INTERNAL: (ARCHVIE)Troubleshooting ENVI+IDL Installations on Mandrake Linux
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Topic:
While Mandrake linux is not an officially supported Linux distribution for IDL 6.2/ENVI 4.2 and earlier, it may still be possible to successfully install and run ENVI and IDL on this platform.
Discussion:
A- Installation:
1 - Install the ENVI/IDL product from the UNIX CD-ROM using the script called xinstall.sh.
2 - Follow the general instructions of the installation wizard and then select Install.
3 - After installing the software, the installation wizard allows you to enter the licensing information. You can find the standard instructions for licensing using the following link: http://www.exelisvis.com/license/index.asp.
B- Possible Troubleshooting:
1) Error message after selecting the Install button:
“ Script Not Found”
“The script usr/…/bin/post_unpack was not found.”
“The may be errors setting up the product environment”
“[OK]”
(With “post_unpack” an example of different files than can be associated to this error message.)
This error message means that the installation wizard tries to use the “/bin/csh” file to process. The problem is that the csh shell is not available by default on the Mandrake linux platform (for example, on version 10.2).
2 solutions:
a. Create a symbolic link: ln -s /bin/sh /bin/csh
b. Install a csh shell: this package is available with the CD-ROMs of your Mandrakelinux distribution. Then use the command: urpmi csh
2) The CD-ROM is mounted using the noexec option by default on Mandrake linux. This prevents to execute the scripts from the CD-ROMs. To solve this problem you can use the command:
mount -o ro,exec /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom
3) Error messages which looks like this : “tar : Read 6656 bytes from –“
These messages mean that there are some problems to uncompress the tar files. This is only because your Linux version does not use the same version to compress the tar files. In all cases, and even if you see these messages, the tar files should be uncompressed successfully and the software should run.
C- How to test the software: start the demo programs which are available with IDL by using the demo command at the IDL prompt.