Package: maxima Version: 5.38.0-3 Severity: normal The 'draw3d' function defined int he 'draw' package for maxima is failing.
In a conversation with me on debian-user, Nicolas George suggests that maxima should be referring to the library through the SONAME, not through the file ending with '.so'. That is, one should not have to install the corresponding '-dev' package. Being not too bright, I had worked around this by manually making a few symlinks via a shell script. It seems that I might better have worked around the problem by installing an appropriate '-dev' package, but I don't know what the right package would be. There seems to be no 'tcl-vtk6-dev' package in Debian unstable. But I didn't look hard to find an appropriately named package. I am running Debian unstable with maxima, vtk6, and tcl-vtk6 installed according to documation here: http://riotorto.users.sourceforge.net/vtk/ The error output (pasted below) refers to a file that does not exist: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libvtkCommonCoreTCL-6.3.so Using 'dpkg -S libvtkCommonCoreTCL', I find libvtk6.3: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libvtkCommonCoreTCL-6.3.so.6.3.0 libvtk6.3: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libvtkCommonCoreTCL-6.3.so.6.3 Here is the error message: (%i8) draw3d(color=white,elevation_grid(m,0,0,10,10)); (%o8) done (%i9) couldn't load file "/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libvtkCommonCoreTCL-6.3.so": /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libvtkCommonCoreTCL-6.3.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory attempt to provide package vtkCommonCoreTCL 6.3 failed: no version of package vtkCommonCoreTCL provided attempt to provide package vtkcommoncore 6.3 failed: no version of package vtkcommoncore provided Error in startup script: attempt to provide package vtk 6.3 failed: no version of package vtk provided ("package ifneeded vtk 6.3" script) invoked from within "package.orig require vtk" ("eval" body line 1) invoked from within "eval package.orig $args" (procedure "package" line 2) invoked from within "package require vtk" -- System Information: Debian Release: stretch/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 4.6.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968) (ignored: LC_ALL set to C) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages maxima depends on: ii libc6 2.23-4 ii libgmp10 2:6.1.1+dfsg-1 ii libreadline6 6.3-8+b4 ii libx11-6 2:1.6.3-1 Versions of packages maxima recommends: ii gnuplot-x11 5.0.4+dfsg1-3 ii maxima-share 5.38.0-3 Versions of packages maxima suggests: ii maxima-doc 5.38.0-3 pn maxima-emacs <none> pn texmacs <none> ii tk [wish] 8.6.0+9 ii xmaxima 5.38.0-3 -- no debconf information
