Re: Building vpython 5.4 in Ubuntu 10.10

You need to execute "sudo make install" to move the various components
into the right places. For cleanliness, it would be a good idea first
to remove the Visual stuff from site-packages.

Also, because site-packages is no longer (alas) on the Ubuntu Python
module search path, you need to follow these instructions in
INSTALL.txt:

       You will also need to copy vpython-core2/src/gtk2/site-packages.pth to
       /usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages to put /usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages
       on the Python search path.

You will have to adjust the contents of site-packages.pth text file if
you are installing to /usr/lib rather than /usr/local.

Hope this helps!

Bruce Sherwood

On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 8:27 PM, Patrick Shea
<[email protected]> wrote:
> I tried building visual python 5.4 following the directions in the
> INSTALL.txt file.  I made a directory at the same level as the
> "visual-5.4_release" source directory and ran configure and make.
> Everything seems to work fine, and the cvisualmodule.so file is
> generated.
>
> The only thing I'm confused about is that running "make install" just
> copies the cvisualmodule.so file back into the visual-5.4_release
> directory.  I'm just not sure which files I am supposed to move where to
> be able to use vpython.  I tried just copying the whole
> "visual-5.5_release/site-packages" directory into
> "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages" (making sure it was in python's
> search path), but I'm not able to load visual.  Doing "import visual"
> gives the error:
>
> ImportError: cannot import name cvisual
>
> cvisualmodule.so is in the /usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/visual
> directory, but it apparently can't be imported.  If anyone can help me
> figure out what's wrong I'd greatly appreciate it.  Thanks.
>
>
>
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