I’m just testing several different graph visualization softwares for my graph course in the next trimester. One of the software I would like to test is tulip, which is currently in the opensuse-oss repository.
Tulip is currently installed:
i | libtulip | A library for handling large graphs | package
i | libtulip-ogl | A library for displaying graph in a GL context | package
i | libtulip-qt4 | A set of Qt Widgets for tulip/tulip-ogl | package
i | tulip | Visualization of huge graphs | package
But when I start tulip (from the command line), The slash screen appears correctly (and all modules seem to be loaded correctly). But just a few miliseconds after the main window begins to appear I get a “segment violation” error (and the main window closes).
My system is OpenSuse 11.1, and the version of Tulip I installed is
All the latter packages are from the opensuse-oss repository.
I’ve tried to install the RPM packages from the Tulip webpage (Tulip Software home page) but I have not managed to succeed (zypper asks me for the qt 4.2 version).
The “segment violation” appears with the 3d acceleration enabled and disabled (it seems that Tulip makes use of 3d graphics). Currently installed versions of the nvidia packages (from the nvidia repository) are: