dificulties running vtk from nightly rpms in Mandrake 7.0

[David Gobbi]

Hi Jose,

I haven't ever tried using the VTK RPMs, but usually when the libraries
are there but the run-time linker says there not, all you have to do
to fix the problem is run '/sbin/ldconfig' as root.

If this doesn't work, then /usr/local/lib probably isn't in your
/etc/ld.so.conf file.  You can add it yourself as root with your
favorite text editor.  It would be nice if the VTK RPMs checked
for this automatically... I hope that they run /sbin/ldconfig
automatically at the very least.


Just to share my opinion on the issue, I don't like it when RPMS
install things in /usr/local... I want /usr/local to be for programs
that I build myself, and have RPMs confine themselves to /usr.  Just
my opinion, though.  Even worse, on many computer networks /usr/local
is a network drive, not a local drive, and having RPMS try to install
there really screws things up.

 - David

--
  David Gobbi, MSc                    dgobbi at irus.rri.on.ca
  Advanced Imaging Research Group
  Robarts Research Institute, University of Western Ontario

On Mon, 20 Mar 2000, Jose C. Miranda wrote:

> 
> 	Dear vtkers,
> 
> 	I just installed Mandrake 7.0 over the weekend and I'am
> having some problems running vtk with tcl (Mandrake 7.0 installs
> tcl/tk 8.0.5-13). 
> 
> I installed vtk using the nightly vtk-3.1-461 rpms (vtk-3.1-461.i386 and
> vtk-examples-3.1-461.i386 and vtk-tcl-3.1-461.i386). After installing
> them, when I try to run any *.tcl example I got the following
> msg: 
> 
> vtk: error in loading shared libraries: libVTKContribTcl.so: 
> cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
> 
> 	But it seems to me that all the libraries are in their place:
> 
> contents in usr/local/lib 
> 
> libVTKCommon.so*      libVTKGraphics.so*     libVTKPatented.so*
> libVTKCommonTcl.so*   libVTKGraphicsTcl.so*  libVTKPatentedTcl.so*
> libVTKContrib.so*     libVTKImaging.so*      vtk/
> libVTKContribTcl.so*  libVTKImagingTcl.so*
> 	
> 	
> 	Any ideas?  Any help would be deeply appreciated.
> 	Thanks.  
> 	
> 	Jose C.
> 
> Jose C. Miranda
> jmiranda at wessex.ac.uk
> 
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