Hi Gert, As a Slicer user I recommend to use their pre-built binaries [ http://download.slicer.org/] or to build the program from git master. The project is fast moving, and it is essential to use up-to-date builds to take advantage of all available modules and 3rd party extensions.
Best -Dominique On Wed, Oct 7, 2015 at 9:04 AM, Gert Wollny <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > I had a look into what work needs to be done to packaging these. > > CTK: > > - the experimental package created by Mathieu and Dominique still used > qt4 and vtk5 > - I've managed to build the current upstream version against qt5 and > vtk6, two small patches are required that I sent upstream [1]. Since > so far no official version exists I'll wait a little that they > integrate these patches and then move forward to create the new > package. > > Slicer: > - From what I could see it is still based on QT4 but requires VTK6, > and the vtkRenderQT widget which comes with the QT5 flavor in sid. > > > Dominique your last work on this is from 2013, did you work on this > later on? Can you give me any pointers about difficulties with > slicer4? > > Best, > Gert > > > >

