| Re: IDL on Mac Funning Yosemite? [message #89719 is a reply to message #89455] |
Wed, 19 November 2014 20:20   |
SHENYUE JIA
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Registered: November 2014
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Yes. Heard about this JAVA v6 problem on Yosemite. And it brings trouble with QGIS as well. Hope Apple can fix it in the later versions.
On Saturday, October 18, 2014 5:11:38 AM UTC-7, nerdzoo wrote:
> On Friday, October 17, 2014 11:11:53 PM UTC-5, David Fanning wrote:
>> Folks,
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>> I got an e-mail today from someone who claims he can't get either IDL
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>> 7.1 or IDL 8.2 to run on the Yosemite version of OS X. Is there any
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>> truth to this? Is there a trick to installing IDL on this OS?
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> I can confirm that IDL 8.2 fails to run in Yosemite with the following error message:
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> nerdzoo:/usr/local/exelis/idl82/bin$ idl
> dyld: Library not loaded: /usr/X11/lib/libfreetype.6.dylib
> Referenced from: /usr/local/exelis/idl82/bin/bin.darwin.x86_64/libidl.8.2.dyl ib
> Reason: image not found
> Trace/BPT trap: 5
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> idlde also does not run, but prints out a longer report that can be sent to Apple.
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> IDL 8.3 and 8.4 are ok. With 8.4 on Yosemite, however, firing up idlde the first time complained about need to install "legacy Java SE 6 runtime." You're directed to Apple's download site. After installation, idlde works okay.
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> -Caesar
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>> This person claims the problem is with libPNG. Can anyone fill me in on
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>> what he is talking about. :-(
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>> Thanks,
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>> David
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>> --
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>> David Fanning, Ph.D.
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>> Fanning Software Consulting, Inc.
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>> Coyote's Guide to IDL Programming: http://www.idlcoyote.com/
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>> Sepore ma de ni thue. ("Perhaps thou speakest truth.")
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