Re: IDL on Linux Server

[Gunter Laky <Gunter.Laky(at)oeaw.ac.at>]

Dear Peter,

I have checked it, as you told me. IDL 5.4 needs libc6, but libXpm.so.4 needs
both libc5 and lib6c, at least this is what "ldd libXpm.so.4" tells me. I'm
very new to Linux (however, I have worked with other Unix systems), so I'm not
sure about this library stuff.

Funny enough, after checking I now get a different error message. It's
"Floating point exception". Really mysteriously.



Gunter

Peter Suetterlin wrote:

>   Hi Gunter,
>
> Gunter Laky <Gunter.Laky@oeaw.ac.at> writes:
> > Dear all,
> >
> > I have just installed IDL 5.4 to a Linux Server (Red Hat 6.2 (Zoot),
> > Kernel 2.2.14-5, XFree86-VGA16). Installation went through without any
> > errors or warnings.
> >
> > I have now tried to start idl (before licensening it). First I got two
> > error messages of two libraries missing (libXpm.so.4 and libc-so.5). I
> > just found this libs on my machine and copied it to the
> > /<IDL-DIR>/bin/bin-linux-x86 directory.
> > Now I get a segmentation fault, which is even the worst becaue it tells
> > you nothing.
>
> Hu, does IDL 5.4 require libc5?  I only have 5.2 installed, but that
> is already libc6. (Try ldd IDL_DIR/bin/bin.linux/idl to see which
> libraries are required)
>
> RedHat 6.2 is libc6-based, so the libXpm.so.4 is most probably for
> that version - maybe there is the problem.  You can also use ldd
> libXpm.so.4 to see which version it is.
>
>   Peter
>
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