I upgraded to Ubuntu 7.10. I was shown a sizable list of "obsolete"
files that would be deleted, including various boost 1.33 and 1.34
files, which I accepted, although these are needed by Visual. After the
upgrade I tried running VPython and got an error message that a boost
file was missing, which wasn't surprising. I went to the package
manager, found "python-visual", and successfully installed it. However,
it's pretty old: 3.1.1; the current production version is 3.2.9. I don't
know who builds Ubuntu packages, or how they decide what version of an
application to package.
I tried building Visual 3.2.9 (the production version for Linux
available at vpython.org) but in the configure phase was told there was
a problem with pkg-config for gtk+; the error message is "sh:
gtk-config: not found", which I don't understand.
Bruce Sherwood
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