| IDL on Mac OS X 10.7 (Lion) [message #77035] |
Mon, 25 July 2011 11:09  |
Kenneth P. Bowman
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Has anyone tried installing and running IDL on a Mac running
OS X 10.7 (Lion)? Any major problems?
I need to buy a new computer, and I am sure it will come with
10.7 (and may not be capable of running 10.6).
Thanks, Ken Bowman
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| Re: IDL on Mac OS X 10.7 (Lion) [message #77230 is a reply to message #77035] |
Mon, 15 August 2011 13:09  |
Michael Galloy
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On 8/15/11 1:34 PM, Kenneth P. Bowman wrote:
> In article<k-bowman-9C559D.13092725072011@news.tamu.edu>,
> "Kenneth P. Bowman"<k-bowman@null.edu> wrote:
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>> Has anyone tried installing and running IDL on a Mac running
>> OS X 10.7 (Lion)? Any major problems?
>>
>> I need to buy a new computer, and I am sure it will come with
>> 10.7 (and may not be capable of running 10.6).
>>
>> Thanks, Ken Bowman
>
> So I bought a new iMac. It came with Lion installed. I did the basic
> software updates and installs, then attempted to install IDL 8.1.
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> The installer fails with an error message: "... Contact the software
> manufacturer for assistance." We have filed a bug report with ITTVIS.
> The logs suggest it might be a security or permission issue.
>
> For those of you who are successfully running IDL under Lion, are
> you running on a new machine, or did you already have IDL installed
> on a machine that you upgraded to Lion?
I installed Lion onto a system that already had IDL 8.1 on it.
I have had your problem for previous installs. I have been able to
manually install, i.e., copying the idl81 directory from an IDL 8.1
installation on a different Mac. I don't think 8.1 had a UNIX installer
for Mac OS X, but if it did, that might work. Not sure if this would
work in this case, but might be work a try.
Mike
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Michael Galloy
www.michaelgalloy.com
Modern IDL, A Guide to Learning IDL: http://modernidl.idldev.com
Research Mathematician
Tech-X Corporation
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| Re: IDL on Mac OS X 10.7 (Lion) [message #77231 is a reply to message #77035] |
Mon, 15 August 2011 12:34 |
Kenneth P. Bowman
Messages: 585
Registered: May 2000
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In article <k-bowman-9C559D.13092725072011@news.tamu.edu>,
"Kenneth P. Bowman" <k-bowman@null.edu> wrote:
> Has anyone tried installing and running IDL on a Mac running
> OS X 10.7 (Lion)? Any major problems?
>
> I need to buy a new computer, and I am sure it will come with
> 10.7 (and may not be capable of running 10.6).
>
> Thanks, Ken Bowman
So I bought a new iMac. It came with Lion installed. I did the basic
software updates and installs, then attempted to install IDL 8.1.
The installer fails with an error message: "... Contact the software
manufacturer for assistance." We have filed a bug report with ITTVIS.
The logs suggest it might be a security or permission issue.
For those of you who are successfully running IDL under Lion, are
you running on a new machine, or did you already have IDL installed
on a machine that you upgraded to Lion?
Ken
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