[yt-users] Quirk when Installing yt

rsoares dlleuz at xmission.com
Mon Dec 1 23:02:35 PST 2008


Thanks, that was really helpful.  Reason comes up fine.  I'm figuring 
out how to use it.

R.Soares

Matthew Turk wrote:
> 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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