[Paraview] installation problem on ubuntu 10.04

[Michael Wild]

On 09/11/2011 06:26 AM, Alessandro Comunian wrote:
> 2011/9/9 Alessandro Comunian :
>> 2011/9/8 Michael:
>>> On Thu 08 Sep 2011 02:17:20 PM CEST, Alessandro wrote:
>>>> Hello,
>>>>
>>>> I am trying to install ParaView from the sources, but the make process
>>>> stops with the following message:
>>>>
>>>> ===================================================================
>>>>
>>>> [  8%] Building CXX object
>>>> VTK/Utilities/Cosmo/CMakeFiles/Cosmo.dir/SODHalo.cxx.o
>>>> Linking CXX shared library ../../../bin/libCosmo.so
>>>> [  8%] Built target Cosmo
>>>> [  8%] Building CXX object
>>>> VTK/Utilities/ftgl/CMakeFiles/vtkftgl.dir/src/FTBitmapGlyph.cpp.o
>>>> [ ... ]
>>>> [  8%] Building CXX object
>>>> VTK/Utilities/ftgl/CMakeFiles/vtkftgl.dir/src/FTSize.cpp.o
>>>> make[2]: *** No rule to make target `/usr/lib/libGL.so', needed by
>>>> `bin/libvtkftgl.so.pv3.10'.  Stop.
>>>> make[1]: *** [VTK/Utilities/ftgl/CMakeFiles/vtkftgl.dir/all] Error 2
>>>> make: *** [all] Error 2
>>>>
>>>> ===================================================================
>>>>
>>>> Do you have some suggestion about how to investigate and solve the
>>>> problem please?
>>>> Thank you in advance,
>>>> Bests,
>>>>
>>>> Alessandro
>>>
>>>
>>> Install the libgl1-mesa-dev package, it contains /usr/lib/libGL.so.
>>> Finding out things like this is very easy with apt-file:
>>>
>>> sudo apt-get install apt-file
>>> sudo apt-file update
>>> apt-file search /usr/lib/libGL.so
>>>
>>> Michael
>>>
>>
>> Thank you Michael, apt-file is a really useful package...
>> still, the library "libGL.so" and the package "libgl1-mesa-dev" was
>> already installed in my system (cmake automatically recognize it and
>> associate it to the variable OPENGL_gl_LIBRARY).
>> I had a look into the file "CMakeError.log" but without succes... any
>> other suggestion?
>> Bests,
>>
>> Alessandro
>>
> 
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I have solved the problem installing:
> 1) the proprietary drivers proposed by ubuntu (System ->
> Administration -> Hardware Drivers)
> 2) replaced then by a driver downloaded directly from the nvidia site.
> 
> I am not sure, but probably if you install directly (and only) the
> nvidia drivers proposed by the vendor and you ignore the suggestions
> of "ubuntu" (because actually you have already installed the drivers
> directly from the vendor), then there is some lacking library or some
> incompatibility which is difficult to detect..
> 
> Bests,
> 
> Alessandro

Glad you found the issue.

Michael