AG3 for Ubuntu 10.10, "maverick meerkat"
Overview
The packages available here for an AG3
toolkit installation are made on and for the Ubuntu release
10.10, named
Maverick Meerkat.
Please consult the Issues section below before proceeding with
installation!
Please advise of any problems to the contact email address below.
Installation
Firstly,
add the the UQVislab apt repository public key to your system (
instructions here).
Now add
UQVislab to your list of download repositories by one of the following
methods -
1. manually create a file
/etc/apt/sources.list.d/uqvislab.list
with the following entries:
deb
http://www.vislab.uq.edu.au/debuntu maverick/
deb-src
http://www.vislab.uq.edu.au/debuntu maverick/
or 2. add those lines to your existing
/etc/apt/sources.list file
or 3. add those lines in the
Third
Party
Software
tab of the
Settings->Repositories
widget of
Synaptic
or 4. run this command in a shell:
sudo
wget http://www.vislab.uq.edu.au/debuntu/sources.list.d/maverick.list -O
/etc/apt/sources.list.d/uqvislab.list
To complete the installation using
Synaptic,
open the Synaptic Package Manager and reload the package
information (use the
Reload
button, or select
Reload Package
Information from the
Edit
menu). Now
search for and
install the
accessgrid3.2
package (it will be found in the
AccessGrid section). A number
of prerequisite packages should also be automatically installed.
Alternatively, the installation may be completed from the command line,
with
apt-get, by running the
commands:
sudo
apt-get update
sudo apt-get install accessgrid3.2
Everything should be set to go now - run VenueClient
or VenueClient -d from a shell or run it from the
"Access Grid 3" entry in the main menu (assuming default Gnome desktop).
Issues
Ubuntu 10.10 (as well as 10.4) uses an incompatible
version of
Twisted, one of
the libraries used by the accessgrid3.2 package. This means that some
AG features e.g. SharedPresentation, will
not work. For fully featured AG
functionality until this is resolved, please consider using an earlier
version of Ubuntu e.g. Ubuntu 9.10 (
karmic
koala).
Access to the UQVislab apt repository
now supports signed downloads. Before installing anything, see the
instructions to import UQVislab public key.
Integration of
rat with the
Pulse Audio system can be problematic. A
potential
fix is available that may help.
Can't access video devices? Check that you're a member of the "video"
group, via either the System->Administration->Users & Groups
widget or by running the
adduser
command in a terminal e.g.
sudo adduser fred
video
(would add the user fred to the video group)
Otherwise, no known issues. Please report any problems to the contact
email below
Contact
Please send any comments, advice etc.,
to Chris Willing <c.willing _at_ uq.edu.au>