Viewing VRML files on Ubuntu

[Ari Torhamo]

su, 2011-01-02 kello 04:07 -0800, Tom Sparks kirjoitti:
 
> I have you looked at this list http://x3dgraphics.com/examples/X3dForWebAuthors/X3dResources.html ?

Yes. I couldn't get Octaga Player to work. Got the following error
message (sorry for some Finnish language, can't log out now to change
the system language):

chcon: ei voi ottaa vastaan osittaisia muutoksia otsikoimattomaan
tiedostoon ”/usr/lib/octagaplayer/libapplication.so”
OCTAGA_LIBDIR: /usr/lib/octagaplayer
OCTAGA_SHAREDIR: /usr/share/octagaplayer
libopenal.so.0: jaettua objektitiedostoa ei voi avata: Tiedostoa tai
hakemistoa ei oleari at mung-pascript

- The first Finnish text is something like "can't recieve partial
changes to the headerless file... 
- the second one is "can't open shared object file: File or folder
doesn't exist"

It seems to me that the error might a missing dependency.

Both Octaga Player and Bitmanagement's BS Contact are for pay software
and I would like to find a free solution, as I'm not going to spend a
lot of time viewing 3D models. Others are mainly for Windows (other than
OpenVRML and FreeWRL, which I tried earlier).

I had missed View3dscene. Couldn't get it to run though. One is supposed
to run it from the command line, but apparently I don't quite remember
how to do that. I tried to run the executable, but got "command not
found". Now I understand why there were so few success stories on the
net about viewing VRML files on Linux :-/
 

Thanks for trying to help.

-Ari-