Installing Picviz

Fedora core 6

These instructions are valid with Picviz version 0.2.3 a newly installed Fedora core 6.

Install packages

  • To have Picviz usable with the pcv command line tool, and able to generate png images 
    # yum install gcc
# yum install gcc-c++
# yum install bison
# yum install flex
# yum install cmake
# yum install libtool-ltdl-devel
# yum install plplot-devel
# yum install plplot-gnome
  • To have the Python bindings working 
    # yum install python-devel

Compile

  • Decompress: 
    # tar xf picviz-0.2.3.tar.gz
  • Compile: 
    # make
  • Install: 
    # make install
# echo "/usr/local/lib" > /etc/ld.so.conf.d/picviz.conf
# ldconfig

Test

  • SVG output 
    # pcv -Tsvg samples/test1.pcv
  • Gnome canvas 
    $ pcv -Tplplot samples/test1.pcv

Plotting Options:
 < 1> xwin       X-Window (Xlib)
 < 2> gcw        Gnome Canvas Widget
 < 3> plmeta     PLplot Native Meta-File
 < 4> ps         PostScript File (monochrome)
 < 5> psc        PostScript File (color)
 < 6> xfig       Fig file
 < 7> hp7470     HP 7470 Plotter File (HPGL Cartridge, Small Plotter)
 < 8> hp7580     HP 7580 Plotter File (Large Plotter)
 < 9> lj_hpgl    HP Laserjet III, HPGL emulation mode
 <10> pbm        PDB (PPM) Driver
 <11> png        PNG file
 <12> jpeg       JPEG file
 <13> null       Null device
 <14> mem        User-supplied memory device
 <15> gif        GIF file
 <16> psttf      PostScript File (monochrome)
 <17> psttfc     PostScript File (color)

Enter device number or keyword: 2

Ubuntu

The instruction below valid for Picviz 0.5(including GUI) on Ubuntu 8.04 or later.

Installing dependencies via Ubuntu packages

# sudo apt-get install cmake 
# sudo apt-get install python-all-dev 
# sudo apt-get install python-qt4
# sudo apt-get install libevent-dev 
# sudo apt-get install libpcre3-dev 
# sudo apt-get install libcairo2-dev
  • Note: If you are using Ubuntu 8.04, you need to use cmake 2.6 backport which is available  here

Compile & Install

# tar xvzf picviz-0.5.tar.gz
# cd picviz-0.5
# make
# sudo make install
  • Note: You can change install directory prefix, do this before make 
# cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr/local/stow/picviz-0.5.0

Build Python Binding

  • In picviz source directory 
# cd src/libpicviz/bindings/python/
# sudo python ./setup.py install

Build Gui Frontend

  • In picviz source directory 
# cd src/frontend
# sudo python ./setup.py install
  • To launch the python gui 
# picviz-gui

FreeBSD

Since version 0.4, picviz is ported to FreeBSD. To install picviz, simply run 

# cd /usr/ports/graphics/picviz
# make install clean
  • Or using package method 
# pkg_add -vr picviz
  • You can also find the prebuilt package  here for different version/platform of FreeBSD.

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