Update documentation for clean installation on ubuntu 16.04

This is strange since the online documentation includes the following library installs:

libvtk6-dev python-pyqt5 pyqt5-dev-tools python-pyqt5.qtwebkit.

which should provide yade the dependencies for qt5 and vtk6.

Anyways, here is my srcsInstall.sh shell script, which I use on fresh 16.04 installs [1]. Maybe you can give it a try and let me know if it works for you. However, it is copy and pasted from the existing install documentation except the metis-dev and suitesparse-dev libraries. One thing I noticed in your post was that you mentioned "python-vtk", but I believe it should be python-tk. Maybe that typo is the source of the vtk errors? I am also no expert with this stuff, it is all trial and error territory for me.

[1]
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:yade-users/external
sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get -y install cmake git freeglut3-dev libloki-dev \
libboost-all-dev fakeroot dpkg-dev build-essential g++ \
python-dev ipython python-matplotlib libsqlite3-dev python-numpy python-tk gnuplot \
libgts-dev python-pygraphviz libvtk6-dev python-numpy libeigen3-dev \
python-xlib python-pyqt5 pyqt5-dev-tools python-pyqt5.qtwebkit gtk2-engines-pixbuf python-argparse \
libqglviewer-dev python-imaging libjs-jquery python-sphinx python-git python-bibtex \
libxmu-dev libxi-dev libcgal-dev help2man libbz2-dev zlib1g-dev python-minieigen \
libopenblas-dev libsuitesparse-dev libmetis-dev python-gts htop vim

sudo mkdir /usr/local/lib/myYade
cd /usr/local/lib/myYade/
sudo mkdir install build
git clone https://github.com/yade/trunk.git
sudo apt-get update

cd build
sudo cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=../install ../trunk -DNOSUFFIX=ON
sudo make -j6 install

OK, I spent some time checking the build and it turns out I am also encountering the same warnings with my script, I just never noticed them because it did not appear to impact the installation.

I managed to get rid of warnings 1 and 3 by installing libqtwebkit-dev and libvtk6-dev. But I am not sure what this really accomplished since yade is still compiled with VTK and fully functional with all three warnings.

Warning 2 appears to be an issue with naming in the Debian packaging [1].

[1]https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=826050

Thanks Robert for your time and help.

Unfortunately, I am still struggling and it is very annoying...

I don't understand as I even reinstalled ubuntu 16.04 from scratch...

I got the same error when using the ubuntu repositories (sudo apt-get install yade) or the source code and it is what was reported in [1].

yade launches without any problem but when typing within the terminal (e.g. len(O.bodies)), yade ends up by crashing.

If the persons who faced the problem described in [1] could tell what they have done, I would be very grateful.

Luc

[1] https://answers.launchpad.net/yade/+question/295951

The problem occurring when launching a python script (e.g. yade script.py) is "solved" according to Klaus workaround described here:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/yade/+bug/1604266

I must mention that this bug occurs with all yade versions I tried (yadedaily, yade from package and sources from github).

Concerning the "clean installation" procedure, the warnings are still on during the cmake stage. At the moment, I did not encountered any related problems so I guess it is not a big deal.

BTW, following the procedure to install yade daily from packages provided in the doc, be aware that you will not be able to make it work without doing:

sudo apt-get install python-pyqt5.qtwebkit

Could this be included directly in the sudo apt-get install yadedaily? I don't know.

I am not closing the thread for the moment as the solution is not really satisfactory. I'll try to look around for a proper solution in the coming days. If I don't find anything, I'll close the thread.

Thanks again to everyone involved.

Cheers

Luc

This question was expired because it remained in the 'Open' state without activity for the last 15 days.