[clug-talk] BRLCad

[Shawn]

Thanks for the input Neil.

You know, I checked the /usr/brlcad/ia32/bin folder for the mged prgram, and 
it wasn't there (honest).  After reading your email, it was...  So I have the 
symbolic link created, and am playing....

So far, I've created a sphere and can spin it.. :D

Shawn

On Saturday 08 January 2005 23:57, Neil Bower wrote:
> This happened to me as well. I'm running it on Mandrake 10.1 Download
>
> > So, I checked out the manual at
> > http://brlcad.org/VolumeII-Introduction_to_MGED.pdf, and tried to run the
> > "mged" program.  oops, can't find it.  It's not under the source folder,
> > or under the installation directory.  It just doesn't seem to exist.
>
> You will need to do one of three things:
>
> 1) Add to your path the directory where the program resides
> "/usr/brlcad/ia32/bin"
>
> 2)Run the program from it's location "/usr/brlcad/ia32/bin/mged"
>
> 3) Create a sym link in an appropiate directory back to the executable. I
> placed mine as such:
> "ln -s /usr/brlcad/ia32/bin/mged /usr/bin/mged"
>
> The above are assuming that you had used the --prefix=/usr/brlcad/ia32 when
> you performed the configure.
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> I have managed to get their GUI running, but that's as far as I have gotten
> so far.
>