I've put together a chroot environment of Ubuntu 7.04 that is
currently running off of the master branch. This is useful for those
of us on GNU/Linux who wish to develop against NE and move it on to
new libraries.

This chroot dump is 1.2 GB, so consider yourself warned:
http://diyhpl.us/~bryan/irc/nanoengineer/nanoengineer-chroot.tar.gz

Here's my notes on building the chroot environment:
https://github.com/kanzure/nanoengineer/commit/2a0222063af9b7c2462249...
http://diyhpl.us/~bryan/irc/nanoengineer/nanoengineer-chroot-debootstrap

On a related note, I have mirrored the repository on github, and added
a central README. I think this file could be improved a lot, I just
wanted something resembling a start to an overview of this project.
But there's obviously a lot missing (like acknowledgements, examples,
usage, etc.).

http://github.com/kanzure/nanoengineer#readme

I am also open to ideas about recovering the wiki from the spam storm.
Mark, maybe you have some ideas about that? Are there any long-term
plans for keeping the wiki hosted and operational?

- Bryan
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Oops, I forgot to include usage instructions. Something like this:

wget http://diyhpl.us/~bryan/irc/nanoengineer/nanoengineer-chroot.tar.gz
tar -cvzf nanoengineer-chroot.tar.gz
sudo chroot /path/to/nanoengineer-chroot

Then login as nanoengineeruser (password is "password"):

su nanoengineeruser

Then launch NanoEngineer:

python ~/code/nanoengineer/cad/src/main.py

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Also, I forgot some necessary steps that will assist with making X:

cd /path/to/nanoengineer-chroot
sudo mount -t proc none proc
sudo mount -o bind /tmp tmp

You can test that X is working in your chroot session like (after
su-ing to nanoengineeruser):
echo $DISPLAY
xeyes
glxgears
glxinfo

Again to run it:
python ~/code/nanoengineeruser/cad/src/main.py

Here's an image of it running in a local chroot:
http://heybryan.org/shots/2012-04-30-1131-nanoengineer-chroot.png

Remote chroot with X11 forwarding was surprisingly usable, too.

- Bryan
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Bryan,

First of all, thanks for the great job! Finally someone got it to work on
linux!

There are a couple of inaccuracies though: 1) the archive is actually tar,
not tar.gz, and 2) python ~/code/nanoengineer/cad/src/main.py (you had
"nanoengineeruser")

Other than that, it seems to work fine, albeit maybe a little slower than I
remember it run under Win7 back before SP1 came out and broke everything...

Cheers,
Vasya

Fantastic! I want to run it on Linux as well. Another effort that is needed
is to make NanoEngineer-1 independent of the add in packages
that are deprecated. I will be working on an interface to LAMMPS this
summer along with some other projects in MD.

On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 9:57 AM, Vasilii Artyukhov <darth.va...@gmail.com>wrote:

My current plan is to slowly upgrade the chroot from ubuntu 7.04 to
whatever the next version was. Then, based on whatever errors show up,
I will be adding in new unit tests and fixing the deprecations. I
think there are a few unit tests (from what I've seen), but not
extensive coverage. It would be really great to just dist-upgrade
ubuntu, run tests, check everything out, upgrade again, but this task
will probably be more involved.

- Bryan
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