Viewing VRML files on Ubuntu

[Ric Moore]

On Sun, 2011-01-02 at 17:57 +0200, Ari Torhamo wrote:
> 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 :-/

If you didn't install the executable in someplace in the path
like /usr/bin or /usr/local/bin, then to execute the binary or script in
it's present directory just use: ./nameofbinary  on the command line.
It's the ./ that tells the OS it is OK to run the binary from it's
present location, instead of an official binary directory. Hope that
helps. Ric


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