Archive for April, 2009

compiling Ogre3D on a Ubuntu machine

Wednesday, April 29th, 2009

first off all you need to install the following packages:

sudo apt-get install libfreeimage-dev libfreeimage3 pkg-config build-essential libtool make automake g++ gcc cpp make automake1.9 libtool libsdl1.2-dev libdevil-dev libfreetype6-dev libgtkmm-dev libcegui* libpng12-dev libmng-dev libtiff4-dev liblcms1-dev libpng3 libjpeg62-dev libglade* libzzip-dev libxaw7-dev libopenexr-dev libopenexr6 nvidia-cg-toolkit checkinstall libcppunit-1.12-1 libcppunit-dev libcppunit-doc libxxf86vm-dev libtiff4-dev and libmng-dev libois1 libois-dev libpcre++-dev

issuing

./bootstrap
./configure
make
make install

in the right directory will compile the beast.

Ubuntu Jaunty Jackolope released

Thursday, April 23rd, 2009

The new version of ubuntu has been released. It contains the new Kernel 2.6.28, OpenOffice 3.0, Gnome 2.26.1, X-server 1.6 and new versions of other components. Furthermore the notification system has been reworked and the booting time reduced.
An existing system can be upgraded via the update-manager:

sudo update-manager -c 

New install/live CDs/DVDs can be downloaded from the ubuntu homepage.