| Re: IDL on openSUSE [message #65400 is a reply to message #65332] |
Mon, 02 March 2009 02:13  |
Nigel Wade
Messages: 286
Registered: March 1998
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cmancone@gmail.com wrote:
> On Feb 27, 3:48 am, Reimar Bauer <R.Ba...@fz-juelich.de> wrote:
>> Nigel Wade schrieb:
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>>> I'm currently in the process of setting up a new analysis computer which
>>> requires IDL. I had hoped to use CentOS (RedHat) 5.2, because that's what
I'm
>>> used to and I know IDL works.
>>
>>> However, the installation is proving troublesome because the CentOS/RedHat
>>> installer doesn't like the graphics card/monitor combination, so I have to
>>> install in text mode. This makes configuring the disks as LVM on RAID
rather,
>>> how shall I put it, bothersome.
>>
>>> I've tried an OpenSUSE installer and that doesn't appear to have any
problems
>>> with the graphics/monitor and provides a nice installation setup. But I
have no
>>> experience of using IDL on OpenSUSE. So, has anyone every tried using IDL
on
>>> OpenSUSE (specifically 64bit)? Does it work? Are there any gotchas I need
to be
>>> aware of?
>>
>> yeah I have and do play a bit with idl7.0.3.
>>
>> Most of us do use idl 6.4 and we decided to wait for 7.1. Some of us
>> believes that there was no major improvement since 6.2 for our work
>> based on idl. While we all the time payed lots of money. (Well we forced
>> them to upgrade netCDF)
>>
>> Don't talk about installing of idl. It is since years only copying.
>>
>> As a major improvement instead of extending libs for us I would also
>> accept that they provide deb and rpm packages which can be easily
>> installed and updated.
>>
>> If you follow other threads on this list you will see lot's of problems
>> which are based on incompatible libs. A package installer will tell
>> these problems beforehand. Or it will hold back updates until those
>> problems were fixed.
>>
>> cheers
>> Reimar
>
> Where I work the vast majority of the machines are running on
> openSuse. Also, just about everyone uses IDL (6.4), with no trouble.
> Of course I wasn't the one that installed IDL on all of these
> computers, so I can't tell you if there were any gotcha's there.
> Certainly though running it is trouble free, and has been for many
> years.
Ok, thanks everyone.
It looks like Gnome desktop is the way to go then. I didn't know there were
particular problems with KDE 4 (I use KDE 3.5 on RedHat on my desktop). In the
past I've generally found the KDE has been more reliable, but also more
annoying. I suppose it's progress to expect that KDE would catch up with Gnome
and Windows in its "feature" list...
I don't envision using the IDE (Ecplise). We are die-hard IDL command-line,
direct graphics, users here. iTools has never darkened our doorstep, and using
graphics objects is a mystical and highly suspect "dark art" - that part of the
manual still carries the "Here be Dragons" warning.
However, we do have a lot of external code and I need to decide whether to build
it 32bit or 64bit. That will probably depend which version of IDL I can get
working.
--
Nigel Wade
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