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Re: Installing IDL 6.1 on debian linux [message #44967 is a reply to message #44883]

Thu, 28 July 2005 08:54

Nigel Wade
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Registered: March 1998

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Mathieu Malaterre wrote:

> Nigel Wade wrote:
>> Mathieu Malaterre wrote:
>> ater.
>>
>>> Well I tried again multiple times cannot get passed this damned license
>>> thing. I switched to a win32 box and after a few tries I got it
working...
>>>
>>> Mathieu
>>
>>
>> Did you bother to read the "Installing and Licensing IDL" manual, which
>> tells you exactly how to do this?
>>
>
> I spent 2 days working on that. This is completely pure waste on time.
>
> 1. Even executing xinstall.sh does not work unless you copy the cdrom
> tree to another directory

Others have dealt with this.

>
> 2. Installation lets you install anywhere you want for idl, but the
> license has a hardcoded /usr/local (even if you can manually change this
> path, this does not look safe or intuitive)

Possibly covered in the section "Modifying the License File". What problem
did you encounter which this section didn't cover?

>
> 3. The license manager thing is installed in a redhat manner which is
> completely different from debian, and there is not a chance this will
> work out of the box, so *yes* I have to start lmgrd manually.

How about the section "Starting the License Manager" and the sub-section
"Linux" where it tells you how to start the license manager and how to
configure it to start at boot time? Did you try this, and in what way did
it fail?

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		Installing IDL 6.1 on debian linux By: Mathieu Malaterre on Mon, 25 July 2005 13:25
		Re: Installing IDL 6.1 on debian linux By: Nigel Wade on Thu, 28 July 2005 08:54
		Re: Installing IDL 6.1 on debian linux By: Foldy Lajos on Thu, 28 July 2005 08:00
		Re: Installing IDL 6.1 on debian linux By: Michael Wallace on Thu, 28 July 2005 07:56
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