Re: Install trouble on FC5

[Donald Denbo <Donald.W.Denbo@noaa.gov>]

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I've repackaged ncBrowse using InstallAnywhere version 8 (the newest  
version).  Please try again and let me know if you have any problems  
installing on Linux.

Installer can be found at ftp://ftp.epic.noaa.gov/java/ncBrowse/ 
install.htm

Don Denbo


On Jul 11, 2007, at 5:06 PM, Tom Wainwright wrote:

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> This is a followup to the message from Øystein Godøy, 22 Nov 2006.   
> I see no
> reply to his problem in the list (see also message from Gabriella  
> Turek,01 Sep
> 2006).  I get the same problems with SuSE 10.2 on x64, with Java  
> version "1.5.0_10".
>
> Øystein reported a number of "cannot open shared object file: No  
> such file or
> directory" errors on standard libraries.  I spent some time  
> tracking through the
> install script (ncBrowse_1_6_3.bin) with the LAX_DEBUG flag set,  
> and traced the
> problems down to code associated with the   
> "linux_LD_ASSUME_KERNEL_hack".  After
> commenting out the line
> 	export LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.2.5
> in the section "checking for NPTL + JVM vulernability...", (and  
> commenting out
> the ZIP_SIZE checks) I got past these library errors.  However, the  
> install
> fails further on with:
> > Launching installer...
>   Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: com/ 
> zerog/lax/LAX
>
> It looks like LAX may be incompatible with recent Linux/Java versions.
>
> Question 1--Does anybody know a workaround for this with modern  
> Linux Kernels
> and recent java versions?
>
> Question 2--If not, are the jar files available for manual  
> installation, as they
> were for ncBrowse v1.4.0?  I can do the manual installation of that  
> version
> successfully, and it runs up to a point--I can browse a file and  
> see all the
> data definitions, but I get a class not found error when I try to  
> generate any
> graphs.
>
> Failing that, are there more recent software alternatives for  
> browsing and quick
> graphs of gridded data in netCDF format?
>
> Thanks in advance for any help!
>
> --
> Tom Wainwright
> NOAA Northwest Fisheries Science Center
> Newport, Oregon
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