reassign 834927 vtk6 thanks Greetings, and thanks for your report! Maxima only calls vtk via a shell system call using script input it writes to a file.
Take care, "Thomas E. Vaughan" <tevaug...@gmail.com> writes: > Package: maxima > Version: 5.38.0-3 > Severity: normal > > The 'draw3d' function defined int he 'draw' package for maxima is failing. > > In a conversation with me on debian-user, Nicolas George suggests that maxima > should be referring to the library through the SONAME, not through the file > ending with '.so'. That is, one should not have to install the corresponding > '-dev' package. > > Being not too bright, I had worked around this by manually making a few > symlinks via a shell script. It seems that I might better have worked around > the problem by installing an appropriate '-dev' package, but I don't know what > the right package would be. There seems to be no 'tcl-vtk6-dev' package in > Debian unstable. But I didn't look hard to find an appropriately named > package. > > I am running Debian unstable with maxima, vtk6, and tcl-vtk6 installed > according to documation here: http://riotorto.users.sourceforge.net/vtk/ > > The error output (pasted below) refers to a file that does not exist: > /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libvtkCommonCoreTCL-6.3.so > > Using 'dpkg -S libvtkCommonCoreTCL', I find > libvtk6.3: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libvtkCommonCoreTCL-6.3.so.6.3.0 > libvtk6.3: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libvtkCommonCoreTCL-6.3.so.6.3 > > Here is the error message: > > (%i8) draw3d(color=white,elevation_grid(m,0,0,10,10)); > (%o8) done > (%i9) couldn't load file > "/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libvtkCommonCoreTCL-6.3.so": > /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libvtkCommonCoreTCL-6.3.so: cannot open shared > object file: No such file or directory > attempt to provide package vtkCommonCoreTCL 6.3 failed: no version of package > vtkCommonCoreTCL provided > attempt to provide package vtkcommoncore 6.3 failed: no version of package > vtkcommoncore provided > Error in startup script: attempt to provide package vtk 6.3 failed: no > version of package vtk provided > ("package ifneeded vtk 6.3" script) > invoked from within > "package.orig require vtk" > ("eval" body line 1) > invoked from within > "eval package.orig $args" > (procedure "package" line 2) > invoked from within > "package require vtk" > > -- System Information: > Debian Release: stretch/sid > APT prefers unstable > APT policy: (500, 'unstable') > Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) > Foreign Architectures: i386 > > Kernel: Linux 4.6.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores) > Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968) (ignored: LC_ALL set to C) > Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash > Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) > > Versions of packages maxima depends on: > ii libc6 2.23-4 > ii libgmp10 2:6.1.1+dfsg-1 > ii libreadline6 6.3-8+b4 > ii libx11-6 2:1.6.3-1 > > Versions of packages maxima recommends: > ii gnuplot-x11 5.0.4+dfsg1-3 > ii maxima-share 5.38.0-3 > > Versions of packages maxima suggests: > ii maxima-doc 5.38.0-3 > pn maxima-emacs <none> > pn texmacs <none> > ii tk [wish] 8.6.0+9 > ii xmaxima 5.38.0-3 > > -- no debconf information -- Camm Maguire c...@maguirefamily.org ========================================================================== "The earth is but one country, and mankind its citizens." -- Baha'u'llah
