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[Joachim Reichel <>]

Hi Hanjun,

> I first tried Debian packages and but it didn't work well.

Unfortunately, you don't say why it doesn't work. There are no known problems
building the examples/demos in the (3.3) Debian package, so it should just 
work.

> So, I
> downloaded the CGAL-3.3.tar.gz. (not 3.4 accidentally) and built in the
> interactive mode.
> 
> In the CGAL-3.3/lib folder, I have
> README  i686_Linux-2.6_g++-4.1.2, where the second one is a directory.

You never mentioned so far that you use CGAL 3.3, which is more than 18 months
old now. Since you said "accidentally", you seem to have no particular reason 
to
use 3.3, right? I strongly recommend to use 3.4 then, and not to waste time on
problems with an old version.

Again, there are Debian packages for 3.4 as well and I'm not aware of any
problems building the examples/demos (read
/usr/share/doc/libcgal-demo/README.Debian).

Joachim