MGLTools is Available for Debian

there seem be many things missing, as for now. It depends on mgltools-mglutil which depends on non-existent packages mgltools-sff and qhull (there is old qhull-bin package). The installatin from binary package mgltools_i86Linux2_1.5.4.tar.gz also has one (for me, essential, because the command line editing and completion is unavalaible) problem with readline - it requires very old libreadline4 package; after copying libreadline.so.4.2 and libhistory.so.4.2 (can be found by googling) to lib directory of mgltools things appear to work. Thanks for beginning the effort of creating .deb packages :-) Mgltools deserves better publicity, I think. With .deb packages it happens.

The Debian packages are now working nicely. To install try

sudo aptitude install autodocktools autogrid autodock

which should be functional on all Debian architectures.

Ubuntu already has autodock and autogrid, the Debian are installable. The more cautious user might prefer to wait for Unbutu Jaunty (the version after intrepid) will ship with the MGLTools directly.

just did it on my home PC, 32 bit Debian/sid. Thanks for the good work.

to above mentioned command, because this package it is not mentioned in the dependencies of mgltools-pmv nor mgltools-dejavu.

Many, many thanks for spotting this, Michael. I have added the dependencies to the Debian packaging sources and the next release will have them.

The above mentioned corrections for autodocktools' dependencies have now been uploaded to the Debian distribution. The AMD64 platform has problems, at least on my machine, which I would like to hear about from other users. The 32bit Intel packages seem to work just fine. The Debian autodock and autogrid packages were updated from 4.0 to 4.2.1 release candidate 1.

I have tried the aptitude method on Ubuntu 9.04. Installation went well but when I run runAdt command the splash picture frozen. These last 2 lines were shown on my terminal.
"
ImportError: No module named geomutils.geomalgorithms
hit enter to continue
"
Probably because of lack of this specific module in instalation

surachai

After adding the dependency mentioned above,it is working now.

Thanks you

Sorry. Didn't read thoroughly before posting.

Hi,

I installed the bundled packages on an Ubuntu 9.10 distro. After solving a dependency issue (https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/mgltools-vision/+bug/532777), I tried to launch vision; struggled a bit because some packages depend on Python2.5 and some on Python2.6; finally the interface starts but I can not load the matplotlib nodes. Here is the error I am getting (also reported at https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/mgltools-vision/+question/103334):

Warning (from warnings module):
File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.5/matplotlib/numerix/__init__.py", line 18
warnings.warn(msg, DeprecationWarning)
DeprecationWarning:
**********************************************************
matplotlib.numerix and all its subpackages are deprecated.
They will be removed soon. Please use numpy instead.
**********************************************************

>>> File "/usr/share/pyshared/Vision/bin/runVision", line 14, in <module>
Vision.runVision(sys.argv, ownInterpreter = True)
File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/Vision/__init__.py", line 336, in runVision
code.interact( 'Vision Interactive Shell', local=mod.__dict__)
File "/usr/lib/python2.5/code.py", line 302, in interact
console.interact(banner)
File "/usr/lib/python2.5/code.py", line 234, in interact
line = self.raw_input(prompt)
File "/usr/lib/python2.5/code.py", line 277, in raw_input
return raw_input(prompt)
File "/usr/lib/python2.5/lib-tk/Tkinter.py", line 1417, in __call__
return self.func(*args)
File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/mglutil/util/callback.py", line 86, in __call__
return apply(self.function, args, kw)
File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/Vision/VPE.py", line 1667, in loadLibModule
traceback.print_stack()
cannot import name linspace

Thanks for your help. I am eager impatient to test vision!

Jean-Philippe

Hi Jean-Philippe,

There might be a bug in matplotlib or numpy modules distributed in Ubuntu 9.10 that might be causing this problem. I just tried the following command on my FC11 and it was giving me ImportError: numpy/core/multiarray.so: undefined symbol: PyUnicodeUCS2_FromUnicode:

python -c "from matplotlib.mlab import linspace"

This is something that numpy maintainers might be able to fix. As a workaround for Vision, you can edit Vision/contours.py and comment or delete "from matplotlib.mlab import linspace" (#5 line).

Thanks for the quick answer! I'll submit a bug for the numpy package and in the mean time comment the line ;-)

Jean-Philippe

I comment out line 5 ; I now get an error on the import of matplotlib.cbook popd. This function does not exist anymore; googling a bit, I found this comment in the matplotlib repo:

warnings.warn("Use native python dict.pop method", DeprecationWarning)

I assume the popd function has now been removed from matplotlib. I modified the matplotlibNodes.py file:

- remove popd from the import line on line 167
- replace line 263 with the new syntax: kwargs.pop('polar', False)

This time the matplotlib nodes are loaded! I will now start play with it :-)

Hope this will help. Will it be valuable to submit a second bug report for Ubuntu (and maybe Debian)?

Jean-Philippe

Thanks for the update Jean-Philippe. There is no need to submit a second bug report for Ubuntu. We'll update our code when we make binaries with new version of matplotlib. Your message is much appreciated, thanks!