[argyllcms] Re: VRML files on linux

On Sat, 2009-02-28 at 16:52 +0100, Karl H. Beckers wrote:
> Am Samstag, den 28.02.2009, 16:37 +0100 schrieb Geert Janssens:
> > ...
> > Thank you for your reply.
> > 
> > Do you have a link where I can download vrmlview ?
> > 
> > Google led me to some Norsk firm, but I didn't find the vrmlviewer on their 
> > site (anymore ?).
> 
> Hmm,
> 
> try here:
> 
> http://www.km.kongsberg.com/ks/web/nokbg0237.nsf/AllWeb/71E067CF8BBC3653C12572DB00451646?OpenDocument
> 
> HTH,
> 
> Karl.
> 

I was able to install it by  using the above link and following it where
it led.   Some warnings.  The file vrmlview_linux.tar.gz has three files
in it: LICENSE.TXT,  README,  vrmlview, which get dumped in the current
directory.  README says incorrectly that vrmlview is the `windoze'
version, but in fact it is a Linux binary.   Unfortunately, when I
executed it, it told me it couldn't find the library libstdc
++-libc6.1-1.so.2.  I did have a later library, so I created a symbolic
link from the above name to what I had, and it ran.

I also had previously managed to view a vrml file using firefox.  I had
to add the appropriate openvrml packages to my Fedora 9 system,
including the openvrml browser plugin package.  But I'm not sure whether
the firefox plugin allowed the same number of controls as vrml.
-- 
Leonard Evens <len@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Mathematics Department, Northwestern University

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