[vtkusers] Still having difficulties installing vtk

[Tore Aurstad]

Well,now I finally got Debian 3.0 up, i had problems getting
my nic card up, and apt-get should help me out nicely as it
looks from here. I find debian packages for all my needed
programs, so hopefully I can install VTK directly from such packages.

(apt-cache search <package> reveals them all).

I also think the main reason is that VTK is not working FC3
is that FC3 uses Xorg and FC2 uses XFree86.

Let's hope that FC4 (future fedora projects) will make it simpler
to install VTK.

Tore Aurstad
Norway


Sitat "Steve M. Robbins" <steven.robbins at videotron.ca>:

> Hi Tore,
>
> I'm using FC2, not FC3, so I can't answer your specific question.
>
> However, it's not clear whether you're starting off from a clean VTK
> directory or re-using an old one.  If it's the second case, it's
> worth
> trying a completely fresh unpacking of the VTK sources as there might
> be partially-built sources that aren't getting recompiled.
>
>
> On Sun, Feb 13, 2005 at 05:11:00PM -0500, Tore Aurstad wrote:
> > Hi, I recently updated from Fedora Core 2 to Fedora Core 3.
> >
> > The FC3 uses xorg and not xfree86 as wm. When I try to install I
> > get an error with libvtkRendering.so and it cannot find the
> > X11ext symbols necessary.
>
> That's a bit vague.

> See http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
>
> Be sure you have the correct -devel package for libXext.  Then
> pick one of the missing symbols and go looking for it in the X11
> libraries.  Google might help; look through the source if you have
> to.
>
> > If anybody has managed to install VTK on FC3 that would be nice to
> hear,
> > or else I must try another distribution of Linux (again..)
>
> Or revert to FC2, since it definitely works there. ;-)
>
> Good Luck!
>
> -Steve
>