[yt-users] Quirk when Installing yt
Matthew Turk
matthewturk at gmail.com
Mon Dec 1 22:31:24 PST 2008
Hi!
> Yt tells me I have to install the gtk+ interface, not originially on my os
> installation before it can install. To do this I have to load a bunch of
> things not native on my os, which is Ubuntu (linux). Soon as I have the gtk+
> installed then I get a quirky error booting up:
Hmm, interesting -- you shouldn't *have* to install the GTK+ interface
unless you want to use the GUI. (By default, though, in some old
versions of install_script.sh it tried to require it, but this was
disable-able.) However, of course if you want to use the GUI you'll
need it, like you said!
> I can login okay and everything runs as normal, also Yt, so far (just
> command line). Is there any way the origin of this quirk can effect Yt?
> I'm searching forums for my and tracing the problem on my system but just
> wondering if anyone more familiar with the Yt interface might know off-hand.
Nope, it should be totally fine -- from my own googling, which I
suspect mirrors yours, this seems to be localized to the installation
of gdm themes, which govern the login screen. Yt should be immune to
this.
Give a shot at running the GUI, "reason", and let us know if it works?
> build-essential libsdl1.2debian libsdl1.2-dev libgl1-mesa-dev
> libglu1-mesa-dev libsdl-image1.2 libsdl-image1.2-dev
> libatk1.0-0 l ibatk1.0-dev libpango1.0-0 libpango1.0-dev libcairo2
> libcairo2-dev libtiff4 libtiff4-dev tcl tcl-dev
> tk tk-dev libgtk1.2-dev mesa-common-dev xlibmesa-gl-dev
> libglu1-mesa-dev libjpeg62-dev
Ahh, I see! I think one of the issues we've had in the past with
Ubuntu is that the -dev packages need to be installed for the
installation script to run. I'm going to (this week) take a look at a
fresh Ubuntu install to see which specific package names need to be
installed to avoid having to run the installation script at all, and I
will post some instructions on the Wiki about this. One should be
able to get everything other than yt itself just from apt-get.
Good luck, and let us know if 'reason' works or not!
-Matt
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