[Gmsh] Running Gmsh on Mandrake 10.1

[Christophe Geuzaine]

Laurent Malod-Panisset wrote:
> Hi
> I recently downloaded and installed Code Aster 7.4 on Mandrake 10.1 
> which comes with Gmsh 1.56
> Everything was ok except Gmsh.
> 
> It tries to load libGL.so.1.2 but isn't able to do so.
> I downloaded the Gmsh-1.58 rpm. Same problem
> I compiled from source using Gsl and Fltk. No error during the 
> compilation (after getting the required libraries from everywhere)
> 
> I guess the problem comes from the 3d stuff, but i don't know where to 
> begin to solve this
> Mandrake 10.1 uses Xorg with the 3d acceleration. I installed Mesa and 
> so on..which doesn't work (weird)
> 
> Do you think the problem is related to Gmsh? or to the Mandrake config?

The problem is (most probably) related to your Mandrake config. If the
OpenGL tests in FLTK do not work (try for example
"fltk-1.1.X/test/cube"), then Gmsh will not work either.

Christophe

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