Roger,

Yes, thanks: there was a typo in my list of packages: I actually used:

        libmotif-dev
        polyml
        libpolyml-dev
        texlive-latex-recommended

I expect texlive-generic-recommended would do too.

Regards,

Rob.

> On 23 Jul 2016, at 08:14, Roger Bishop Jones <r...@rbjones.com> wrote:
> 
> Thanks Rob for sorting this out for me.
> I now have ProofPower running on Ubuntu 16.04 (under VirtualBox on my 
> macbook).
> (also under OS X, but I have other things which I can't get to work on OS X).
> 16.04 works on the 12" macbook under VirtualBox but not native, though it 
> will boot from a flash drive but doesn't then understand the keyboard or 
> touchpad.
> 
> The install prescription should probably be:
>       libmotif-dev
>       polyml
>       libpolyml-dev
>       texlive-generic-recommended
> 
> but I already had texlive-full installed so I can't confirm that 
> texlive-generic-recommended suffices. 
> Roger
> 
> On 22/07/2016 12:30, Rob Arthan wrote:
>> Roger,
>> 
>> I have now had time to build ProofPower on ubuntu 16.04. I needed to do the 
>> following:
>> 
>> 1) Install the following packages:
>> 
>>      libmotif-dev
>>      poly
>>      libpoly-dev
>>      texlive-recommended
>> 
>> 2) Change configure so that it doesn’t fail if libpolymain is in a 
>> subdirectory of /usr/lib (see below)
>> 
>> 3) Change src/xpp/xpp.mkf so that it doesn’t use -lXext or -lXp (see below)
>> 
>> 4) Copy the app-defaults directory to my home directory (xpp wouldn’t use 
>> the fonts otherwise)
>> 
>> For (2) and (3) I’ve attached a patch. If you build poly yourself, rather 
>> than install the package you
>> might not need to do (2), but the patch does not harm.
>> 
>> Regards,
>> 
>> Rob.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>>> On 21 Jul 2016, at 11:15, Rob Arthan <r...@lemma-one.com> 
>>> <mailto:r...@lemma-one.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Roger,
>>> 
>>>> On 18 Jul 2016, at 22:15, Roger Bishop Jones <r...@rbjones.com> 
>>>> <mailto:r...@rbjones.com> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> I have been trying to install ProofPower on Ubuntu 16.04, without success.
>>>> 
>>>> The stumbling block comes early, in the prerequisites for installing 
>>>> OpenMotif, since some of these are not available in the usual repositories.
>>> Do you need any more than libmotif-dev?  I have a kubuntu 16.04 VM but 
>>> unfortunately it’s not convenient for me to install all the prerequisites 
>>> for ProofPower on it just now. However, I installed libmotif-dev and was 
>>> able to build a simple motif programme and I can’t see any reason why xpp 
>>> would need anything more.
>>> 
>>>> If anyone figures out how to get ProofPower installed on Ubuntu 16.04 I 
>>>> should be pleased to know how it can be done.
>>> I’ll try a full installation on kubuntu 16.04 when I get a moment. 
>>> 
>>> Regards,
>>> 
>>> Rob.
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