Re: [Visualpython-users] New installer under Debian

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