The 'draw3d' function defined in the 'draw' package for maxima is failing. Before I file a bug report, I'd like to find out what package has the bug. (Or find out if the bug be user error. :-)
I am running Debian unstable with maxima, vtk6, and tcl-vtk6 installed, according to documentation 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 It looks to me as though there is something at least a bit broken about the names of the libraries installed by the libvtk6.3 Debian package, but I'm not an expert in library naming. If you have an idea of what I might do to rectify the situation, then please respond to all, because I am not a subscriber to the list. Anyway, here is the error that I saw inside maxima: (%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" -- Thomas E. Vaughan
