Re: Install trouble on FC5

[Tom Wainwright <thomas.wainwright@noaa.gov>]

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Dear Don,

Thank you!  That works perfectly, at least on SuSE 10.2/Sun Java 1.5.0.

--Tom Wainwright

Donald Denbo wrote:
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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.
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> Installer can be found at ftp://ftp.epic.noaa.gov/java/ncBrowse/install.htm
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> Don Denbo
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> 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".
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>> 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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Tom Wainwright
NOAA Northwest Fisheries Science Center
Newport, Oregon
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