Gnofract 4D

[Rava]

Gnofract 4D (for XFCe Porteus)

"An advanced fractal generation program, which draws the Mandelbrot and Julia sets and infinitely many more, including Fractint, UltraFractal and your own custom formulas. True color rendering, antialiasing, unlimited undo, and a quick and easy interf[ace]"
Source: http://sourceforge.net/p/gnofract4d/wiki/Home/


"Gnofract 4D is a free, open source program which allows anyone to create beautiful images called fractals. The images are automatically created by the computer based on mathematical principles. These include the Mandelbrot and Julia sets and many more. You don't need to do any math: you can explore a universe of images just using a mouse. It runs on Unix-based systems such as Linux and FreeBSD and can also be run on Mac OS X. "
Source: http://gnofract4d.sourceforge.net/


I miss playing with Mandelbrot and Julia on Porteus.

[Rava]

I tried compiling it, but it won't run.

I installed on 2.1 x86-64 XFCE Porteus pygtk-2.24.0-x86_64-1.xzm and python-2.7.3-x86_64-2.xzm

But not even pytgtk-demo will run:

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$ pygtk-demo 
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/pygtk-demo", line 7, in <module>
    execfile(os.path.join(pygtklibdir, "pygtk-demo.py"))
  File "/usr/lib64/pygtk/2.0/pygtk-demo.py", line 13, in <module>
    import pygtk
ImportError: No module named pygtk

Any ideas why that is so?

And sure, gnofract4d also fails:

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$ ./gnofract4d
Can't find PyGTK. You need to install it before you can run Gnofract 4D.

[fanthom]

pygtk usually needs other deps resolved. please make sure you have:

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python,pycairo,pygobject,pygtk

some other deps may also be missing so please read the output message carefully.

[Rava]

pygtk usually needs other deps resolved. please make sure you have:

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python,pycairo,pygobject,pygtk

some other deps may also be missing so please read the output message carefully.

Ohh... when I use PPM to solve the dependencies, this is what it tells me for python:

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db44-4.4.20-x86_64-3.xzm
python-2.7.3-x86_64-2.xzm
tcl-8.5.11-x86_64-1.xzm
tk-8.5.11-x86_64-1.xzm

And this for pygtk:

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pygtk-2.24.0-x86_64-1.xzm

So, it seems, there is some fixing needed so that PPM knows about pycairo,pygobject (and python) for pygtk as well...

My version: Port 2.1 x86-66 (finale version)
Version of PPM: "2. July 2013."
Updating PPM told me I have "the most recent versions of all PPM items..."

[Rava]

//update

Now i installed all the modules you told me, and now the error is:

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$ ./gnofract4d 
A fatal error occurred:
	Error reported by C compiler:sh: gcc: command not found

A bit of an overkill. to have the need to install all of 05-devel.xzm, just because Gnofract needs gcc...

I try to just copy gcc and its linker and hope this is enough, but first I take a look into the python code to see if I get some more info...

[wread]

@Rava

Do you have 07-printing.zxm installed in base? It contains the basic python & co.

In Porteus, if you can, try to avoid python programs, because they spam somehow and are interpreted=slow.
And that is against the philosophy of Porteus...Maybe there are fractal programs that do not use python!

Viele Grüsse!

[Rava]

@wread

I found out which modules I have to install as well to get it running; I try to get that info together and will post an update here... seems I then need to upload the Gnofract 4D x86-64 itself, since there is no x86-64 package for slackware available...


But me was disappointed by it. It computes quite okay, seems most of that stuff is done via C and not via python, probably python is just for GUI...
But it lacks neat abilities to alter the colour palettes...

Does anyone know good GUI driven fractal programs? That don't need as much dependencies, cause the whole python package is quite the overload, considering the size of the actual program...

[donald]

@Rava

http://www.linuxlinks.com/article/20080 ... /XaoS.html

http://www.linuxlinks.com/article/20101 ... ctint.html

http://www.linuxlinks.com/article/20101 ... qtive.html

....may the "fractal" be with you...

[Rava]

^
Arghh all three sound neat... *le sigh*

[Hamza]

Successfully resolved all deps and got memory corruption ...

http://hamza.porteus.org/snapshot220.png