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20040923: Fatal error starting IDV-1.1

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  • Subject: 20040923: Fatal error starting IDV-1.1
  • Date: Fri, 24 Sep 2004 07:32:38 -0600
>From: "John R. Jackson" <address@hidden>
>Organization: Purdue University
>Keywords: 200409232216.i8NMGfnJ023180 IDV installation problems

Hi John-

>>...  Was the symlink installed
>>in /usr/local/bin or did you tell it to install it there during
>>the installation?
>
>I told it to create the link during the install.

Okay, thanks for the feedback.  We'll look into this for future 
releases.

>>This looks like it can't find the OpenGL library.  Is OpenGL installed
>>on this system?  ...
>
>Oh.  Is that important?  :-)

Only a tad. ;-)

>These machines were never meant to do graphics stuff, just be LDM servers,
>so I omitted things that "obviously" (silly me) would not be needed.
>Now, of course, my users now want to use IDV.  Sigh.

Ah, the life of an SA. 

>I installed OpenGL and IDV now at least comes up.  I don't know anything
>about it so can't do much else, but I'll pass it off to the users for
>further testing.  I suspect we're OK, now.

Let us know if there are any other difficulties.

Don Murray
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