Debian etch: Installing/Compiling Neuron

[tomte]

Hi!

I am trying to find a way to install Neuron on a PC with Debian 4 (etch).
Unfortunately i couldn't manage to find any Debian packages so i trieed to compile the nrn & iv packages, following the installation protocol. An this is where i run into a problem. The installation of InterViews worked fine but installation of Neuron (step 3 in the documentation) left me with an error message after entering:
make

readline.c: In function 'rl_read_key':
readline.c:819: error: invalid storage class for function 'next_macro_key'
readline.c: In function 'rl_dispatch':
readline.c:951: error: invalid storage class for function 'with_macro_input'

(and later)
readline.c: In function 'rl_parse_and_bind':
readline.c:5710: error: invalid storage class for function 'substring_member_of_array'

Any idea what to do?
Are there any Debian packages available? The Link to Balbir Thomas' files doesn't work any more.

Regards,
Thomas

[hines]

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readline.c:819: error: invalid storage class for function 'next_macro_key'

These days, most machines already have a libreadline... library and so that directory is skipped and never gets compiled.
So see if you have a system version of readline by checking with

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 find /usr/lib -name libreadline\* -print

or, if you have a 64bit machine, with

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find /usr/lib64 -name libreadline\* -print

and if you do not then I think you will have no trouble finding a debbian package for it and installing it and then starting over from the ./configure step with nrn.

Just curious. Is it unsafe or difficult to use the 32 or 64 bit rpm files for installation on a debbian machine? If that has a chance you can get them from:
http://www.neuron.yale.edu/ftp/neuron/versions/alpha/

[hines]

I just force compiled my readline source code on an x86-64 with gcc 3.4.6 and got no errors. What is the gcc version you are using (you can find out with

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gcc --version

). I'll fix the sources if I can reproduce the error.

[Nin]

I wanted to use the last version of Neuron in Debian, so I transformed the *rpm package into a *deb, and it worked fine for me.

You can find the deb version in my website to download, just here:

http://neurohost.org/index.php/Special:Imagelist

[Nin]

I changed the location, so it's easier to find:
Here the Neuron 5.9 in .deb format ( 4.2 MB)

http://neurohost.org/index.php/Downloads

I hope it works!

Regards!