Error while installing ODDLOT using the docker build about covise

[uwewoessner]

Sorry, I can't help here. The issue is that OpenSceneGraph is missing. as far as I can tell the docker build script should have installed OpenSceneGraph but that apparently failed. Please check the installation of OpenSceneGraph or ask in the docker build group.

[aumuell]

If you could not solve the problem, please bring up the issue in the repo of the docker container: this is not something that we can fix by editing COVISE source code or build instructions.

[aumuell]

I just tried the docker build, and it worked for me exactly as documented. One should note though that the docker image will not contain COVISE, just its dependencies - including OpenSceneGraph and OpenCRG. After building the container, it has to be launched via docker-compose, and then you have to execute the listed commands for downloading and building COVISE from source - and this has to be done inside the container. It will map your host's Download directory into the container, and you are instructed to build COVISE in that directory, so that the build persists between launches of the container.

You mention that your host OS is Ubuntu 18.04, the same OS that has been used for this container. Did you, by accident, try to execute the commands for building COVISE directly on your host? This would explain why it cannot find OpenSceneGraph.

Given that your host OS matches the container OS, it should be possible to install COVISE dependencies on your host by replicating the commands from Dockerfile . Then it should be possible to execute the COVISE installation as described directly on your host, without a need for docker.