Re: Install trouble on FC5

[Øystein Godøy <o.godoy@met.no>]

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Dear Don,

It works nice on Fedora Core 5 and Java 1.5.0 as well.

Thanks!

Øystein

Fredag 13 juli 2007 16:51, skrev Tom Wainwright:
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> Dear Don,
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> 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.
> >
> > 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".
> >>
> >> 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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-- 
Dr. Oystein Godoy
Norwegian Meteorological Institute 
Research and Development Department, Section for Remote Sensing
P.O.BOX 43, Blindern, N-0313 OSLO, Norway
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