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Perhaps you before attempting to compile should try the next method to install MathMap in Ubuntu based distributions (In Fedora you have packages available):
viewtopic.php?f=9&t=7515
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After a long and painful experience:
https://groups.google.com/group/mathmap ... 555a3d9f8c
I have been able to do it!

Basically this guide is for Ubuntu, but surely it can be used as a guide for other distributions.
Install the basics for compiling and get mathmap from git:


We obtain the current Mathmap version from git. Open a terminal and run:

When the files download is complete:


It is recommended that when you perform the three steps to download mathmap from git, you pack (zip, tar, etc.) "mathmap-src" folder and save it. So if you get errors when compiling then remove "mathmap-src" folder and start from scratch. It is usually not necessary start from scratch, but sometimes more errors occur.

Now enter to the folder "mathmap-src" and read the "INSTALL" file (Requirements) to find dependencies that are required to compile. Install the dependencies. Also if you lack any dependency then the terminal messages will inform you. In Ubuntu dependencies are:


And dependencies to compile "libnoise" are:


Open the terminal and go to "/mathmap-src" path. Run "make":

You get the next error at the end: "make: *** [libnoise] Error 2"
But run make is needed to "libnoisesrc-1.0.0.zip" be uncompressed. In your file browser you go to into "/mathmap-src/libnoise/noise/doc/" folder and copy "Doxyfile" to "/mathmap-src/libnoise/noise/doc/html/" folder. You can read "/mathmap-src/libnoise/noise/doc/readme.txt" that recommend copying other files too, but they already are in that folder.
In terminal go to "/mathmap-src/libnoise/noise/" and run "make":


Now if you try to compile Mathmap on Ubuntu you will get gtksourceview error:
mathmap.c:55:41: error fatal: gtksourceview/gtksourceview.h: file not found
that is because on Ubuntu libgtksourceview-2.0-dev are instaled on "/usr/include/gtksourceview-2.0/gtksourceview/" and mathmap.c try to find it on "/usr/include/gtksourceview/". You need link to this folder:


As you know, the plugins must be installed on the same path where GIMP is installed. MathMap install filters and binary in /usr by default. If you install MathMap in /usr and Gimp is installed in /usr/local then you try to use MathMap you can get a message like:
Could not find template file `new_template.c'.
Must be in one of the following paths:
`/home/user/.gimp-2.8/mathmap'
`/usr/local/share/gimp/2.0/mathmap'.
Mathmap try to find files in "/usr/local"
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You need to see where you have installed Gimp :


*>If you get something like "/usr/bin/gimp" you proceed with the next "make" and “sudo make install” in this tutorial.
(In this way the Mathmap binary will be installed in "/usr/bin" and filters in "/usr/share/gimp/2.0/mathmap/expressions")
But if after MathMap installation you do not find MathMap in GIMP over Filters > Generic > MathMap, maybe because you've had the same problem as me: GIMP try to find MathMap in “/usr/lib/gimp/2.0/plug-ins” instead of “/usr/bin”. In fact, the installer should be responsible for generating these symbolic links but it does not generate them. If this has happened, you should link the plugin to the correct path after finishing the installation of MathMap (only do the next symbolic link if after installation with "make" and "sudo make install" you don't find MathMap in GIMP):


*>If you get something like "/usr/local/bin/gimp" then you have to edit /mathmap-src/Makefile replacing "PREFIX = /usr" by "PREFIX = /usr/local"
(In this way the Mathmap binary will be installed in "/usr/local/bin" and filters in "/usr/local/share/gimp/2.0/mathmap/expressions")
Now you proceed with the next "make" and “sudo make install”.
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Now open the terminal and go to "/mathmap-src" path and run "make":

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You can get the following error (or maybe not):
In file included from compiler.h:33:0,
from mathmap_common.c:47:
userval.h:30:26: error fatal: libgimp/gimp.h: No such file or directory
compilation terminated.
make: *** [mathmap_common.o] Error 1
Because "userval.h" try to find "gimp.h" in "/usr/include/libgimp/gimp.h" and you have installed "gimp.h" on "/usr/include/gimp-2.0/libgimp/". Surely you will get more errors then because you have installed the libraries in "/usr/include/gimp-2.0/libgimp" instead than "/usr/include/libgimp". Then you have to link the libraries where the MathMap try to find it:

Then run "make" again.
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And finally install:


Instead "sudo make install" on Ubuntu you can use "sudo checkinstall" if you know how to use it for build a simple .deb package.

You can find the filter in GIMP: Filters > Generic > MathMap

You can get MathMap Extra filters from here:
http://www.gimpchat.com/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=4558
The extra filters can be installed locally in "/home/YOUR_USER/.gimp-2.8/mathmap/expressions/"
You must create these folders if you do not have them there.
Regards.

Thanks for excellent instructions!

Thread stuck.

Hi there! Thank you very much for this tutorial, I've been looking for this for a long time...
I'm having some problems on the first "make" step. It returns me this error:

In file included from compiler.h:33:0,
from mathmap_common.c:47:
userval.h:30:26: erro fatal: libgimp/gimp.h: Arquivo ou diretório não encontrado
compilação terminada.
make: ** [mathmap_common.o] Erro 1

Do you have any idea of how to fiz this?
I'm on Ubuntu 12.04, with Gimp 2.8

Thanks anyway!

Sorry, the dependency is "libgimp2.0-dev". Install this package and try again.
Also I edited the tutorial adding the dependencies needed to compile libnoise.

It is recommended that when you perform the three steps to download mathmap from git, you pack (zip, tar, etc.) "mathmap-src" folder and save it. So if you get errors when compiling then remove "mathmap-src" folder and start from scratch. It is usually not necessary start from scratch, but sometimes more errors occur.

@wetah, I edited the tutorial again and I have included many possibilities. If you already had installed "libgimp2.0-dev" and also you had obtained this error, you probably have been what I have mentioned..

I recommend carefully reading the tutorial and experiment at your own. There are many possible paths which may be GIMP and libraries installed, so that many problems can occur in each case.
I never had so many problems as MathMap compiling something in GNU/Linux.
Regards.

Thanks for posting this. I had some problems with gtksourceview but I figured it out. It wasn't the path, as you mentioned, but the version. Thanks to Molly for sending me this way.

Hello.
What is the version/distribution that you have used? What path should be used in that version?

I wasn't very clear. You were right about the path. That's just not what caused the problem. Not knowing enough about these things, I saw I had gtksourceview 3.0 installed in synaptic. I figured that should work. I'd just change the version number in the command:
sudo ln -s /usr/include/gtksourceview-2.0/gtksourceview /usr/include/gtksourceview
Obviously, that didn't work and I had to install 2.0. I use Linux Mint. So, it worked well that this guide was written for Ubuntu.

No need to learn to use, i may explain how to use in less then a line :

"Normal" compilation has 3 steps compile, make, and make install : the only difference using Checkinstall is that in the very last step you type in the console "checkinstall" instead then "make install"

The advantage is also that the pack could be shared..in theory may even be exported as pack for other linux distro,

but in practice the packages created with checkinstall should be better tested on somebody else computer if you want to share, even for the same distro because not always checkinstall check too well the dependencies.

But try a package done in that way is not risky , on a different computer with same OS or it will work and so no problem
or will just refuse to install (usually with a error message about missing libraries )

and usually in the last case will be sufficient install the library indicated in the error message, and the checkinstall package will install

I don't suppose there is an OSX mathmap package that works 'out of the box'?

it was a standalone version but very obsolete

Thanks a lot YAFU, I wouldn't have done it without you.

The guide is a bit difficult to follow and understand, so I'm glad that it has been helpful for you

I couldn't locate any errors you mentioned-> "gtksourceview error" and regarding "gimp.h"
so i went for "make install" I got this error -> ln -s /usr/bin/mathmap /usr/lib/gimp/2.0/plug-ins/mathmap
ln: failed to create symbolic link `/usr/lib/gimp/2.0/plug-ins/mathmap': File exists
make: *** [install] Error 1

Though I see mathmap in gimp-generics... but without any filters in it.

Could you help.

The filters belongs to your directory:

~/.gimp-2.8/mathmap/expressions

in subdirectories as they are in the source tree of mathmap under "examples".
So copy the content of the sources "examples" directory to ~/.gimp-2.8/mathmap/expressions

Hello. What GNU/Linux distro are you using?
You must have performed the symlink step before attempting to install.
You should only do this:

if after installing Mathmap you don't find it in GIMP. But for that you should have the "mathmap" file in "/usr/bin/". Maybe you had installed it on some attempt.
I don't know, I guess is what may have happened. Anyway, as you seem to have already installed the binary in some attempt, you try first with was recommended by Onkel Hatti.

Or you delete the file "mathmap" from "/usr/lib/gimp/2.0/plug-ins/" (you need permissions). Then try installing again with "sudo make install". Only if the installation was successful and when you open Gimp if you do not find Mathmap, you make the symbolic link.

THANK YOU VERY MUCH!

It worked here. Ubuntu 12.10, 64bits
I'll finally write my arcticle about filters on Gimp in my blog. I would like to have your permission to post there a translation of your compiling instructions for Brazilian Portuguese.

It's that OK for you?

Thanks, I been wanting to use mathmap again since a while.

It is good that this guide is still useful even with current distros.


Sorry for the late response. Of course, you can translate and publish this guide elsewhere. If possible, you include this GimpChat link as source.

I followed the tutorial and into konsole I have this output:

Plug-in is present in Filters→Generic→Mathmap but not work