[vtkusers] Documented examples and Installation on RedHat 7.0

[Jan Vittrup Hansen]

regarding 2)

 It seems you haven't installed the svgalib package

  regards, Jan...

On Mon, 30 Apr 2001, John Wilson wrote:
> A couple questions from a VTK newbie:
> 
> 1. There are an amazing number of examples included with the VTK package,
> but for a newbie the lack of documentation in these examples makes them at
> times difficult to use.  Also, the VTK class documentation itself can be
> rather brief in its descriptions.  Does anyone know of other sources of
> documentation and (fully documented) simple examples that may help?
> Specifically, I am developing using Tcl.
> 
> 2. I need to install VTK on a RedHat 7.0 system; I tried using the RPMs
> found on the CD provided with "The VTK User's Guide" and ran into a problem
> when installing the Tcl, Java, and Python packages.  Specifically, my
> command was:
> 
> rpm -ivh vtk-tcl-3.2-3.i386.rpm
> 
> and I got the following error:
> 
> error: failed dependencies:
>    libvga.so.1 is needed by vtk-tcl-3.2-3
> 
> So this VGA library must not be on my system.  Has anyone else experienced
> this and know the solution?
> 
> Many thanks for the help -
> 
> John
> 
> 
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