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Re: Installing IDL 6.1 on debian linux [message #44970 is a reply to message #44883]

Thu, 28 July 2005 07:56

Michael Wallace
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Registered: December 2003

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> I spent 2 days working on that. This is completely pure waste on time.

You are aware that Debian is NOT an officially supported platform?
Remember that when you try to branch out to something unsupported there
will be most likely be little gotchas and maybe big problems along the
way. And also remember that most of us use one of the supported
platforms, so the help we can give is limited.

> 1. Even executing xinstall.sh does not work unless you copy the cdrom
> tree to another directory

This is a Debian issue. I believe that you simply don't have the
correct permissions on the directory where the CD is mounted.

> 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)

What specifically are you referring to? The DAEMON line of the license
file? If so, the path on that line is simply the full path to the IDL
binary directory. You can freely change that path to wherever that
directory is.

> 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.

There is a script that comes with IDL that will start up the license
manager. You will need to manually add the script to your boot up
programs (the Debian equivalent of Redhat's init.d directories).
Finally, you will need to edit the script if IDL is not installed under
/usr/local as you seem to imply.

-Mike

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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
		Re: Installing IDL 6.1 on debian linux By: Mathieu Malaterre on Thu, 28 July 2005 07:16

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