Re: [Fisicalab-discuss] installation on ubuntu maverick 64 X86

[Germán Arias]

Thanks for your interest in FisicaLab.

Unfortunately the GNUstep packages on Ubuntu are very old and have many
bugs. I did test these packages some months ago and really don't work.
So I can think you have three options:

1) Download the GNUstep packages for OpenSUSE (packages gnustep-make,
gnustep-base. gnustep-gui and gnustep-back):

http://www.rstonehouse.co.uk/extras/GNUstep-2.6.0/openSUSE-11.4/index.html

And then convert these to .deb (with Alien). And try if these can be
installed and if works.

2) Install GNUstep from source as described in:

http://www.nongnu.org/fisicalab/gnustep_inst_en.html

The following list of packages are based on Ubuntu repository (for
Maverick). So, I think you will not have problems to install these.
These are the requisites to install GNUstep:

        * Objective C compiler (gobjc)
        * library ffi (libffi5 and libffi-dev)
        * library icu (libicu42 and libicu-deb
        * library ssl (libssl0.9.8 and libssl-dev)
        * library xml (libxml2 and libxml2-dev)
        * library xslt (libxslt1.1 and libxslt1-dev)
        * library jpej (libjpeg62 and libjpeg62-dev)
        * library tiff (libtiff4 and libtiff4-dev)
        * library png (libpng12-0 and libpng12-dev)
        * library ungif (libungif4g and libungif4-dev)
        * library cairo (libcairo2 and libcairo2-dev)
        * library gmp3 (libgmp3c2 and libgmp3-dev)
        * library freetype (libfreetype6 and libfreetype6-dev)
        * library x11 (libx11-6 and libx11-dev)
        * library xext (libxext6 and libxext-dev)
        * library xft (libxft2 and libxft-dev)
        * library xmu (libxmu6 and libxmu-dev)
        * library cups (libcups2 and libcups2-dev)
        * library aspell (aspell, aspell-en, libaspell15 and libaspell-dev)


3) Download the precompiled GNUstep:
 
http://www.rstonehouse.co.uk/extras/GNUstep-VM-0.9/

And then install GSL, and compile FisicaLab inside it.


Decide what is best for you. And let me know if you can run FísicaLab.
Regards.


On sáb, 2011-06-18 at 17:03 -0400, osman wrote:
> Hi,
> I was able to load all GNUstep using ubuntu repositories. Compilation
> went fine (I had to change the location of GNUstep.sh
> to /usr/share/GNUstep/Makefiles). I was also able to login using window
> maker. But I am not able to start apps from command line. any app Ink
> FisicaLab  is giving me seg fault:
> 
> ...
> 2011-06-18 16:59:37.252 Ink[24344] The font specified for NSFont,
> Helvetica, can't be found.
> 2011-06-18 16:59:37.252 Ink[24344] Font not found Helvetica
> 2011-06-18 16:59:37.252 Ink[24344] Font not found Helvetica
> 2011-06-18 16:59:37.252 Ink[24344] Font not found Helvetica
> 2011-06-18 16:59:37.252 Ink[24344] Font not found Courier
> 2011-06-18 16:59:37.252 Ink[24344] Font not found Fixed
> 2011-06-18 16:59:37.253 Ink[24344] Problem posting notification:
> <NSException: 0x2560a10> NAME:NSRangeException REASON:index is out of
> range in function _attributesAtIndexEffectiveRange() INFO:(nil)
> Segmentation fault
> address@hidden:~$ 
> 
> openapp FisicaLab
> 2011-06-18 17:00:53.689 FisicaLab[24414] Font not found Helvetica
> 2011-06-18 17:00:53.690 FisicaLab[24414] The font specified for NSFont,
> Helvetica, can't be found.
> 2011-06-18 17:00:53.690 FisicaLab[24414] Font not found Helvetica
> 2011-06-18 17:00:53.690 FisicaLab[24414] Font not found Helvetica
> 2011-06-18 17:00:53.690 FisicaLab[24414] Font not found Helvetica
> 2011-06-18 17:00:53.690 FisicaLab[24414] Font not found Courier
> 2011-06-18 17:00:53.690 FisicaLab[24414] Font not found Fixed
> 2011-06-18 17:00:53.690 FisicaLab[24414] Font not found Helvetica-Bold
> 2011-06-18 17:00:53.690 FisicaLab[24414] The font specified for
> NSBoldFont, Helvetica-Bold, can't be found.
> ....
> 2011-06-18 17:00:53.697 FisicaLab[24414] The font specified for NSFont,
> Helvetica, can't be found.
> 2011-06-18 17:00:53.697 FisicaLab[24414] Font not found Helvetica
> 2011-06-18 17:00:53.698 FisicaLab[24414] Font not found Helvetica
> 2011-06-18 17:00:53.698 FisicaLab[24414] Font not found Helvetica
> 2011-06-18 17:00:53.698 FisicaLab[24414] Font not found Courier
> 2011-06-18 17:00:53.698 FisicaLab[24414] Font not found Fixed
> 2011-06-18 17:00:53.698 FisicaLab[24414] Problem posting notification:
> <NSException: 0x18463a0> NAME:NSRangeException REASON:index is out of
> range in function _attributesAtIndexEffectiveRange() INFO:(nil)
> Segmentation fault
> address@hidden:~$ 
> 
> 
> Looks like I dont have a enviro variable not set(?) or missing
> something. Do you have any idea?  This looks like not specific to
> FisicaLab.
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> Osman
> 
> 
>