[vtk-developers] Fwd: VTK7 debian packages for Ubuntu 16.04

Sat Feb 4 14:45:56 EST 2017

2017-02-04 10:56 GMT+01:00 Nico Schlömer <nico.schloemer at gmail.com>:

> So I sat down last night an packaged the thing with Python 3 support. If
> you're running on zesty ;), you can try it out [1]. Might or might not make
> it into Debian/Ubuntu.
>

Really nice! Good that you posted to debian-science@ as well. Lets hope
that in the end this could make it into an official release.

Our product is currently based on Xenial, because of its LTS status (among
other things), but sooner or later we'll bump the Ubuntu version. So it's
very nice that you took this effort. I might even try to take your
packaging and shoehorn it to work on Xenial, since the internal packaging
we're using now is quite crude (one big jumbo binary package).

Elvis

> Cheers,
> Nico
>
> [1] https://launchpad.net/~nschloe/+archive/ubuntu/vtk7-nightly
>
> On Tue, Sep 20, 2016 at 4:42 PM Elvis Stansvik <
> elvis.stansvik at orexplore.com> wrote:
>
>> 2016-09-20 16:29 GMT+02:00 Francisco Perez Salgado <f.perez475 at gmail.com
>> >:
>> > Hi Elvis,
>> >
>> > thank you very much for the info. Yes I saw your package searching in
>> > Google; actually I'm using that one but I just wanted to know if it
>> would be
>> > official support from vtk.
>>
>> Ah. I don't think Kitware ever produced Ubuntu packages of VTK of
>> that's what you mean.
>>
>> What's needed now is Debian packagers willing to take on the work of
>> making a package.
>>
>> It's quite a bit more work to create a package that follows all the
>> Debian packaging standards (so that it can be accepted into official
>> repositories). With the package I did I took a lot of shortcuts so to
>> speak.
>>
>> > Again thank you very much, your package is very useful.
>>
>> Glad it could help some.
>>
>> Elvis
>>
>> >
>> > Regards,
>> > Fran.
>> >
>> > El 20/09/2016 16:23, "Elvis Stansvik" <elvis.stansvik at orexplore.com>
>> > escribió:
>> >>
>> >> 2016-09-20 14:52 GMT+02:00 Francisco Perez Salgado <
>> f.perez475 at gmail.com>:
>> >> > Yep I saw that, but my question is: can I install the package via
>> APT?
>> >> > In
>> >> > that case, which repo should I install on my system? Ubuntu 16.04 APT
>> >> > repos
>> >> > only have vtk5 and vtk6 by default. My idea is to install vtk with a
>> >> > simple
>> >> > command like:
>> >> >
>> >> >     apt-get install vtk7 vtk7-dev
>> >> >
>> >> > or something similar. In the worst case scenario, can I generate a
>> .deb
>> >> > package by my own using CPack and upload it to my APT repo?
>> >>
>> >> Hi Francisco,
>> >>
>> >> As you can see in the bug report linked by Mathieu, Ghislain (package
>> >> maintainer) has withdrawn his intention to package VTK 7 :( I didn't
>> >> know this (I was in contact with Ghislain a few months ago, asking
>> >> what the progress was).
>> >>
>> >> As we needed packages of VTK 7 for work (where we use Kubuntu 16.04).
>> >> I made a single VTK 7 package and uploaded it to this PPA:
>> >>
>> >>     https://launchpad.net/~elvstone/+archive/ubuntu/vtk7
>> >>
>> >> You can add the repository and install the package with:
>> >>
>> >>     sudo add-apt-repository ppa:elvstone/vtk7
>> >>     sudo apt-get update
>> >>     sudo apt-get install vtk7
>> >>
>> >> But note that:
>> >>
>> >>     1) This VTK build might not be configured exactly like you want
>> >> (see the PPA for what CMake options I used).
>> >>     2) I'm not updating the PPA anymore as we've switched to using an
>> >> internal APT repo, feel free take my package and make your own.
>> >>     3) The package does not follow Debian packaging policies, e.g:
>> >>         - It installs everything to /opt/VTK-7.0.0 (to not conflict
>> >> with VTK 6 packages from main repos)
>> >>         - It's one single package (no split -dev packages)
>> >>
>> >> Regarding Python, this package has Python 3 bindings (though since I
>> >> made the package, we've switched to C++ here at work).
>> >>
>> >> Hope this PPA can be of use until someone steps up to do a proper
>> >> Debian packaging of VTK 7.
>> >>
>> >> Cheers,
>> >> Elvis
>> >>
>> >> >
>> >> > Thanks for the quick response.
>> >> > Fran.
>> >> >
>> >> > 2016-09-20 14:13 GMT+02:00 Mathieu Malaterre
>> >> > <mathieu.malaterre at gmail.com>:
>> >> >>
>> >> >> On Tue, Sep 20, 2016 at 1:21 PM, Francisco Perez Salgado
>> >> >> <f.perez475 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >> >> > Hi,
>> >> >> >
>> >> >> > I wanted to know if there will be available debian packages (both
>> >> >> > runtime
>> >> >> > and develop packages) for Ubuntu 16.04 (Xenial) soon. The goal is
>> to
>> >> >> > install
>> >> >> > VTK through apt repositories instead from source code. I think it
>> >> >> > would
>> >> >> > be
>> >> >> > so useful for final users.
>> >> >>
>> >> >> See:
>> >> >>
>> >> >> https://bugs.debian.org/810254
>> >> >>
>> >> >> 2cts
>> >> >
>> >> >
>> >> >
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