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Re: IDL installation tip for Linux [message #69532 is a reply to message #68952] Fri, 22 January 2010 14:32 Go to previous messageGo to previous message
BLemire@ittvis.com is currently offline  BLemire@ittvis.com
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On Jan 21, 5:04 pm, pp <pp.pente...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I just tested it. I installed F12 from the install DVD, and selected
> even less than the default packages. That is, in the package selection
> screen shown at
>
> http://docs.fedoraproject.org/install-guide/f12/en-US/html/s 1-pkgsele...
>
> I deselected the "Office and Productivity" group. I did no other
> changes to package selection during installation.
>
> Then, after installing IDL 7.1.1, to get idl and idlde working, I had
> to do:
>
> yum install libXp
> yum install libXpm
>
> These got idl working, but not idlde. Then:
>
> yum install AdobeReader_enu.i486
> yum install java-1.6.0-openjdk.i686
>
> After setting up adobe-linux-i386.repo, obviously. That got idlde to
> work. Then to get them to work also on 32 bit mode, I had to do:
>
> yum install libXpm.i686
> yum install libXmu.i686
> /sbin/restorecon '/opt/itt/idl71/bin/bin.linux.x86/libidl.so.7.1'
> chcon -t textrel_shlib_t '/opt/itt/idl71/bin/bin.linux.x86/libidl.so.
> 7.1'
>
> That got idl -32 to work. Then, for idlde -32 to work, it was
> necessary:
>
> chcon -t execmem_exec_t '/opt/itt/idl71/bin/bin.linux.x86/
> idl_opserver'
>
> The libXp, libXpm and libXmu libraries installed just a single package
> each. Adobe Reader and Java had a large number of dependencies. I
> saved into a file the names of all packages that got installed, and
> more details about the error messages at each point. Let me know if
> you want to see those.
>
> As I remember, when I did a similar install in another system,
> installing Skype from its repository had a similar effect as
> installing Adobe Reader.
>
> In addition to adding Tech Tips to the website, once you determine all
> libraries that are needed in addition to a default install of the main
> distributions, this information should be incorporated into the
> install script. That is, it should try to determine which is the
> current distribution. Then, it finds the distribution is one of those
> it knows, it should test for the presence of the known additional
> dependencies, and report the missing ones.
>
> In the case of F12, testing for the distribution can be done looking
> for the file /etc/system-release, which contains
>
> Fedorarelease12(Constantine)
>
> And I guess the same is present also on older versions ofFedora(I
> know it is in F11). Then, inFedorasystems, simple rpm query commands
> can be used to find out if the other libraries are installed.

Thank you for providing this information. If you would be willing to
email me the file that you saved I will make sure it gets into the
appropriate hands.

Best,

Brandon
BLemire@ittvis.com

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