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[AWIPS #RAB-671867]: AWIPS II Installation in RHL

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  • Subject: [AWIPS #RAB-671867]: AWIPS II Installation in RHL
  • Date: Mon, 25 Nov 2019 13:58:50 -0700
Hi Wyatt,

At this point, there could be a number of things that CAVE is unhappy with and 
that's 
why you're seeing that particular error.
Unfortunately, at this time CAVE is only supported for REL 6 and 7.  We have 
not yet 
had the chance to test and run CAVE on REL 8, and so at this time, we do not 
officially
support 8.  There aren't any easy solutions for you at this point, the best 
chance is 
to either have a machine that is still running Redhat 7, possibly run a Windows 
machine,
or Mac with compatible graphics cards, or *maybe* run a VM on your current 
machine of
CentOS/RedHat 7.  I say maybe with that last option because not all VM software 
programs
forward the response to the graphics cards properly, and therefore not all data 
will 
render on CAVE because of that.
As for your Mac graphics card question/request -- it is not exactly that CAVE 
doesn't
support other graphics cards.  It's that OpenGL, which is an underlying tool 
CAVE is 
written in, has the graphics cards limitations.  So, as far as us adding 
support for
more graphics cards, it's not really in our hands, if that makes sense.
I know that none of this is an actual solution for you, but it's the best I can 
provide
at this time.
Thank you.
--Shay Carter

Software Engineer II
UCAR - Unidata

Ticket Details
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Ticket ID: RAB-671867
Department: Support AWIPS
Priority: Normal
Status: Open
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