[Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#499918: Bug#499918: Bug#499918: octave-vrml: "freewrl" is not packaged in Debian

Thomas Weber thomas.weber.mail at gmail.com
Wed Sep 24 06:38:42 UTC 2008


Am Dienstag, den 23.09.2008, 22:30 +0200 schrieb Thomas Weber:
> On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 06:30:37PM +0200, Dietrich.Brunn at pruftechnik.com wrote:
> > Package: octave-vrml
> > Version: 1.0.6-2
> > Severity: serious
> > Justification: Policy 3.5
> > 
> > When calling a vrml function from octave the error
> >   sh: freewrl: command not found
> >   cmd = freewrl        /tmp/octave_vrml_output.wrl
> >   vrml_browse : Can't start browser 'freewrl'. Is it installed?
> > occurs. I could not find a package in Debian which contains freewrl.
> > 
> > Possible solutions:
> > - Modify this error message, so it contains a link, where to download 
> > freewrl
> >   & update Package description.
> > - A not so nice, but working replacement for freewrl is whitedune

I've overlooked this one; that might be an option.

	Thomas






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