| I just installed IDL 7.0.6, and I would like to run the help browser as well as idlde. I'm running CentOS5 on an x86_64. 
The specific error at loading idlde is:
A Java Runtime Environment (JRE) or Java Development Kit (JDK)
must be available in order to run Idlde.linux.x86. No Java virtual machine
was found after searching the following locations:
/usr/local/itt/idl/idlde/bin.linux.x86/jre/bin/java
From another thread there is something that has to be done with regard to 32-bit compatibility libraries, but I have no idea where to start or what to do with regard to that.
ldd gives:
$ ldd /usr/local/itt/idl706/idlde/bin.linux.x86/libidl_jdml.so 
        linux-gate.so.1 =>  (0xffffe000)
        libidl_dml.so => not found
        libidl.so.7.0 => not found
        libidl_ops.so.7.0 => not found
        libidl_ipcclient.so.7.0 => not found
        libXp.so.6 => /usr/lib/libXp.so.6 (0xf7da6000)
        libXinerama.so.1 => /usr/lib/libXinerama.so.1 (0xf7da3000)
        libXpm.so.4 => /usr/lib/libXpm.so.4 (0xf7d92000)
        libXmu.so.6 => /usr/lib/libXmu.so.6 (0xf7d7b000)
        libXext.so.6 => /usr/lib/libXext.so.6 (0xf7d6b000)
        libXt.so.6 => /usr/lib/libXt.so.6 (0xf7d12000)
        libSM.so.6 => /usr/lib/libSM.so.6 (0xf7d09000)
        libICE.so.6 => /usr/lib/libICE.so.6 (0xf7cef000)
        libX11.so.6 => /usr/lib/libX11.so.6 (0xf7bec000)
        librt.so.1 => /lib/librt.so.1 (0xf7be3000)
        libpthread.so.0 => /lib/libpthread.so.0 (0xf7bcc000)
        libgcc_s.so.1 => /lib/libgcc_s.so.1 (0xf7bbf000)
        libdl.so.2 => /lib/libdl.so.2 (0xf7bbb000)
        libm.so.6 => /lib/libm.so.6 (0xf7b94000)
        libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0xf7a51000)
        libstdc++.so.6 => /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6 (0xf7966000)
        libXau.so.6 => /usr/lib/libXau.so.6 (0xf7963000)
        libXdmcp.so.6 => /usr/lib/libXdmcp.so.6 (0xf795c000)
        /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x00a87000)
How does one fix the 'not found' files? Should they be fixed? I'm much better at using IDL than debugging its setup, so is there a simple answer? |