Hi Robert,

thanks! I will give it a try :-)

Greetings!
Fabian

* Robert wrote 18 Aug 2005:

> Hi Fabian,
> 
> >I am looking for an rpm package of vtk (Visualization
> >Toolkit) which works with SL 4.1. I found one vtk-4.5
> >package, but it needs a newer 'libstdc++'. I get this
> >message:
> >
> >rpm -i vtk-4.5.0-0.cvs.13.fc4.i386.rpm 
> >error: Failed dependencies:
> >        libstdc++.so.6(GLIBCXX_3.4.4) is needed by
> >        vtk-4.5.0-0.cvs.13.fc4.i386
> >
> >Maybe, anybody knows where I get a suitable package!?
> 
> I tend to find that it's best to compile vtk from source. I know it's a 
> pain, but there are so many options when compiling vtk that it's almost 
> always the case that any pre-built packages don't quite provide what I'm 
> after. For instance I tend to want the Java, Tcl and Python wrappings, 
> the docs, the examples, the patented classes, and so on.
> 
> Although at first vtk does seem a bit daunting to compile from scratch, 
> it's a lot better than it used to be. I find the cvs version tends to 
> work a lot better than the releases (you can find that here: 
> http://www.vtk.org/get-software.php#cvs) and indeed I compiled vtk only 
> a couple of weeks ago on my SL4.1 box and it worked first time (it did 
> take about an hour though!)...
> 
> Rob
> 
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