how to install yade in my computer

Asked by Li Zhengobscu

I failed to install yade in my computer.

When I try install directly using the Ubuntu software centre, details of the failure information is as follows:

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Unpacking libdvdread4 (from .../libdvdread4_4.1.3-8ubuntu1_i386.deb) ...
Selecting previously deselected package libdvdnav4.
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Selecting previously deselected package yade-0.60.
Unpacking yade-0.60 (from .../yade-0.60_0.60.3-1~lucid_i386.deb) ...
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Setting up libdvdread4 (4.1.3-8ubuntu1) ...

Setting up libdvdnav4 (4.1.3-6) ...

Setting up libenca0 (1.12-1) ...

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Setting up libpostproc51 (4:0.5.1-1ubuntu1.1) ...

Setting up libsvga1 (1:1.4.3-29) ...

Setting up libxvidcore4 (2:1.2.2+debian-0ubuntu2) ...

Setting up libopenal1 (1:1.12.854-0ubuntu1~lucid1) ...

Setting up libx264-85 (2:0.85.1448+git1a6d32-4) ...

Setting up mplayer (2:1.0~rc3+svn20090426-1ubuntu16.1) ...

Setting up mencoder (2:1.0~rc3+svn20090426-1ubuntu16.1) ...
Setting up yade-0.60 (0.60.3-1~lucid) ...
update-alternatives: error: alternative path /usr/bin/yade-0.60 doesn't exist.
dpkg: error processing yade-0.60 (--configure):
 subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 2
Processing triggers for libc-bin ...
ldconfig deferred processing now taking place
Errors were encountered while processing:
 yade-0.60
Setting up yade-0.60 (0.60.3-1~lucid) ...
update-alternatives: error: alternative path /usr/bin/yade-0.60 doesn't exist.
dpkg: error processing yade-0.60 (--configure):
 subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 2

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Anton Gladky (gladky-anton) said :
#1

Hi,

this is a strange error. Probably, yade-0.60 packages are broken. Need to check.
Try to install yade-daily, it is working:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:yade-pkg/snapshots
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install yade-daily

It will be updated automatically.

Anton

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Li Zhengobscu (l-zheng) said :
#2

Yes, it's working now