I've installed visual 3.1 on my Slackware 10.0 boxes, and gotten it to
work! Here are some tricks I had to use, just in case someone else is
running into problems doing the same on a stock Slackware x86 install.
Please note: this is what I DID. I'm sure there may be a better way to
do it, as I'm still a relative newbie to linux; but this worked.
After a "install everything" Slackware install (from CD):
install gtkglarea
download gtkglarea-1.2.2.tar.gz from Twocows.
$ tar -xzf gtkglarea-1.2.2.tar.gz
$ cd gtkglarea-1.2.2/
$ ./configure
$ make
$ sudo make install
$ make clean
install numarray (successful installation of Numeric on Slackware has
so far eluded me.)
download numarray-1.1.1.tar.gz from SourceForge
$ tar -xzf numarray-1.1.1.tar.gz
$ cd numarray-1.1.1/
$ sudo python setup.py install
get boost-jam
download boost-jam-3.1.10-1-linuxx86.tgz from SourceForge
$ tar -xzf boost-jam...
install boost libraries
download boost_1_32_0.tar.gz from SourceForge
$ tar -xzf boost_1_32...
$ cd boost_1_32_0/
$ sudo ../boost-jam.../bjam -sTOOLS=gcc -sPYTHON_ROOT=/usr \
-sPYTHON_VERSION=2.3 install
At this point, you may want to make a cup of coffee. If you have a
slow machine, start with a coffee-plant seedling.
$ cd /usr/local/lib/
$ sudo ln -s libboost_python-gcc-mt-1_32.so
/usr/local/lib/libboost_python.so
install vpython
Download visual-3.1.0.tar.gz (SourceForge again)
$ tar -xzf visual-3.1.0.tar.gz
$ cd visual-3.1.0/
$ CPPFLAGS=-I/usr/local/include/boost-1_32
$ export CPPFLAGS
$ LDFLAGS=-L/usr/local/lib
$ export LDFLAGS
$ ./configure --prefix=/usr
$ make
$ sudo make install
$ make clean
There are still a couple configuration problems to clean up, though.
For some reason, the vpython startup shell script doesn't know where
things are, yet. I edited it to hard-code the directories:
edit /usr/bin/vpython
change "@visualdemodir@" to
"/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/visual/examples"
change "@visualidledir@" to "/usr/bin"
change "@IDLE@" to "idle"
There is undoubtedly a better way to go about this. Probably I needed
to set something on the configure step of the vpython installation, but
I don't know what and this worked. (Suggestions?)
There is just one more problem, which will show up if (like me) you've
been unable to install Numeric.
The module primitives.py
(/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/visual/primitives.py) still tries to
import Numeric, even after the module(s) that import primitives.py go
through a bit of trouble to determine whether you have Numeric or not.
This should probably be fixed in a future revision: for now I got
around it by changing "Numeric" to "numarray" in line 10 of
primitives.py.
Thanks to Jonathan Brandmeyer for his help, and I hope this summary is
of use to someone...
-EA
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Dr. Eric Ayars
Assistant Professor of Physics
California State University, Chico
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