[Fwd: Re: SCIGRAPHICA 2.x DOES NOT INSTALL - PLEASE POST PROPER INSTALL INSTRUCTIONS!!!!!]
Andor J Kiss <[email protected]> Thu, 29 Jun 2006 08:00:54 -0400
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.scigraphica.devel |
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| Organization | AROK |
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--===============0157938606== Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="=-ugGqYGwgVXyZH1nIBkDv" --=-ugGqYGwgVXyZH1nIBkDv Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > Hi, > > Thanks Samuel, - I'm leaning towards your suggestion. I actually > solved this problem after many frustrating hours. However, NEW > install problems have appeared. > > Here are some concrete suggestions for the developers for SciGraphica: > > 1) Provide detailed, clear installation instructions on the > SciGraphica website. Assume those implementing SciGraphica are not > programmers, but scientists - take for example. myself. I use UBUNTU > because there are some scientific programmes (originally written for > the human genome project) that require LINUX. Ubuntu's philosophy is > "it just works". SciGraphica could learn from this philosophy. > > 2) PLEASE BUILD Debian (*.deb) and Fedora (*.rpm) installer packages > of the latest builds. Manually installing "by hand" is difficult and > cumbersome. > > 3) Work with the major distros of Linux (Ubuntu, SuSE, Fedora) to make > Scigraphica part of their upgrade/update functions. > > I will continue to use the old 0.8.0 version that comes as part of the > Ubuntu packages. However, I will abandon attempts to use the new > version (2.x).of SciGraphica until a Debian installer package is > provided. > > Good Luck, > Andor > > On Thu, 2006-06-29 at 09:09 +0200, Samuel Verstraete wrote: > > > Hi Andor... > > > > I seriously doubt if you wanna invest time in this... I have invested > > time in getting SciGraphica to work... but it's so unstable that i have > > to consider all of that time lost... > > > > Do consider qtiplot instead for you scientific graphical plotting. The > > maintainer responds to every question asked and fixes very quickly > > stuff when you encounter problem... > > > > (this is not to shoot SciGraphica in the back or anything but i'm just > > making sure Andor doesn't waste time compiling programs that are > > in a state that makes them unusable... Though i would be very glad if > > the devs of this program could pickup their work again... ) > > > > gr,S. > > > > On Wed, 28 Jun 2006 22:22:51 -0400 > > Andor J Kiss <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > Yet again, another SciGraphica install error: > > > > > > > > > > > > checking for GLIB - version >= 2.5.7... > > > *** 'pkg-config --modversion glib-2.0' returned 2.8.6, but GLIB > > > (2.10.3) *** was found! If pkg-config was correct, then it is best > > > *** to remove the old version of GLib. You may also be able to fix the > > > error > > > *** by modifying your LD_LIBRARY_PATH enviroment variable, or by > > > editing *** /etc/ld.so.conf. Make sure you have run ldconfig if that > > > is *** required on your system. > > > *** If pkg-config was wrong, set the environment variable > > > PKG_CONFIG_PATH > > > *** to point to the correct configuration files > > > no > > > checking for pkg-config... (cached) /usr/bin/pkg-config > > > checking for GLIB - version >= 2.0.0... > > > *** 'pkg-config --modversion glib-2.0' returned 2.8.6, but GLIB > > > (2.10.3) *** was found! If pkg-config was correct, then it is best > > > *** to remove the old version of GLib. You may also be able to fix the > > > error > > > *** by modifying your LD_LIBRARY_PATH enviroment variable, or by > > > editing *** /etc/ld.so.conf. Make sure you have run ldconfig if that > > > is *** required on your system. > > > *** If pkg-config was wrong, set the environment variable > > > PKG_CONFIG_PATH > > > *** to point to the correct configuration files > > > no > > > configure: error: > > > *** GLIB 2.0.0 or better is required. The latest version of > > > *** GLIB is always available from ftp://ftp.gtk.org/. If GLIB is > > > installed > > > *** but not in the same location as pkg-config add the location of the > > > file > > > *** glib-2.0.pc to the environment variable PKG_CONFIG_PATH. > > > > > > Suggestions? > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ______________________________________________________________ > Andor J Kiss > Department of Biological Sciences > 29 East Delaware Avenue > University of Delaware > Newark, Delaware 19716 > USA > > eMAIL: [email protected] > URL: http://www.udel.edu/bio/people/postdoc/akiss.html ______________________________________________________________ Andor J Kiss Department of Biological Sciences 29 East Delaware Avenue University of Delaware Newark, Delaware 19716 USA eMAIL: [email protected] URL: http://www.udel.edu/bio/people/postdoc/akiss.html --=-ugGqYGwgVXyZH1nIBkDv Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 TRANSITIONAL//EN"> <HTML> <HEAD> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; CHARSET=UTF-8"> <META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="GtkHTML/3.10.2"> </HEAD> <BODY> <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE> <FONT COLOR="#000000">Hi,</FONT><BR> <BR> <FONT COLOR="#000000"> Thanks Samuel, - I'm leaning towards your suggestion. I actually solved this problem after many frustrating hours. However, NEW install problems have appeared.</FONT><BR> <BR> <U><FONT COLOR="#000000">Here are some concrete suggestions for the developers for SciGraphica:</FONT></U><BR> <BR> <FONT COLOR="#000000">1) Provide detailed, clear installation instructions </FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000"><I>on the SciGraphica website</I></FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000">. Assume those implementing SciGraphica are not programmers, but scientists - take for example. myself. I use UBUNTU because there are some scientific programmes (originally written for the human genome project) that require LINUX. Ubuntu's philosophy is "it just works". SciGraphica could learn from this philosophy.</FONT><BR> <BR> <FONT COLOR="#000000">2) PLEASE BUILD Debian (*.deb) and Fedora (*.rpm) installer packages of the latest builds. Manually installing "by hand" is difficult and cumbersome. </FONT><BR> <BR> <FONT COLOR="#000000">3) Work with the major distros of Linux (Ubuntu, SuSE, Fedora) to make Scigraphica part of their upgrade/update functions.</FONT><BR> <BR> <FONT COLOR="#000000">I will continue to use the old 0.8.0 version that comes as part of the Ubuntu packages. However, I will abandon attempts to use the new version (2.x).of SciGraphica until a Debian installer package is provided.</FONT><BR> <BR> <FONT COLOR="#000000">Good Luck,</FONT><BR> <FONT COLOR="#000000">Andor</FONT><BR> <BR> <FONT COLOR="#000000">On Thu, 2006-06-29 at 09:09 +0200, Samuel Verstraete wrote: </FONT> <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE> <PRE> <FONT COLOR="#000000">Hi Andor...</FONT> <FONT COLOR="#000000">I seriously doubt if you wanna invest time in this... I have invested</FONT> <FONT COLOR="#000000">time in getting SciGraphica to work... but it's so unstable that i have</FONT> <FONT COLOR="#000000">to consider all of that time lost...</FONT> <FONT COLOR="#000000">Do consider qtiplot instead for you scientific graphical plotting. The</FONT> <FONT COLOR="#000000">maintainer responds to every question asked and fixes very quickly</FONT> <FONT COLOR="#000000">stuff when you encounter problem...</FONT> <FONT COLOR="#000000">(this is not to shoot SciGraphica in the back or anything but i'm just</FONT> <FONT COLOR="#000000">making sure Andor doesn't waste time compiling programs that are</FONT> <FONT COLOR="#000000">in a state that makes them unusable... Though i would be very glad if</FONT> <FONT COLOR="#000000">the devs of this program could pickup their work again... )</FONT> <FONT COLOR="#000000">gr,S.</FONT> <FONT COLOR="#000000">On Wed, 28 Jun 2006 22:22:51 -0400</FONT> <FONT COLOR="#000000">Andor J Kiss <<A HREF="mailto:[email protected]">[email protected]</A>> wrote:</FONT> <FONT COLOR="#000000">> Yet again, another SciGraphica install error:</FONT> <FONT COLOR="#000000">> </FONT> <FONT COLOR="#000000">> </FONT> <FONT COLOR="#000000">> </FONT> <FONT COLOR="#000000">> checking for GLIB - version >= 2.5.7...</FONT> <FONT COLOR="#000000">> *** 'pkg-config --modversion glib-2.0' returned 2.8.6, but GLIB</FONT> <FONT COLOR="#000000">> (2.10.3) *** was found! If pkg-config was correct, then it is best</FONT> <FONT COLOR="#000000">> *** to remove the old version of GLib. You may also be able to fix the</FONT> <FONT COLOR="#000000">> error</FONT> <FONT COLOR="#000000">> *** by modifying your LD_LIBRARY_PATH enviroment variable, or by</FONT> <FONT COLOR="#000000">> editing *** /etc/ld.so.conf. Make sure you have run ldconfig if that</FONT> <FONT COLOR="#000000">> is *** required on your system.</FONT> <FONT COLOR="#000000">> *** If pkg-config was wrong, set the environment variable</FONT> <FONT COLOR="#000000">> PKG_CONFIG_PATH</FONT> <FONT COLOR="#000000">> *** to point to the correct configuration files</FONT> <FONT COLOR="#000000">> no</FONT> <FONT COLOR="#000000">> checking for pkg-config... (cached) /usr/bin/pkg-config</FONT> <FONT COLOR="#000000">> checking for GLIB - version >= 2.0.0...</FONT> <FONT COLOR="#000000">> *** 'pkg-config --modversion glib-2.0' returned 2.8.6, but GLIB</FONT> <FONT COLOR="#000000">> (2.10.3) *** was found! If pkg-config was correct, then it is best</FONT> <FONT COLOR="#000000">> *** to remove the old version of GLib. You may also be able to fix the</FONT> <FONT COLOR="#000000">> error</FONT> <FONT COLOR="#000000">> *** by modifying your LD_LIBRARY_PATH enviroment variable, or by</FONT> <FONT COLOR="#000000">> editing *** /etc/ld.so.conf. Make sure you have run ldconfig if that</FONT> <FONT COLOR="#000000">> is *** required on your system.</FONT> <FONT COLOR="#000000">> *** If pkg-config was wrong, set the environment variable</FONT> <FONT COLOR="#000000">> PKG_CONFIG_PATH</FONT> <FONT COLOR="#000000">> *** to point to the correct configuration files</FONT> <FONT COLOR="#000000">> no</FONT> <FONT COLOR="#000000">> configure: error:</FONT> <FONT COLOR="#000000">> *** GLIB 2.0.0 or better is required. The latest version of</FONT> <FONT COLOR="#000000">> *** GLIB is always available from <A HREF="ftp://ftp.gtk.org/">ftp://ftp.gtk.org/</A>. If GLIB is</FONT> <FONT COLOR="#000000">> installed</FONT> <FONT COLOR="#000000">> *** but not in the same location as pkg-config add the location of the</FONT> <FONT COLOR="#000000">> file</FONT> <FONT COLOR="#000000">> *** glib-2.0.pc to the environment variable PKG_CONFIG_PATH.</FONT> <FONT COLOR="#000000">> </FONT> <FONT COLOR="#000000">> Suggestions?</FONT> <FONT COLOR="#000000">> </FONT> <FONT COLOR="#000000">> </FONT> <FONT COLOR="#000000">> </FONT> <FONT COLOR="#000000">> </FONT> </PRE> </BLOCKQUOTE> <TABLE CELLSPACING="0" CELLPADDING="0" WIDTH="100%"> <TR> <TD> ______________________________________________________________<BR> Andor J Kiss<BR> Department of Biological Sciences<BR> 29 East Delaware Avenue<BR> University of Delaware<BR> Newark, Delaware 19716<BR> USA<BR> <BR> eMAIL: [email protected] <BR> URL: <A HREF="http://www.udel.edu/bio/people/postdoc/akiss.html">http://www.udel.edu/bio/people/postdoc/akiss.html</A> </TD> </TR> </TABLE> </BLOCKQUOTE> <TABLE CELLSPACING="0" CELLPADDING="0" WIDTH="100%"> <TR> <TD> ______________________________________________________________<BR> Andor J Kiss<BR> Department of Biological Sciences<BR> 29 East Delaware Avenue<BR> University of Delaware<BR> Newark, Delaware 19716<BR> USA<BR> <BR> eMAIL: [email protected] <BR> URL: <A HREF="http://www.udel.edu/bio/people/postdoc/akiss.html">http://www.udel.edu/bio/people/postdoc/akiss.html</A> </TD> </TR> </TABLE> </BODY> </HTML> --=-ugGqYGwgVXyZH1nIBkDv-- --===============0157938606== Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Using Tomcat but need to do more? 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