Fr0st passed 1000 downloads today! I know it’s just a number, but I can’t help feeling a bit excited about it, a bit proud. Thanks for trying out Fr0st and thanks for sticking with it, even if it still has some bugs. In a month or so I’ll be picking up development more actively again — the 1.2 release is bound to follow soon after.
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May I ask for linux screenshots?
Regards, a fractal flame lover.
Sure, here’s a screenshot from Ubuntu 9.04 (Don’t have a more recent one handy):
It won’t run, on Debian Lenny:
amanita@lightstar:~/fr0st-1.1-src$ ./fr0st.py
/home/amanita/fr0st-1.1-src/fr0stlib/__init__.py:848: Warning: ‘with’ will become a reserved keyword in Python 2.6
Traceback (most recent call last):
File “./fr0st.py”, line 23, in
from fr0stlib.gui import Fr0stApp
File “/home/amanita/fr0st-1.1-src/fr0stlib/__init__.py”, line 848
with open(path, “w”) as f:
^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax
amanita@lightstar:~/fr0st-1.1-src$
Looks like you need python2.6 😉
Ok, managed to install python2.6 from testing/unstable repository, and other deps like numpy.
Manually moved libflam3.so and other stuff into usr/lib.
Now I get this:
lightstar:/home/amanita/fr0st-1.1-src# ./fr0st.py
Traceback (most recent call last):
File “./fr0st.py”, line 23, in
from fr0stlib.gui import Fr0stApp
File “/home/amanita/fr0st-1.1-src/fr0stlib/__init__.py”, line 28, in
from fr0stlib.pyflam3 import Genome, RandomContext, flam3_nvariations, \
File “/home/amanita/fr0st-1.1-src/fr0stlib/pyflam3/__init__.py”, line 24, in
from _flam3 import *
File “/home/amanita/fr0st-1.1-src/fr0stlib/pyflam3/_flam3.py”, line 147, in
libflam3.flam3_colorhist.argtypes = [POINTER(BaseGenome), c_int, POINTER(c_double)]
File “/usr/lib/python2.6/ctypes/__init__.py”, line 366, in __getattr__
func = self.__getitem__(name)
File “/usr/lib/python2.6/ctypes/__init__.py”, line 371, in __getitem__
func = self._FuncPtr((name_or_ordinal, self))
AttributeError: /usr/lib/libflam3.so: undefined symbol: flam3_colorhist
lightstar:/home/amanita/fr0st-1.1-src#
Looks like you’re using an older flam3 version… You need to get it like this:
svn co http://flam3.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/src flam3-2.8-src -r 5
The script found in https://fr0st.wordpress.com/2010/05/22/installing-fr0st-in-ubuntu/ does this automatically
Ok, switched to Ubuntu (debian like anyway), installed Fr0st and it is working, but… I see essential text fields missing like this screenshot:
Hmmm, I don’t know what could be causing that. Do you get any error messages? They would be visible in the log area of the script editor.