Problem Installing Gwyddion on Ubuntu 10.04

Can you give the output of:

sudo apt-get update; sudo apt-get upgrade; sudo apt-get --reinstall install nano

Thanks

Did you use this guide to add the gwyddion repo:

http://www.beathovn.de/

You wuill need to run:

gksudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list

To get write access to the file.

I ran the update and seemed to work fine. I am currently waiting for a 45 MB file related to nVidia.

yikes whats that for?

This is what it says after I agreed to upgrade the file.

The following packages will be upgraded:
  fglrx-modaliases nvidia-current nvidia-current-modaliases nvidia-settings
  system76-driver
5 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 46.7MB of archives.
After this operation, 4,395kB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? Y
Get:1 http://planet76.com/repositories/ ./ system76-driver 2.5.1 [865kB]
Get:2 http://ppa.launchpad.net/ubuntu-x-swat/x-updates/ubuntu/ lucid/main nvidia-current 256.29-0ubuntu1~xup~lucid [45.0MB]

Hopefully this is not a problem...

Haider

The upgrade seemed to go fine... When I try to put in sudo apt-get --reinstall install nano

I get the following message

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Reinstallation of nano is not possible, it cannot be downloaded.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.

Hope that helps.

haider

Yeah xswat is pretty sweet, bleeding edge baby !!

Please mark this as solved if the question is answere. Cheers

I am not sure what is going on... How is the problem not solved?

How is the problem now solved?!?

I thought you said the install of Gwyddion went fine or did I misinterprett?

My apologies. I meant that the sudo apt-get upgrade (the nVidia modules for system76) uploaded fine

When I tried to reinstall nano I got an error message (see above)

I am still trying to install gwyddion at the moment.

Thank you for helping me with this. I really appreciate it.

Haider

If you follow the guide I gave in the link it shows how you can add the repository and install that way.

I added the repository from the site to synaptic and tried to install gwyddion but the installation is still showing errors.

Haider

Ok can you give the output of:

sudo aptitude install gwyddion

Thanks

Here is the message that I get when I type sudo aptitude install gwyddion and hit Y for the suggested solutions.

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Reading extended state information
Initializing package states... Done
The following packages are BROKEN:
  gwyddion libgwyddion2-0
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  gwyddion-common{a} libgtkglext1{a}
0 packages upgraded, 4 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 2,564kB of archives. After unpacking 9,540kB will be used.
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
  gwyddion: Depends: libfftw3-3 which is a virtual package.
  libgwyddion2-0: Depends: libfftw3-3 which is a virtual package.
The following actions will resolve these dependencies:

Keep the following packages at their current version:
gwyddion [Not Installed]
libgwyddion2-0 [Not Installed]

Leave the following dependencies unresolved:
gwyddion-common recommends gwyddion (>= 2.19-1)
Score is -10072

Accept this solution? [Y/n/q/?] Y
No packages will be installed, upgraded, or removed.
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 0B will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?] Y
Writing extended state information... Done
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Reading extended state information
Initializing package states... Done

Thanks,
Haider

I think I have installed the program... I need to make sure it is the most current and stable version since the file open manager in the Gwyddion program seems different.

I updated my repositories through the synaptic manager by adding the following,

deb http://cz.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu hardy main universe

Then I opened a terminal and typed the following,

sudo aptitude install gwyddion

It now seems as though I have the latest version of gwyddion. I checked to make sure that it opens native gwyddion documents. I will have to use it more over the next few days to really make sure everything is fine (e.g. dealing with raw files generated by a fortran program that we wrote for visualizing simulated SPM images, which worked fine on my buddies older Ubuntu computer).

Still not 100% sure why this worked. Any ideas would help me troubleshoot future problems.

Thanks to actionparsnip for helping!

I really appreciate the support.

haider

Just to follow up...

Gwyddion is working fine on Ubuntu 10.04 (Lucid). I have checked that it opens all necessary files for my research (simulated as well as experimental).

Thanks again to actionparsnip!

H