<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Mar 8, 2013 at 9:59 PM, Patrick Dupre <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:Patrick.Dupre@univ-littoral.fr" target="_blank">Patrick.Dupre@univ-littoral.fr</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br>

<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">Hello,<br>
<br>
I received comments about installing packages not built for fedora.<br>
Is it an acceptable comment?<br>
<br>
Example.<br>
I would like to install scidavis. Unfortunately, yum install scidavis<br>
fails: No package scidavis available<br>
What are the other options?<br>
1) scidavis is available for fedora 14 (and 15?), but not for newest versions:<br>
fedora 16 shown up last year!<br>
2) try to find a binary distribution for linux, like<br>
scidavis-0.2.4-linux-x86-qt4.<u></u>4-py2.5.tar.bz2<br>
supposed to work opn fedora:<br>
(see <a href="http://scidavis.sourceforge.net/download.html" target="_blank">http://scidavis.sourceforge.<u></u>net/download.html</a>).<br>
but then:<br>
./scidavis: error while loading shared libraries: libpython2.5.so.1.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory<br>
fedora 18 provides: libpython2.7.so.1.0.<br>
3) from the sources: scidavis-0.2.4.tar.bz2<br>
but the compilation fails:<br>
<br>
cd scidavis/ &amp;&amp; make -f Makefile<br>
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/misc/scidavis/<u></u>scidavis-0.2.4/scidavis&#39;<br>
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=\&quot;/etc\&quot; -DPYTHON_UTIL_PATH=\&quot;/usr/<u></u>share/scidavis\&quot; -DSCRIPTING_PYTHON -DQT_PLUGIN -DTS_PATH=\&quot;/usr/share/<u></u>scidavis/translations\&quot; -DDOC_PATH=\&quot;/usr/share/doc/<u></u>scidavis\&quot; -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/<u></u>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/<u></u>include -I../3rdparty/qwt/src -I/usr/include/muParser -Isrc -Isrc/future -I/usr/X11R6/include -I/usr/src/misc/scidavis/<u></u>scidavis-0.2.4/tmp/scidavis -I. -o ../tmp/scidavis/<u></u>MuParserScript.o src/MuParserScript.cpp<br>


In file included from src/Table.h:39:0,<br>
                 from src/MuParserScript.cpp:36:<br>
src/Graph.h:39:22: fatal error: qwt_plot.h: No such file or directory<br>
compilation terminated.<br>
make[1]: *** [../tmp/scidavis/<u></u>MuParserScript.o] Error 1<br>
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/misc/scidavis/<u></u>scidavis-0.2.4/scidavis&#39;<br>
make: *** [sub-scidavis-make_default] Error 2<br>
<br>
<br>
while qwt_plot.h  is in /usr/include/qwt/qwt_plot.h or /usr/include/qwt5-qt4/qwt_<u></u>plot.h<br>
<br>
<br>
My impression is that people should make some efforts to offer only a few numbers of distributions<br>
and collaborate to offer a nice and polished distribution!<br>
Do not insult me for my point of view.<br>
<br>
Regards.<span class=""><font color="#888888"><br>
<br>
<br>
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</font></span></blockquote></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><br>Hi Patrick,<br clear="all"><div><br></div><div style>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. <br>

<br></div><div style>I looked into your problem with Scidavis, and managed to solve it like this:<br><br>1. Fetch and install the muParser-1.32 (1.34 causes Scidavis to crash) from here:<br><a href="http://rpm.pbone.net/index.php3/stat/4/idpl/17343337/dir/fedora_16/com/muParser-1.32-2.fc15.x86_64.rpm.html">http://rpm.pbone.net/index.php3/stat/4/idpl/17343337/dir/fedora_16/com/muParser-1.32-2.fc15.x86_64.rpm.html</a><br>

<br>2. Fetch the last available RPM for Scidavis here:<br><a href="http://rpm.pbone.net/index.php3/stat/4/idpl/15927176/dir/fedora_15/com/scidavis-0.2.4-4.fc14.x86_64.rpm.html">http://rpm.pbone.net/index.php3/stat/4/idpl/15927176/dir/fedora_15/com/scidavis-0.2.4-4.fc14.x86_64.rpm.html</a>  </div>

<div style><br>Install both packages (in the same order you downloaded them) by using yum localinstall &lt;package_name&gt;. <br><br>Worked on my machine at least...I am running F17 but I can&#39;t imagine you would have trouble on F18.</div>

<div style><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr">Best,<div><br></div><div>Christopher Svanefalk</div><div><br></div><div>mob: +46762628251</div><div>skype: csvanefalk</div><div>Resume (LinkedIn): <a href="http://www.linkedin.com/in/csvanefalk" target="_blank">http://www.linkedin.com/in/csvanefalk</a><br>

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