David MacKay: Useful stuff: Python

Additional instructions for VPython, beyond these.

1. Missing packages required

    sudo apt-get install xlibmesa-dev
    sudo apt-get install python2.2-tk 
   

2. Need corrected configure script for the visual package. save this as configure in python/visual-2.1.9

 sudo apt-get install gtkglarea5-dev
 sudo apt-get install python2.2-dev
 sudo apt-get install python2.2-numeric
 sudo apt-get install xlibmesa-dev
 sudo apt-get install python2.2-tk
 mkdir python
 mv Numeric-23.1.tar.gz python
 cd python
 tar -zxf Numeric-23.1.tar.gz
 cd Numeric-23.1
 sudo python setup.py install
 cd ~/python 
 tar -zxf visual-2.1.9-20031005.tar.gz
 cd visual-2.1.9
 cp ~sanjoy/tmp/visual-2.1.9/configure ../VISUAL219CONFIGUREUPDATE
 cp ../VISUAL219CONFIGUREUPDATE ./configure
 ./configure --prefix=/usr
 make
 sudo make install
 rehash
 vpython