OpenViBE forum

Hello all,

SHORT VERSION:
New to linux and openvibe, running the latest Mint distro, downloaded the source, and am trying to run the linux-install_dependencies script. I get this error:



Is this something I have to install before-hand or something that should be installed naturally?


LONG VERSION:
I'm a senior EE working on a project with the Emotiv Epoc, previously I had been using the emokit (github.com/qdot/emokit) to extract the EEG data and matlab to process and view it. I've heard about OpenVIBE but never really experienced it before. I also hear that there are some swanky features that go well with the Epoch.

I'm trying to run this on the latest linux Mint 64-bit distro, but I'm very new to working in linux-land and find the experience to be very magical and don't always have a firm understanding of why things work they way they do or what they need to make certain things happen.

So, I downloaded the source code for OpenVibe, read the README and the INSTALL files. First things first, installed glu/glut, then cd scripts, ./linux-install_dependencies. Things were going fine, then I ran into an error with ZLIB_1.2.0. I've attached the pertinent log file.

I was hoping I could get some guidance on where to go from here, even some pointers as to what to do after this problem is overcome (other than 'cp linux-init_env_command-skeleton linux-init_env_command; ./linux-build').

I really appreciate it.



So, I'm new here and to linux.

Hello bdrockwell,

the issue comes from the fact that the script tries to compile the basic dependencies. What it should really do is to detect that Mint is de-facto Ubuntu and use its native package system.

I will do some testing and report back with a solution soon.

One thing you could try (as a quick and dirty fix) however is :

edit the file /etc/lsb-release as root
add a line
# Ubuntu
at the end of the file.

Save the file, delete the scripts/software folder in the openvibe folder and re-launch linux-install_dependencies. This should trick the installer to think that it is on Ubuntu.

Cheers
Jozef

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By the way, this post explains how the platform is detected and handled by the dependencies installation script

Hope this helps,
Regards
Yann

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