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Re: IDL and RedHat version 7.0 [message #22833 is a reply to message #22825]

Thu, 07 December 2000 08:02

Nigel Wade
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Registered: March 1998

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David V Bowen wrote:
>
> About a month ago someone contacted me about their problems getting IDL
> to run under Linux & RedHat v7.0 (I'm sorry, I lost their Email and
> can't remember their name). Hopefully by now they've figured out how to
> fix it, but in case they haven't... I was talking to a colleague a few
> days ago, who reported a similar problem after a clean installation of
> RH7. The problem, he discovered, was that there are some libraries
> missing which IDL needs but which don't come with RH7. Anyone who
> upgrades to v7 won't notice any problems 'cause the libraries _used_ to
> exist in v6, but anyone doing a new installation will be unable to start
> IDL. If anyone is still struggling with these issues, I can get some
> more details if they contact me directly.
>
> Dave Bowen
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------ --------
> Department of Astrophysical Sciences,
> Peyton Hall, Princeton University, NJ 08544-1001
> Ph (609) 258 3822, FAX (609) 258 1020

libXpm wasn't it?

I don't trust their use of a development snapshot of gcc rather
than a stable release. I'm waiting until 7.1 comes out before upgrading.
Which also follows the usual rule of skipping .0 releases.

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		Re: IDL and RedHat version 7.0 By: Paul Woodford on Thu, 07 December 2000 10:24
		Re: IDL and RedHat version 7.0 By: Nick Bower on Thu, 07 December 2000 09:49
		Re: IDL and RedHat version 7.0 By: Richard French on Thu, 07 December 2000 09:16
		Re: IDL and RedHat version 7.0 By: Vapuser on Thu, 07 December 2000 08:00
		Re: IDL and RedHat version 7.0 By: Nigel Wade on Thu, 07 December 2000 08:02
		Re: IDL and RedHat version 7.0 By: Nigel Wade on Thu, 07 December 2000 07:30
		Re: IDL and RedHat version 7.0 By: Paul van Delst on Thu, 07 December 2000 00:00
		Re: IDL and RedHat version 7.0 By: Mark Hadfield on Wed, 06 December 2000 13:36
		Re: IDL and RedHat version 7.0 By: Kenneth Mankoff on Wed, 06 December 2000 00:00

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