[vtkusers] My personal VTK package for Ubuntu 16.04

[Elvis Stansvik]

2017-04-19 7:54 GMT+02:00 Elvis Stansvik <elvis.stansvik at orexplore.com>:
> 2017-04-18 16:20 GMT+02:00 Nico Schlömer <nico.schloemer at gmail.com>:
>> I've pushed a proper VTK7 update to the Debian repos [1]. It's also
>> available on a PPA [2] for Ubuntu 17.04. Chime in on the bug report [3] if
>> you like.
>
> That's fantastic news Nico. Great work!
>
> I just wish I had Zesty so I could give it a spin, but it looks like
> you've done a very thorough job.
>
> Just one thing: I would suggest adding
> -DModule_vtkRenderingFreeTypeFontConfig=ON to bring in the fontconfig
> module. Without it, it's impossible to use system fonts through
> fontconfig, short of figuring out the font file paths on your own.

My bad, seems the module is part of your package after all. Sorry for the noise.

I think what made me have to specify that flag was that I was turning
off some things at group level.

Elvis

>
> Again, many thanks for doing this work. Now my crazy dream would be an
> SRU to Xenial as well, but I guess that's not on the map.
>
> Elvis
>
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Nico
>>
>> [1] https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/debian-science/packages/vtk6.git
>> [2] https://launchpad.net/~nschloe/+archive/ubuntu/vtk7
>> [3] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=810254
>>
>> On Thu, May 26, 2016 at 8:19 AM Elvis Stansvik
>> <elvis.stansvik at orexplore.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> 2016-05-26 7:55 GMT+02:00 Elvis Stansvik <elvis.stansvik at orexplore.com>:
>>>>
>>>> In case anyone is in need of a VTK 7.0.0 package for Ubuntu 16.04:
>>>>
>>>>     https://launchpad.net/~elvstone/+archive/ubuntu/vtk7
>>>>
>>>> It's a "jumbo" package that installs everything to /opt/VTK-7.0.0. It
>>>> also only includes the Python wrappers.
>>>
>>>
>>> To clarify: It doesn't install everything from VTK. In fact, it excludes
>>> quite a lot (such as the Web module). With "jumbo" I just meant that it's a
>>> single package vtk7, not split into various packages like normal Debian
>>> packaging mandates.
>>>
>>> Elvis
>>>
>>>>
>>>> Very unofficial, and very much untested at this point since I only built
>>>> it last night.
>>>>
>>>> Cheers,
>>>> Elvis
>>>
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