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IDL installation tip for Linux [message #68952]

Sun, 06 December 2009 19:28

penteado
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Again, I try to install IDL in a clean system (in this case Fedora
12), and again I wonder when IDL will have a decent Linux installer
(preferably using some packaging system), or at least give error
messages telling why it is not working.

In this particular instance, the symptom was that calling idlde
results in nothing at first sight: no error messages, no log files, no
dialogs, no asking for the workspace, just a brief pause before
returning to the command line. On further inspection, it only creates
a skeleton IDLWorkspace71 directory (without ever asking for the
worskpace to use).

What fixes it for me, which may come useful to some of you, is Adobe
Reader. Many times I found that installing the Reader with a package
manager (Adobe has a Fedora repository) gets as dependencies a bunch
of X libraries, apparently several of which are also used by IDL.

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		IDL installation tip for Linux By: penteado on Sun, 06 December 2009 19:28
		Re: IDL installation tip for Linux By: penteado on Tue, 15 December 2009 16:36
		Re: IDL installation tip for Linux By: Robbie on Tue, 12 January 2010 19:05
		Re: IDL installation tip for Linux By: Robbie on Tue, 15 December 2009 14:36
		Re: IDL installation tip for Linux By: Michael Galloy on Thu, 14 January 2010 15:49
		Re: IDL installation tip for Linux By: penteado on Wed, 13 January 2010 16:22
		Re: IDL installation tip for Linux By: Robbie on Wed, 13 January 2010 15:37
		Re: IDL installation tip for Linux By: penteado on Tue, 12 January 2010 19:30
		Re: IDL installation tip for Linux By: BLemire@ittvis.com on Fri, 22 January 2010 14:32
		Re: IDL installation tip for Linux By: penteado on Thu, 21 January 2010 16:04
		Re: IDL installation tip for Linux By: penteado on Thu, 21 January 2010 11:56
		Re: IDL installation tip for Linux By: BLemire@ittvis.com on Thu, 21 January 2010 10:03

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