Hello all,
First, I would like to thank you very much for your time.
I am having some issues with the installation of VPython on Fedora 11
(64 bit).
So that you know what I have done so far, I have installed
gtkglextmm-devel and libglademm24-devel, as well as tkinter, so I don't
believe I am running into issues due to dependencies. I also added '#
include <boost/type_traits/add_reference.hpp>' in
/usr/include/boost/python/detail/translate_exception.hpp as prescribed.
I also made the soft link from libboost_thread-mt.so.1.37.0 to
libboost_thread.so in /usr/lib64 so that make could link properly (it
might be helpful to add this to INSTALL.txt).
In order to get VPython to properly compile, I had to make this change
in Makefile and src/Makefile: In the definition of PYTHON_INCLUDES,
'${prefix}/lib' was changed to '/usr/lib64/'. Without this change, make
did not know where to search for numpy.
Additionally, in Makefile, at line 305, I had to unindent the line
"@list='$(bin_SCRIPTS)'; for p in $$list; do \" in the definition of
install_binSCRIPTS. I'm not really sure why this was necessary (it was
stumbled upon by accident), but without this there was an error in the
final step of installation, around where it prints 'test -z
"/amphome/smm553/.vpython/bin" || mkdir -p --
"/amphome/smm553/.vpython/bin"' to the screen.
When we were still running Fedora 10, VPython installed and ran fine
after making these changes. However, now that we have upgraded to
Fedora 11, VPython appears to install properly, but when I try to run a
script I get this error:
VPython ***CRITICAL ERROR***:
../../Download/applications/visual-5.12_release/src/gtk2/render_surface.cpp:88:
render_surface: failed to initialize any OpenGL configuration, Aborting.
The only thing that I can see that is different between Fedora 10 and 11
here is that the boost library that I had to link to in Fedora 10 was
libboost_thread-mt.so.1.34.0, not libboost_thread-mt.so.1.37.0. I have
also tried installing VPython using the Fedora 11 rpm from this link:
http://www.users.csbsju.edu/~jcross/vpython/. Again, it successfully
installs but gives the same error at run time as when I install from
source.
Is this an error that anyone has seen before? If so, what can I do to
get VPython to run?
Thank you for your time.
Seth Morton
Chemistry Graduate Student, Penn State University
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