Comment 4 for bug 696909

Thanks a lot for your reply and good luck for your efforts!
I found that the k3d in Windows has more plugins than in Ubuntu. Hope
someday Ubuntu also gets the same. :)

Cheers
Anand

On Fri, Jan 7, 2011 at 12:47 PM, Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo <
<email address hidden>> wrote:

> Hello Anand,
>
> No, that will not suffice: the program has to be rebuilt (and if you are
> new to Ubuntu, probably you don't know how, however there are guides
> around). The instructions were mostly directed at Ubuntu packagers,
> which might want to modify the Debian package that I create.
>
> However, there is a deeper problem: the CGAL libs that this module
> depends on, are in a separate repository ("multiverse", for non-free
> software, software which has licensing problems of some kind). I don't
> know if K-3D can stay in "universe" repository if it depends on software
> in "multiverse". In Debian, the names are different but the idea is
> similar, and in principle K-3D cannot be distributed with this module
> enabled without important consequences and modifications (it's more
> complicate than I thought in the 1st reply). I just contacted the
> (main) author of the K-3D software to know if we can do something about
> this.
>
> Note: I am the Debian maintainer for this package, and at the moment
> Ubuntu imports directly the package into Ubuntu repositories, so maybe
> I'm not completely right when interpreting some Ubuntu policies about
> this matter.
>
> Cheers.
>
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> Title:
> CGALBoolean plugin missing-for Boolean Operations
>
> Status in “k3d” package in Ubuntu:
> New
>
> Bug description:
> Binary package hint: k3d
>
> A very fundamental CAD operation namely the Boolean operations are perfomed
> by the CGALBoolean plugin.
> Unfortunately this is missing in k3d 0.8.0.2-2 of Ubuntu distro (Maverick),
> although in windows this plugin is included.
> Kindly add this and rebuild k3d. Thank you.
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