Hello Charlie and welcome! Been a long time!
The wiki instructions seem correct to me. This may be a bug in octool, that command line should have downloaded, built and installed cogutil and atomspace. Cheers, Cassio On Wed, Nov 8, 2017 at 12:00 PM, charlie derr <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, 8 Nov 2017 09:20:30 +0200 > Nil Geisweiller <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > On 11/07/2017 02:26 PM, Charlie Derr wrote: > > > Hey Mike! > > > Thanks much for the advice, I suspected that's what I wanted to > > > do. I cloned the cogutil repo and then created a build directory > > > inside and then executed "cmake .." then "make" then "sudo make > > > install". After clearing away CMakeCache.txt I got a similar error > > > with regard to atomspace, so I'm building/installing that now. > > > > > > It might make sense to update the wiki with these details. > > > > Sure! I didn't fully understand what should be updated. Could you do > > it? Do you have the permissions to edit the wiki page? If not, or if > > you don't have time, could you explain what should be updated? > > > > Thanks, > > Nil > > > > I did just create an account so as to be able to edit the wiki, but I'm > reluctant to do that for a couple reasons. The first is that I'm brand > new to opencog and so have very little experience with it and wouldn't > want to introduce an error due to my newbie status. The second is that > I'm not sure exactly what the correct solution should be (in terms of > what the wiki ought to say). Let me try to explain. > > https://wiki.opencog.org/w/Building_OpenCog_(Hands_On) is the wiki page > I was using to try to get started, and as I had an ubuntu 16.04 VM > available, I was using the instructions from: > 3. Installing dependencies on Ubuntu > > The command to install octool16 worked great, but when I ran: > > ./octool16 -rsdpcalv > > I (eventually) got the build error about no CogUtil. I have no idea how > octool works, but I think ideally, that above command ought to be > tweaked/edited to check out, build and install from the cogutil and > atomspace git repos prior to attempting to build opencog itself. Which > may be more than a wiki edit. > > After seeing your message this morning and looking more closely at the > wiki, I noticed that I still had this other tab open: > https://wiki.opencog.org/w/Installing_OpenCog_for_Noobs# > First_Steps_for_.2A.2Aexpert.2A.2A_users:_those_familiar_ > with_git.2C_Github.2C_and_Linux > > As it only referenced an earlier version of ubuntu (versions > 14) I > hadn't looked closely at it. But I now see that under the "New > Instructions" section, that the correct procedure is outlined (manually > though, not using octool). > > I hope this helps. And I'm willing to provide more feedback if > necessary. Just ask. > > best, > ~c > > > > > > > thanks again, > > > ~c > > > > > > > > > On Tuesday, November 7, 2017 at 6:21:50 AM UTC-5, Michael Duncan > > > wrote: > > > > > > hi, fellow sr soccer alumnus! the cogutil binary is built from > > > a seperate github repo so make sure it's getting installed and check > > > where it's getting installed (on my ubuntu 16.04 it's in > > > /usr/local/lib/cogutil.so). also a bunch of code just got > > > changed from "cogutils" to "cogutil" for consistency. try looking > > > for "cogutil.h", at this point i think "cogutils.h" would be > > > incorrect. > > > > > > mike "sweeper" duncan > > > > > > On Tuesday, November 7, 2017 at 6:50:12 PM UTC+8, Charlie Derr > > > wrote: > > > > > > I've tried to follow the instructions here (using an ubuntu > > > 16.04 VM and octool16) and I get: > > > > > > CMake Error at CMakeLists.txt:144 (MESSAGE): > > > CogUtil missing: it is needed for everything! > > > > > > > > > -- Configuring incomplete, errors occurred! > > > See also > > > "/home/ni/opencog/build/CMakeFiles/CMakeOutput.log". See also > > > "/home/ni/opencog/build/CMakeFiles/CMakeError.log". > > > > > > I've googled this error, but don't see any current results. > > > I've searched for cogutils.h and it is not present on my system > > > anywhere. Please advise. > > > > > > thanks so very much in advance, > > > ~c > > > > > > > > > > > > On Saturday, October 21, 2017 at 6:00:14 AM UTC-4, Nil > > > wrote: > > > > > > Hi Selva, > > > > > > this is typically a good place to start > > > > > > http://wiki.opencog.org/w/Hands_On_With_OpenCog > > > <http://wiki.opencog.org/w/Hands_On_With_OpenCog> > > > > > > it seems down though at the moment. > > > > > > Nil > > > > > > On 10/20/2017 01:36 PM, Vanangamudi wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > > > > > how do I get started with solving toy problems with > > > opencog to head > > > > grasp of where things are? > > > > > > > > > > > > Thanks, > > > > > > > > Selva. > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > > > Groups "opencog" group. > > > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, > > > send an email to [email protected] > > > <mailto:[email protected]>. > > > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > > > <mailto:[email protected]>. > > > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/opencog. > > > To view this discussion on the web visit > > > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/opencog/17d18f76-fcc6- > 4247-9a1a-33ce225e29b7%40googlegroups.com > > > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/opencog/17d18f76-fcc6- > 4247-9a1a-33ce225e29b7%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium= > email&utm_source=footer>. > > > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "opencog" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/opencog. > To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/ > msgid/opencog/20171108090037.7ababfe0%40quark.yip.yay. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- Cassio Pennachin -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "opencog" group. 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