Ubuntu 10.10 installation

General Discussion
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Hi
I am new to Ubuntu. What shall be the codename for the installation =>
deb-src ppa.launchpad.net/panda3d/ppa/ubuntu jaunty main
I tried meerkat but it said the package cannot be found.
Thank you !

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deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/panda3d/ppa/ubuntu maverick main
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thank you rdb.

Now I try to get panda3d-runtime, it said:
libtinyxml2.5.3 (>=2.5.3-3) but it is not installable

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I don’t know. Maybe you could post the full error message?

Or you could always try the latest daily version, maybe that will work. Add this:

deb http://archive.panda3d.org/ubuntu/ maverick-dev main
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…get another error about libssl0.9.8 (>=0.9.8m-1) …

6

well, I gave up. Not even able to install 1.7 SDK…missing libcvl (OpenCV library ?).
Obviously it is for more advance users.

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Uh, are you sure you’re using Ubuntu Maverick, and added the right repositories?

Perhaps you need to enable more components (like ‘universe’) in your package manager?

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I am not sure. The latest is Maverick, right ? It is a bit frustrated. …

I will try later the ‘universe’ suggestion.

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Open System > About Ubuntu. That’ll show you your Ubuntu version.

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You definitely need to make sure that all repositories are activated. You can use Synaptic and select the Repositories… option. It should be the first tab.
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…It turns out that I am using lucid, not something else.
Thank you for your help. I am too stupid.

But why not giving a more intelligent script for the installation procedure ?

Anyway, I got the SDK up and running well. Performance seems a bit better on Linux. But I find that the ray effect of the fish demo in demomaster is quite different from that in Windows. Due to version 1.7 ? … not sure.

The web runtime, I got it installed too. But I find 2 demos in the forum to test it out, both of them give me a blank screen. Bad luck or wrong installation ? Not sure.

Since I am more interested toward Android development, it is too bad that I have to give up Panda3D. It would be very nice to see panda to support Android one day.

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I’ve looked into porting Panda to the Android, I just don’t own an Android phone myself.

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It is very important to support Android in the coming years.
Would it be more than porting for Panda3d to have a future in Android ?
I can see a more natural migration for jme but not panda3d. Do you have an idea of this migration to make it competitive against other engine ?