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Re: IDL on Linux Server [message #24115 is a reply to message #24025]

Thu, 08 March 2001 06:43

James Tappin
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Registered: December 1995

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Nigel Wade wrote:

>
>> I have now tried to start idl (before licensening it). First I got two
>> error messages of two libraries missing (libXpm.so.4 and libc-so.5). I
>> just found this libs on my machine and copied it to the
>> /<IDL-DIR>/bin/bin-linux-x86 directory.
>> Now I get a segmentation fault, which is even the worst becaue it tells
>> you nothing.
>
>> Has anybody tried the same or a similar installation? Can anybody give
>> me a hint?
>> Please help me, we need to run IDL on these machines!!!
>>
> I would be very surprised if 5.4 required libc5. Are you certain it said
> that libc.so.5 was required? IDL 5.3 uses libc6.
>

On a SuSE 7.0 box (which has very similar versions of most things to RH
6.2), IDL 5.4 installed and ran in demo mode, but the licence server needed
libc5 (available for SuSE as a compatibility package so I guess RH does so
as well).

James

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		IDL on Linux Server By: Gunter Laky on Wed, 07 March 2001 02:59
		Re: IDL on Linux Server By: John-David T. Smith on Fri, 09 March 2001 06:49
		Re: IDL on Linux Server By: Nigel Wade on Mon, 12 March 2001 02:58
		Re: IDL on Linux Server By: pit on Fri, 09 March 2001 06:24
		Re: IDL on Linux Server By: Nigel Wade on Fri, 09 March 2001 02:28
		Re: IDL on Linux Server By: James Tappin on Thu, 08 March 2001 06:43
		Re: IDL on Linux Server By: Nigel Wade on Wed, 07 March 2001 08:06
		Re: IDL on Linux Server By: Gunter Laky on Wed, 07 March 2001 04:09
		Re: IDL on Linux Server By: pit on Wed, 07 March 2001 03:17

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