Problems installing GiD on Linux |
Ubuntu |
If GiD install/.tgz does not run on latest ubuntu 8.04 perhaps you are not able to execute the installation program of GiD nor the kernel-2.6 packed (.tar.gz) version on the latest ubuntu distribution.
Check if the distribution you are using is a 64-bit one with
uname -a:
..... x86_64 ...
If you have used the Wubi installation program, by default it installs the 64-bit distribution on a machine which is able to run 64-bit applications, which are all the machines by now.
It seems that the default 64-bit installation of ubuntu (and kubuntu, xubuntu) does not include the 32-bit support to execute 32-bit applications.
The installation programs of GiD are 32-bit applications, including the 64-bit version.
As explained here: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=583454 just by doing:
apt-get install ia32-libs lsb-core
(or through the synaptic package manager)
You will be able to run the 32-bit installers of GiD and the 32-bit version of GiD on the 64-bit ubuntu.
MEPIS |
The dynamic version of GiD failed on MEPIS kernel 2.6.15 because some libc symbols could not be resolved.
This problem could be avoided updating the g++ package to the 4.2 version:
sudo apt-get install g++-4.2