Thread: [Visualpython-users] Building vpython 5.4 in Ubuntu 10.10

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[Visualpython-users] Building vpython 5.4 in Ubuntu 10.10

From: Patrick S. <pat...@gm...> - 2011-01-15 03:27:57

I tried building visual python 5.4 following the directions in the
INSTALL.txt file.  I made a directory at the same level as the
"visual-5.4_release" source directory and ran configure and make.
Everything seems to work fine, and the cvisualmodule.so file is
generated.  

The only thing I'm confused about is that running "make install" just
copies the cvisualmodule.so file back into the visual-5.4_release
directory.  I'm just not sure which files I am supposed to move where to
be able to use vpython.  I tried just copying the whole
"visual-5.5_release/site-packages" directory into
"/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages" (making sure it was in python's
search path), but I'm not able to load visual.  Doing "import visual"
gives the error:

ImportError: cannot import name cvisual

cvisualmodule.so is in the /usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/visual
directory, but it apparently can't be imported.  If anyone can help me
figure out what's wrong I'd greatly appreciate it.  Thanks.

Re: [Visualpython-users] Building vpython 5.4 in Ubuntu 10.10

From: Bruce S. <Bru...@nc...> - 2011-01-15 06:29:41

You need to execute "sudo make install" to move the various components
into the right places. For cleanliness, it would be a good idea first
to remove the Visual stuff from site-packages.

Also, because site-packages is no longer (alas) on the Ubuntu Python
module search path, you need to follow these instructions in
INSTALL.txt:

       You will also need to copy vpython-core2/src/gtk2/site-packages.pth to
       /usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages to put /usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages
       on the Python search path.

You will have to adjust the contents of site-packages.pth text file if
you are installing to /usr/lib rather than /usr/local.

Hope this helps!

Bruce Sherwood

On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 8:27 PM, Patrick Shea
<pat...@gm...> wrote:
> I tried building visual python 5.4 following the directions in the
> INSTALL.txt file.  I made a directory at the same level as the
> "visual-5.4_release" source directory and ran configure and make.
> Everything seems to work fine, and the cvisualmodule.so file is
> generated.
>
> The only thing I'm confused about is that running "make install" just
> copies the cvisualmodule.so file back into the visual-5.4_release
> directory.  I'm just not sure which files I am supposed to move where to
> be able to use vpython.  I tried just copying the whole
> "visual-5.5_release/site-packages" directory into
> "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages" (making sure it was in python's
> search path), but I'm not able to load visual.  Doing "import visual"
> gives the error:
>
> ImportError: cannot import name cvisual
>
> cvisualmodule.so is in the /usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/visual
> directory, but it apparently can't be imported.  If anyone can help me
> figure out what's wrong I'd greatly appreciate it.  Thanks.
>
>
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Re: [Visualpython-users] Building vpython 5.4 in Ubuntu 10.10

From: Patrick S. <pat...@gm...> - 2011-01-15 16:16:54

Thanks for your reply!  Unfortunately, for me running sudo make install
just copies the cvisualmodule.so file
to ../visual-5.4_release/site-packages/visual/cvisualmodule.so.  Here's
what I did in detail:

1. Make a directory on the same level as the source directory, and copy
visual-5.4_release/src/gtk2/makefile into it. (I also had to edit a
couple of things in the makefile: I changed the name of the source
directory to visual-5.4_release from vpython-core2, and changed the
-lboost_python-mt flags to -lboost_python-mt-py26, since that's how the
libraries are named in Ubuntu)

2. I ran configure from the newly created directory with the makefile in
it, with the --prefix=/usr argument.

3. Ran make from the same directory

4.  Then when I run sudo make install, it just says 
cp cvisualmodule.so ../visual-5.4_release/site-packages/visual,
and nothing gets copied into /usr/lib/python2.6

Thanks for your help,
Patrick

On Fri, 2011-01-14 at 23:29 -0700, Bruce Sherwood wrote:
> You need to execute "sudo make install" to move the various components
> into the right places. For cleanliness, it would be a good idea first
> to remove the Visual stuff from site-packages.
> 
> Also, because site-packages is no longer (alas) on the Ubuntu Python
> module search path, you need to follow these instructions in
> INSTALL.txt:
> 
>        You will also need to copy vpython-core2/src/gtk2/site-packages.pth to
>        /usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages to put /usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages
>        on the Python search path.
> 
> You will have to adjust the contents of site-packages.pth text file if
> you are installing to /usr/lib rather than /usr/local.
> 
> Hope this helps!
> 
> Bruce Sherwood
> 
> On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 8:27 PM, Patrick Shea
> <pat...@gm...> wrote:
> > I tried building visual python 5.4 following the directions in the
> > INSTALL.txt file.  I made a directory at the same level as the
> > "visual-5.4_release" source directory and ran configure and make.
> > Everything seems to work fine, and the cvisualmodule.so file is
> > generated.
> >
> > The only thing I'm confused about is that running "make install" just
> > copies the cvisualmodule.so file back into the visual-5.4_release
> > directory.  I'm just not sure which files I am supposed to move where to
> > be able to use vpython.  I tried just copying the whole
> > "visual-5.5_release/site-packages" directory into
> > "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages" (making sure it was in python's
> > search path), but I'm not able to load visual.  Doing "import visual"
> > gives the error:
> >
> > ImportError: cannot import name cvisual
> >
> > cvisualmodule.so is in the /usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/visual
> > directory, but it apparently can't be imported.  If anyone can help me
> > figure out what's wrong I'd greatly appreciate it.  Thanks.
> >
> >
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