Solution to install "graph_tool" on Ubuntu 16.04

[ygjia]

As mentioned before #2, installing "graph_tool" may be very troublesome.

Here is my solution to install "graph_tool" on my ubuntu 16.04, hoping can be helpful to those still using ubuntu 16.04 as the server.

We could go to the Official Installation Guidance for debian&ubuntu, but only ubuntu 18.04(bionic), ubuntu 18.10(cosmic) and ubuntu 19.04(disco) are listed blow the instructions.

I tried to open the source url https://downloads.skewed.de/apt/ in my browser, and found there was still a folder "xenial" which is for ubuntu 16.04.

So, I just replace the DISTRIBUTION with xenial in the following lines, and added them to /etc/apt/sources.list.

deb http://downloads.skewed.de/apt/DISTRIBUTION DISTRIBUTION universe
deb-src http://downloads.skewed.de/apt/DISTRIBUTION DISTRIBUTION universe

Then follow the official guidance, I finally installed it successfully.

Note: The code may encounter a “Error”when import cairo, so the graph drawing will not work. But it can work normally if we don't use it for visualization.

[BangLiu]

@ygjia Well done! Thanks!

[shanekong]

As mentioned before #2, installing "graph_tool" may be very troublesome.

Here is my solution to install "graph_tool" on my ubuntu 16.04, hoping can be helpful to those still using ubuntu 16.04 as the server.

We could go to the Official Installation Guidance for debian&ubuntu, but only ubuntu 18.04(bionic), ubuntu 18.10(cosmic) and ubuntu 19.04(disco) are listed blow the instructions.

I tried to open the source url https://downloads.skewed.de/apt/ in my browser, and found there was still a folder "xenial" which is for ubuntu 16.04.

So, I just replace the DISTRIBUTION with xenial in the following lines, and added them to /etc/apt/sources.list.

deb http://downloads.skewed.de/apt/DISTRIBUTION DISTRIBUTION universe
deb-src http://downloads.skewed.de/apt/DISTRIBUTION DISTRIBUTION universe

Then follow the official guidance, I finally installed it successfully.

Note: The code may encounter a “Error”when import cairo, so the graph drawing will not work. But it can work normally if we don't use it for visualization.

it seems donot work now.