Hello all, I spent several hours installing Java3D today on my Redhat 5.2 system, and encountered several problems. I thought I'd share the workarounds I discovered / addtional software I needed. I was a newbie this morning, so if this seems trivial or has been posted already, just ignore it, but for the rest of you new to Java3D / Java for Linux, this might be useful. This information is scattered among many different sources, perhaps it should be in the README? Anyway, Linux Java3D performs identically to Java3D on my Windoze '98 box for my application (which is rather trivial, actually). Enjoy. Thanks, Kenn Installation under RedHat 5.2 ============ ===== ========== 1) Download and install the Java3D package as suggested (java3d1_1_1pre-v1-linux-sdk_tar.bz2). 2) If you do not already have them, you will also need the Mesa 3D Graphics Library: http://www.mesa3d.org/ 3) Download Version 3.0, and compile it. Copy the libraries from ..../Mesa-3.0/lib to /usr/lib or your favorite library location that ldconfig can find. 4) Do an ldconfig -v to make those libraries available. ==== The following is also needed to get Java working, but as a newbie, I had to go hunting for this information, so it bears repeating. These workarounds are listed on the known-bugs page: http://www.blackdown.org/java-linux/jdk1.2-status/known-bugs.html 5) You will need the URW fonts as suggested on the Blackdown homepage. Do a Save As on the link marked 'here' on the following page: http://www.gimp.org/fonts.html Unbundle this software, and copy it to your X11 URW fonts directory, which for me is: cp URW/* /usr/lib/X11/fonts/URW/ You also need to update your XF86Config file's font section to match the one shown on the webpage; then restart X. I had many of the fonts here, but I just did the bulk copy to make sure I had all of them. I guess you could pick and choose if you were bored. 6) You will also need to create a symbolic link to the libstdc++ library ln -s /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.2.8.0 /usr/lib/libstdc++-libc6.0-1.so.2 Hopefully, Java 3D now works. :) ------------------------------+------------------------------- Kenneth W. Flynn | [EMAIL PROTECTED] Programming in C Instructor | http://www.rpi.edu/~flynnk/ Gaming Club President | ------------------------------+------------------------------- "She'll make you take your | crazy life Clothes off and go dancing | Until you go insane in the rain | No, you'll never be the same She'll make you live her | | ---------------Ricky Martin: "Livin' La Vida Loca"------------ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
