How to use a Spacenavigator with Ubuntu

Getting started

Download the opensource library, daemon, java-stuff, (Config-GUI):

• Daemon
• Lib
• Config-GUI
• Java bindings for SpaceNavigator

Check if the following packages are installed:

• build-essential
• libx11-dev
• mesa-common-dev
• libgl1-mesa-dev
• libglu1-mesa-dev
• (libgtk2.0-dev just needed if you've also installed the Config-GUI)

Install SpaceNavigator

Install Daemon:

 
cd PATH_TO_SPACENAV_DEAMON/
./configure
make
sudo make install
# start the deamon
sudo /etc/init.d/spacenavd start
spacenavd

Install Library:

 
cd PATH_TO_LIBSPACENAV/
./configure
make
sudo make install

Testing Libs:

 
#compiling the test-stuff
cd PATH_TO_LIBSPACENAV/examples/cube/
make
./cube
cd PATH_TO_LIBSPACENAV/examples/simple
make
./simple_x11

(Install Config-Gui:)

 
cd PATH_TO_CONFIG_GUI/
./configure
make
sudo make install

Install Java-stuff:

 
cd PATH_TO_JAVA_STUFF/
#Adapt JAVA_HOME
gedit Makefile &
make
cd PATH_TO_JAVA_STUFF/examples
make run

At this point I get the following error:

java: symbol lookup error: /home/heydt/libspnav_java-0.1/libSpaceNav.so: undefined symbol: spnav_open

Has anyone an idea?

to be continued...