scidavis

[Patrick Dupre]

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.

[Christopher Svanefalk]

On Fri, Mar 8, 2013 at 9:59 PM, Patrick Dupre <
[e-mail]> 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?
> 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.htmlhttp://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/muPar...

2. Fetch the last available RPM for Scidavis here:
http://rpm.pbone.net/index.php3/stat/4/idpl/15927176/dir/fedora_15/com/scida...

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.

[Michael Schwendt]

On Fri, 08 Mar 2013 21:59:48 +0100, Patrick Dupre 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?
> scidavis is available for fedora 14 (and 15?), but not for newest versions:
>
> fedora 16 shown up last year!

Read http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/scidavis.git/tree/dead.package
That confirms what Christopher has written in another reply.