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Fri, 24 March 2006 19:58 |
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Registered: May 2005
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I am starting to appriciate my Windows machine at work. I get an IDL
CD, pop it into the drive, run the installation, point it to the
license file, and I'm done.
Meanwhile, back at the ranch, I downloaded the IDL distro, unpacked it
and ./install-ed it (never mind that I could not do it by su -c
./install, because an "echo ..." statement in yesno script was causing
trouble, so I had to login as root).
Then my license file failed to impress the license manager (my platform
is i86_re, and my license was for i86_r). However (and THANK YOU RSI),
the license file in my account was updated to include i86_re, so I
downloaded that, and IDL runs.
But now, if I try to run an iTool, IDL complains about a missing
"libstdc++.so.5" file. It turns out that I have "libstdc++.so.6" file.
Assuming (foolishly?) backward compatibility tried to trick IDL, I
created a soft link from .6 to .5.
No luck, since now I get a message GLIBCPP_3.2 is not found (recquired
by idl_xml.so).
If RSI were to drop linux/unix support, I may have an inkling why.
BTW, does anyone have any ideas how to proceed? My Unix programming
skills are close to zero (thanks to tools such as IDL).
Cheers,
Mirko
PS. Oh, and why am I installing IDL on Linux? Well, as the person
that makes the big bucks in our family, I get the crappy computer. My
wife has a dual-core Dell, daughters a 2.4GHz gateway, and I was handed
down an old (I am not going to admit to the processor speed) PC running
W98 (Second Edition), not supported anymore by RSI.
For my stuff, I really don't need super-fancy stuff. Heck, I did my
PhD on a 200MHz Alpha 11 years ago, and it was mostly IDL.
And now, if you excuse me, I'll go of into the sunset of irrelevance
and go practice my guitar:-)
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