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IDL on SuSE v9.0? [message #36820] Mon, 03 November 2003 09:10 Go to next message
spambob is currently offline  spambob
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Registered: November 2003
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With the changes taking place at Red Hat, we're considering converting all our
Red Hat machines to SuSE. Will IDL for Linux install and run with SuSE?
I've been poking around the RSI web site but haven't run across a platform
matrix.
Re: IDL on SuSE v9.0? [message #36871 is a reply to message #36820] Thu, 06 November 2003 02:06 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Nigel Wade is currently offline  Nigel Wade
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Thomas Schulze wrote:
> I installed idlv6.0 last week together with Suse 9.0 and did not see
> any problems yet

It's a bit early for the Novell influence to have had any effect...


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Re: IDL on SuSE v9.0? [message #36872 is a reply to message #36820] Thu, 06 November 2003 01:57 Go to previous messageGo to next message
tschulze is currently offline  tschulze
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I installed idlv6.0 last week together with Suse 9.0 and did not see
any problems yet.
My fvwm2rc does not work correctly, but that's offtopic here.

Ciao Thomas
Re: IDL on SuSE v9.0? [message #36905 is a reply to message #36820] Tue, 04 November 2003 07:28 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Nigel Wade is currently offline  Nigel Wade
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spambob@pineapple.bikinibottom.net wrote:
> With the changes taking place at Red Hat, we're considering converting all our
> Red Hat machines to SuSE. Will IDL for Linux install and run with SuSE?
> I've been poking around the RSI web site but haven't run across a platform
> matrix.
>
>

I'd hang on a while yet...

http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/33770.html

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Re: IDL on SuSE [message #42364 is a reply to message #36820] Thu, 27 January 2005 18:22 Go to previous message
war is currently offline  war
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Registered: December 2003
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Michael Wallace wrote:
> The only supported Linux flavors according to RSI's documentation are
> Redhat versions. I can't think of any reason why IDL wouldn't work on
> SuSE, but was wondering if there would be any issues trying to get IDL
> installed and running on a SuSE box. Anyone running IDL under SuSE?
> Were there any hoops to jump through to make it work, or was it nice and
> smooth? The specific combination I'm interested in is IDL 6.1.1 and
> SuSE 9.1.
>
> TIA,
> Mike
I have installed IDL 6.1 on SUSE 9.0. It works fine except I had to
substitute the libcompat library for the idlhelp and the itool to work.

Andry
Re: IDL on SuSE [message #42381 is a reply to message #36820] Thu, 27 January 2005 01:53 Go to previous message
judy is currently offline  judy
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Registered: December 2004
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I am currently using
SuSE Linux Version 9.0

with kernel
Linux linux 2.4.21-144-default #1 Fri Nov 14 00:01:36 UTC 2003 i686
i686 i386 GNU/Linux

pefered editor is
emacs/idlwave

have not had any problems

I do have and idl_startup.pro in my .tcshrc, looks like
;- Generic platform independent IDL startup file
if !version.os_family eq 'unix' then device, true_color=24
window, /free, /pixmap, colors=-10
wdelete, !d.window
device, decomposed=0, retain=2, set_character_size=[10, 12]
device, get_visual_depth=depth
print, 'Display depth: ', depth
print, 'Color table size: ', !d.table_size
Re: IDL on SuSE [message #42389 is a reply to message #36820] Wed, 26 January 2005 06:28 Go to previous message
R.Bauer is currently offline  R.Bauer
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Michael Wallace wrote:
> The only supported Linux flavors according to RSI's documentation are
> Redhat versions. I can't think of any reason why IDL wouldn't work on
> SuSE, but was wondering if there would be any issues trying to get IDL
> installed and running on a SuSE box. Anyone running IDL under SuSE?
> Were there any hoops to jump through to make it work, or was it nice and
> smooth? The specific combination I'm interested in is IDL 6.1.1 and
> SuSE 9.1.
>
> TIA,
> Mike

It works on Debian and SuSE.

cheers
Reimar


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Re: IDL on SuSE [message #42391 is a reply to message #36820] Wed, 26 January 2005 00:26 Go to previous message
Bringfried Stecklum is currently offline  Bringfried Stecklum
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Registered: January 1996
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Michael Wallace wrote:
> The only supported Linux flavors according to RSI's documentation are
> Redhat versions. I can't think of any reason why IDL wouldn't work on
> SuSE, but was wondering if there would be any issues trying to get IDL
> installed and running on a SuSE box. Anyone running IDL under SuSE?
> Were there any hoops to jump through to make it work, or was it nice and
> smooth? The specific combination I'm interested in is IDL 6.1.1 and
> SuSE 9.1.
>
> TIA,
> Mike

Hi Mike,

I am using exactly the configuration you are interested in without any
problems. You have to set the kernel version to 2.4 otherwise it won't
work. Thus I inserted

export LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.4.1

as the very first line in sys5_idl_lmgrd. Furthermore, I enccountered
a slight problem with the cursor (reported earlier in this newsgroup)
which you can solve with

export XCURSOR_CORE=1

regards,

Bringfried
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