install problems

Installation
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Dear All,

I’m trying to install panda3D on my Ubuntu 13.10 laptop (64bit). I don’t have nvidia graphics (I have intel integrated) so none of the .deb files seem to be right.

So I grabbed the source from this site for version 1.8.1 and compiled using the makepanda system:

makepanda.py --nothing --use-python --use-ode --installer

This built a .deb file. I installed the dependencies that I could work out and installed the .deb using:

dpkg -i panda3d1.8

This worked fine (after installing some more dependencies).

However, I can’t run the example files… The error message is:
“”"

DirectStart: Starting the game.
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "Tut-Asteroids.py", line 13, in <module>
    import direct.directbase.DirectStart
  File "/usr/share/panda3d/direct/directbase/DirectStart.py", line 3, in <module>
    from direct.showbase import ShowBase
  File "/usr/share/panda3d/direct/showbase/ShowBase.py", line 14, in <module>
    __builtin__.config = getConfigShowbase()
NameError: name 'getConfigShowbase' is not defined

“”"
Can anyone help?

Thank you,

llew

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By adding --nothing, you compiled without support for almost all Panda features, including the “direct” modules, which you need for running most of the Python samples. That’s why you’re getting this error. I suggest building with --everything instead.

Keep in mind that none of the distributed .deb’s actually require nvidia. They do require nvidia-cg-toolkit, which you need to use shaders regardless of whether or not you have an nvidia card.

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Hi rdb,

Thank you for the fast response. That worked perfectly apart from needing to disable bullet due to an error during compile (the option to do so isn’t in the INSTALL-MK file yet but to be fair that file does say that it may not be up-to-date and it was in the --help output).

Thank you again,

Llew