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[Visualpython-users] New installer under Debian

[Shaun P. <Sha...@an...>]

I have recently shifted jobs and have a debian install on my desktop. I 
have't been able to get VPython working on my machine so I was happy to 
try the new installer this morning. This is what I discovered.

I am running debian with a 2.4.19 kernel on a Dell Optiplex GX260
Downloaded the package OK. Unzipped and untarred it fine.
First important problem apt-get install libgtkgl5 does not work as the 
package doesn't exist. Attempts at finding other install servers that 
might have it were unsuccesful. No matter, I just plowed ahead.
./configure --prefix=/usr/local blew up when looking for gtk+ > 1.0
This was caused by the missing gtk-config program
Needed to load the gtk1.2lib-dev package which I found using dselect
Then it complained about gtkglarea not being installed, so I ran dselect 
and installed every package connected with gtkglarea
Still complained about gtkglarea not being installed
Needed to install mesa support, which I would have assumed came with the 
standard debian install but clearly did not in my case.
Again I used dselect to find a mesa package
./configure --prefix=/usr/local now worked fine
make install then ran without a hitch, if you ignore all the deprecated 
warning messages
Tested that idle ran and that little balls bounced around. Woo Hoo!

Re: [Visualpython-users] New installer under Debian

[Bruce S. <bas...@un...>]

Many thanks for the detailed feedback -- it's just the kind of data we need
to improve the installer. One thing seems quite odd: You couldn't install
gtkglarea, which is needed, yet you eventually managed to compile anyway. I
wouldn't have thought that mesa would include the missing piece....

Bruce Sherwood

----- Original Message -----
From: "Shaun Press" <Sha...@an...>
To: "vpusers" <vis...@li...>
Sent: Tuesday, April 15, 2003 11:23 AM
Subject: [Visualpython-users] New installer under Debian


> I have recently shifted jobs and have a debian install on my desktop. I
> have't been able to get VPython working on my machine so I was happy to
> try the new installer this morning. This is what I discovered.
>
> I am running debian with a 2.4.19 kernel on a Dell Optiplex GX260
> Downloaded the package OK. Unzipped and untarred it fine.
> First important problem apt-get install libgtkgl5 does not work as the
> package doesn't exist. Attempts at finding other install servers that
> might have it were unsuccesful. No matter, I just plowed ahead.
> ./configure --prefix=/usr/local blew up when looking for gtk+ > 1.0
> This was caused by the missing gtk-config program
> Needed to load the gtk1.2lib-dev package which I found using dselect
> Then it complained about gtkglarea not being installed, so I ran dselect
> and installed every package connected with gtkglarea
> Still complained about gtkglarea not being installed
> Needed to install mesa support, which I would have assumed came with the
> standard debian install but clearly did not in my case.
> Again I used dselect to find a mesa package
> ./configure --prefix=/usr/local now worked fine
> make install then ran without a hitch, if you ignore all the deprecated
> warning messages
> Tested that idle ran and that little balls bounced around. Woo Hoo!
>
>
>
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Re: [Visualpython-users] New installer under Debian

[Shaun P. <Sha...@an...>]

Bruce Sherwood wrote:

>Many thanks for the detailed feedback -- it's just the kind of data we need
>to improve the installer. One thing seems quite odd: You couldn't install
>gtkglarea, which is needed, yet you eventually managed to compile anyway. I
>wouldn't have thought that mesa would include the missing piece....
>
>Bruce Sherwood
>
>  
>
To make it clearer. I installed gtkglarea both using apt-get and also by 
downloading it as a seperate deb package and installing it using dpkg -i
The problem was the configure script was still claiming it hadn't beeen 
installed. But on investigation of the configure file I think that this 
error message may be misleading and instead was triggered by mesa not 
being installed. Installing the mesa packages enables the configure 
script to complete normally. This may indicate a problem in the 
configure script rather than packages really being missing.

Re: [Visualpython-users] New installer under Debian

[Jonathan B. <jbr...@ea...>]

On Wed, 2003-04-16 at 05:21, Shaun Press wrote:
> Bruce Sherwood wrote:
> 
> >Many thanks for the detailed feedback -- it's just the kind of data we need
> >to improve the installer. One thing seems quite odd: You couldn't install
> >gtkglarea, which is needed, yet you eventually managed to compile anyway. I
> >wouldn't have thought that mesa would include the missing piece....
> >
> >Bruce Sherwood
> >
> >  
> >
> To make it clearer. I installed gtkglarea both using apt-get and also by 
> downloading it as a seperate deb package and installing it using dpkg -i
> The problem was the configure script was still claiming it hadn't beeen 
> installed. But on investigation of the configure file I think that this 
> error message may be misleading and instead was triggered by mesa not 
> being installed. Installing the mesa packages enables the configure 
> script to complete normally. This may indicate a problem in the 
> configure script rather than packages really being missing.


I had the wrong required packages listed.  They are:
gtkglarea5-dev
python2.2-dev
python2.2-numeric

The gtkglarea5 package should automatically bring in a GL library if you
still need one, from one of 5 choices, all of which include libGL and
libGLU.

The configure test for GtkGLarea is the one provided by the library
author, and consists of link tests for libGL + libGLU or libMesaGL +
libMesaGLU if it cannot find libGL (without and with pthreads for
each).  Can you send me the log file that included the errors?

-Jonathan Brandmeyer 

http://packages.debian.org/stable/libs/gtkglarea5.html