Re: scidavis

[Christopher Svanefalk <christopher.svanefalk@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Mar 8, 2013 at 9:59 PM, Patrick Dupre <Patrick.Dupre@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hello,

I received comments about installing packages not built for fedora.
Is it an acceptable comment?

Example.
I would like to install scidavis. Unfortunately, yum install scidavis
fails: No package scidavis available
What are the other options?
1) scidavis is available for fedora 14 (and 15?), but not for newest versions:
fedora 16 shown up last year!
2) try to find a binary distribution for linux, like
scidavis-0.2.4-linux-x86-qt4.4-py2.5.tar.bz2
supposed to work opn fedora:
(see http://scidavis.sourceforge.net/download.html).
but then:
./scidavis: error while loading shared libraries: libpython2.5.so.1.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
fedora 18 provides: libpython2.7.so.1.0.
3) from the sources: scidavis-0.2.4.tar.bz2
but the compilation fails:

cd scidavis/ && make -f Makefile
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/misc/scidavis/scidavis-0.2.4/scidavis'
g++ -c -pipe -O2 -g -pipe -Wall -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fstack-protector --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -m64 -mtune=generic -O2 -D_REENTRANT -Wall -W -DSCRIPTING_CONSOLE -DSCRIPTING_DIALOG -DDYNAMIC_MANUAL_PATH -DSCRIPTING_MUPARSER -DPYTHON_CONFIG_PATH=\"/etc\" -DPYTHON_UTIL_PATH=\"/usr/share/scidavis\" -DSCRIPTING_PYTHON -DQT_PLUGIN -DTS_PATH=\"/usr/share/scidavis/translations\" -DDOC_PATH=\"/usr/share/doc/scidavis\" -DLEGACY_CODE_0_2_x -DQT_NO_DEBUG -DQT_SVG_LIB -DQT_QT3SUPPORT_LIB -DQT3_SUPPORT -DQT_XML_LIB -DQT_OPENGL_LIB -DQT_GUI_LIB -DQT_NETWORK_LIB -DQT_CORE_LIB -DQT_SHARED -I/usr/lib64/qt4/mkspecs/linux-g++ -I. -I/usr/include/QtCore -I/usr/include/QtNetwork -I/usr/include/QtGui -I/usr/include/QtOpenGL -I/usr/include/QtXml -I/usr/include/Qt3Support -I/usr/include/QtSvg -I/usr/include -I/usr/include/python2.7 -I/usr/include/python2.7 -I../3rdparty/qwtplot3d/include -I../3rdparty/qwt/src -I/usr/include/muParser -Isrc -Isrc/future -I/usr/X11R6/include -I/usr/src/misc/scidavis/scidavis-0.2.4/tmp/scidavis -I. -o ../tmp/scidavis/MuParserScript.o src/MuParserScript.cpp
In file included from src/Table.h:39:0,
                 from src/MuParserScript.cpp:36:
src/Graph.h:39:22: fatal error: qwt_plot.h: No such file or directory
compilation terminated.
make[1]: *** [../tmp/scidavis/MuParserScript.o] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/misc/scidavis/scidavis-0.2.4/scidavis'
make: *** [sub-scidavis-make_default] Error 2


while qwt_plot.h  is in /usr/include/qwt/qwt_plot.h or /usr/include/qwt5-qt4/qwt_plot.h


My impression is that people should make some efforts to offer only a few numbers of distributions
and collaborate to offer a nice and polished distribution!
Do not insult me for my point of view.

Regards.


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Hi Patrick,

packages are maintained by groups/individuals who are not necessarily affiliated with Red Hat or the Fedora project itself. If they decide to stop supporting a package, then that package will most  likely be dropped from the repository for the next Fedora release. 

I looked into your problem with Scidavis, and managed to solve it like this:

1. Fetch and install the muParser-1.32 (1.34 causes Scidavis to crash) from here:
http://rpm.pbone.net/index.php3/stat/4/idpl/17343337/dir/fedora_16/com/muParser-1.32-2.fc15.x86_64.rpm.html

2. Fetch the last available RPM for Scidavis here:
http://rpm.pbone.net/index.php3/stat/4/idpl/15927176/dir/fedora_15/com/scidavis-0.2.4-4.fc14.x86_64.rpm.html  

Install both packages (in the same order you downloaded them) by using yum localinstall <package_name>. 

Worked on my machine at least...I am running F17 but I can't imagine you would have trouble on F18.

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