Thanks a lot for your reply and good luck for your efforts! I found that the k3d in Windows has more plugins than in Ubuntu. Hope someday Ubuntu also gets the same. :)
Cheers Anand On Fri, Jan 7, 2011 at 12:47 PM, Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo < [email protected]> wrote: > Hello Anand, > > No, that will not suffice: the program has to be rebuilt (and if you are > new to Ubuntu, probably you don't know how, however there are guides > around). The instructions were mostly directed at Ubuntu packagers, > which might want to modify the Debian package that I create. > > However, there is a deeper problem: the CGAL libs that this module > depends on, are in a separate repository ("multiverse", for non-free > software, software which has licensing problems of some kind). I don't > know if K-3D can stay in "universe" repository if it depends on software > in "multiverse". In Debian, the names are different but the idea is > similar, and in principle K-3D cannot be distributed with this module > enabled without important consequences and modifications (it's more > complicate than I thought in the 1st reply). I just contacted the > (main) author of the K-3D software to know if we can do something about > this. > > Note: I am the Debian maintainer for this package, and at the moment > Ubuntu imports directly the package into Ubuntu repositories, so maybe > I'm not completely right when interpreting some Ubuntu policies about > this matter. > > Cheers. > > -- > You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber > of the bug. > https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/696909 > > Title: > CGALBoolean plugin missing-for Boolean Operations > > Status in “k3d” package in Ubuntu: > New > > Bug description: > Binary package hint: k3d > > A very fundamental CAD operation namely the Boolean operations are perfomed > by the CGALBoolean plugin. > Unfortunately this is missing in k3d 0.8.0.2-2 of Ubuntu distro (Maverick), > although in windows this plugin is included. > Kindly add this and rebuild k3d. Thank you. > > To unsubscribe from this bug, go to: > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/k3d/+bug/696909/+subscribe > -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/696909 Title: CGALBoolean plugin missing-for Boolean Operations -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
