On 12/09/12 21:05, Roger Bishop Jones wrote:
I'm having bad luck lately getting suitable environments for
running ProofPower.
My laptop is on Ubuntu 10.4, and that is fine for ProofPower,
but is now so out of date that I can't upgrade it, I would
have to install a more recent version of Ubuntu from
scratch.
So I revived an old server to try out a more up-to-date
context for running ProofPower.
(my efforts in the amazon cloud ran into the buffers some time
ago).
So far I'm not having much success on Ubuntu 12.04 (the
PolyML build doesn't seem to work for me).
What error message do you get? I ask because David Matthews is about to
release 5.5 so it would be worth resolving any issue there.
I'm interested to know what people are actually running
ProofPower on these days?
I'm using Fedora 16. Generally I've had no issue installing on the
Fedora series of Linux provided that all the prerequisite packages are
installed - achieved with the following yum/rpm commands:
yum install \
gcc-c++ \
polyml \
texlive-latex \
libXp-devel \
libXext-devel \
libXmu-devel \
libXt-devel \
xorg-x11-fonts-misc
rpm -ivh \
http://motif.ics.com/sites/default/files/openmotif-2.3.3-1.fc12.x86_64.rpm \
http://motif.ics.com/sites/default/files/openmotif-devel-2.3.3-1.fc12.x86_64.rpm
The key bindings 'just work' with AltGr and Left Window as the modifiers.
However, many new distributions use Gnome 3 which causes screen redraw
problems for Xpp (and Motif applications generally). One simple
work-around for Gnome 3 is to run in 'fallback mode' which avoids
hardware acceleration. That's what I do. (There appear to be various
discussions out there about this issue so it may be resolved now.)
Phil
P.S. Also, I have an issue when using X in Depth30 mode, i.e. 10 bits
per colour. Unless Xpp is run as root, it fails to start. Probably not
an Xpp-specific issue. I haven't bothered reporting that yet. For now
I just use Depth24, which is what most people without fancy displays are
using.
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