Re: [ferret_users] Fedora Core 7

[Ansley Manke <ansley.b.manke@xxxxxxxx>]

Hii all,
Roland, thanks for helping everyone on this issue. With the next release 
of Ferret I'll build it with more of the static libraries. It looks as 
if I have several of the X libraries available in static forms which 
will cut down on a lot of this.

Ansley

Roland Schweitzer wrote:
> Steve,
>
> guimond@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > Hi Roland,
> >  Here is the error message/library I am missing:
> >
> > ferret: error while loading shared libraries: libXp.so.6: cannot open 
> > shared object file: No such file or directory
> >
> > Steve
>
> Well, this seems to be a bit tricky since the library is officially 
> deprecated, but it appears there is a package you can get which will 
> satisfy this reference.
>
> [roland@ip-208-109-127-60 ~]$ yum whatprovides libXp.so.6
> Searching Packages:
> Setting up repositories
> Reading repository metadata in from local files
>
>
> xorg-x11-deprecated-libs.i386            6.8.2-1.EL.18          
> base           Matched from:
> libXp.so.6
>
>
> You can try the "yum whatprovides" to see if it's installed on  your 
> system.  If it is you might just need to add it to your LD_LIBRARY_PATH.
>
> If not, try installing it:
>
> yum install xorg-x11-deprecated-libs.i386   
> Roland
> > Quoting Roland Schweitzer <Roland.Schweitzer@xxxxxxxx>:
> >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > Stephen R. Guimond wrote:
> > > > Hello,
> > > >  I just had Fedora Core 7 installed on my computer and tried 
> > > > installing Ferret 32-bit Linux but got a shared library error.
> > > Which shared library or libraries are missing?  If it happens to be 
> > > libstdc++.so.5 then you can install the compat-libstdc++33 package.
> > >
> > > There's a note about it here: 
> > > http://www.pmel.noaa.gov/maillists/tmap/ferret_users/fu_2007/msg00447.html 
> > >
> > >
> > > If there are other libraries missing send the details to the list 
> > > and we can help you track down the packages you need to install.
> > >
> > > >   I tried installing the static version of Ferret and got this 
> > > > message:
> > > >
> > > > /usr/local/ferret/bin/ferret: Exec format error. Wrong Architecture.
> > > >
> > > > Any suggestions?
> > > The static build that's available is for 64-bit machines.  I'm 
> > > pretty sure we can get you going with the shared library build.  :-)
> > >
> > > Roland
> > > > Steve
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > =======================================================
> > > > Stephen R. Guimond
> > > > Graduate Research Assistant
> > > > Center for Ocean-Atmospheric Prediction Studies (COAPS)
> > > > Tallahassee, FL 32304
> > > > =======================================================
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