[Nottingham] Introduction

[Louise Brown]

Hi,

That's fantastic!  I got it to build the core with the swig and python interface but ground to a halt with the VTK.  Reading your mail I can see why!  I know that the guy working on the project before me had the full GUI working in Ubuntu but, as you've probably seen, there's nothing in the Build From Source section of the website about getting the VTK and wxWidgets sections of the code working in Unix.

If you get it working I'd be really grateful if you could let me know how you did it.  I'm on a very steep learning curve with all of this so your efforts are much appreciated.  There's a guy in my office who's been trying to get TexGen working in Suse and also ground to a halt at the VTK stage.  He's in the USA for a couple of months at the moment so there's no panic but it would be nice to get him up and running when he gets back.

Thanks very much - glad I de-lurked!
Louise

-----Original Message-----
From: nottingham-bounces at mailman.lug.org.uk [mailto:nottingham-bounces at mailman.lug.org.uk] On Behalf Of TJ
Sent: 27 April 2010 09:33
To: Notts GNU/Linux Users Group
Subject: Re: [Nottingham] Introduction

On Mon, 2010-04-26 at 15:11 +0100, Louise Brown wrote:
> 
> I joined the group about a week or so ago and have been lurking so I
> thought I’d introduce myself.
> 

I know that lurking feeling... hello *waves* :)


> I’ve recently started using Linux (Ubuntu) having started a new job in
> December last year.  I’m working on a cross-platform software project,
> TexGen http://texgen.sourceforge.net  I’ve been making a bit of
> headway with the Linux build for the project but it’s very much a case
> of feeling my way along (my predecessor left about a year before I
> started ).  

I'm currently packaging TexGen 3.3.2 for Debian (unstable) and Ubuntu
(Lucid+).

There's a slightly hold-up since Ubuntu Lucid only carries VTK 5.2.1
whereas TexGen needs 5.4+ so I've had to import that from Debian, fix
some FTBFS bugs, and push it to my Ubuntu PPA.  There look to be some
issues with the Debian package not bothering to install some files built
by VTK which I'll need to investigate.

Locally, I can now get quite a way a long way through the build process
with TexGen so I'm guessing I may have it in my PPA by next week.

Once its been checked out by users maybe its worth you taking over the
package so that all Debian/Ubuntu users can get it from the archives?





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