Leonardo,

Slightly OT but have you tried Virtual Box instead of VMware - I find it 
much easier to set up and get working.

Cheers,
Danny

Leonardo Zide wrote:
>  
>   I've just checked in a patch to LeoCAD that adds some of the 
> functionality of the Pieces Library Manager to the Linux version. It 
> doesn't have all the features that the Windows version has but it 
> allows you to import individual LDraw pieces and update packages (like 
> Philo's parts pack).
>  
>   I'll try to build rpm/deb packages and upload them tomorrow but if 
> you're feeling brave you can get the latest source and compile it 
> yourself (instructions can be found at 
> http://trac.gerf.org/leocad/wiki/CompilingGuide). If you've never 
> compiled anything before I'd suggest waiting another day for the .deb 
> package. You don't need update18, it's already included in the current 
> library.
>  
> Leonardo
>  
> PS: I know I said I'd get it done over the weekend but I couldn't get 
> VMWare to work at home so I could only check in the code today.
>
> On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 8:01 PM, brett stevens <[email protected] 
> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>
>     I am currently running Ubuntu 8.10 and have installed "LeoCAD for
>     Linux
>     Version 0.75.0" from the Ubuntu repositories.
>
>     I would like to add Philo's
>
>     - Unofficial parts pack for LeoCAD
>     - Unofficial LeoCAD parts for NXT
>
>     I saw that *Henrik Sundberg found a kind of solution:
>
>     > Success!
>     >
>     > 2008/7/25 Henrik Sundberg <storangen at gmail.com
>     <http://gmail.com/> <https://list.gerf.org/listinfo/leocad>>:
>     > >/ 2008/7/25  <philo at philohome.com <http://philohome.com/>
>     <https://list.gerf.org/listinfo/leocad>>:
>     > />>/ About missing parts in library, this can help:
>     > />>/ http://philohome.com/leoupd/leoupd.htm
>     > />/
>     > />/ It would definitely help if I only had access to the Pieces
>     Library
>     > />/ Manager, but that isn't available in the Linux version.
>     > />/
>     > />/ I might to be able to just extract the part of the Pieces
>     Library
>     > />/ Manager that handles imports of Philo's files into a separate
>     > />/ commandline program.
>     > /
>     > I did an ugly workaround, and am now able to use your pieces!
>     >
>     > I patched like this and ran the program just once with this change:
>     >
>     > --- /usr/local/src/leo-0.75.new/linux/main.cpp  (revision 727)
>     > +++ /usr/local/src/leo-0.75.new/linux/main.cpp  (arbetskopia)
>     > @@ -686,6 +686,8 @@
>     >      preview->SetCurrentPiece(Info);
>     >    }
>     >
>     > +
>      
> lcGetPiecesLibrary()->LoadUpdate("/home/henrik/Skrivbord/philo/update_unoff-2008-03-20.lup");
>     > +
>     >    gtk_main();
>     >
>     >    gtk_widget_unref (drawing_frame);
>     >
>     *Is this still the only solution that exists?
>
>     If this is still the only solution, may I ask for some
>     answers/confirmations:
>
>     - I will need to compile LeoCAD from source code?
>     - Where is the latest stable snapshot of the source code?
>     - How do I patch the source code with Henrik's solution (I have never
>     patched before)
>     - It seems that I do the following:
>        - compile and run once as it is from the snapshot.
>        - patch and recompile and run once to import the
>     update_unoff-2008-03-20.lup
>        - repatch and recompile and run once to import the cleanup.lup
>        - repatch and recompile and run once to import the updatnxt.lup
>        - compile original source code from snapshot
>      And I should be good to go?
>
>     while I am doing this should I also repatch/recompile/rerun to import
>     update18.lup or will this already be included in compiled from source
>     version?
>
>     thanks
>     brett
>
>
>
>
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