Michel Schuster wrote:
>
> So sorry for this 2nd mail, but the first one was mysteriously cut !!!
>
> The complete mail sounds like :
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> Hi again,
>
> I tryed to install Ptolemy on my PC operating with Linux RedHat 6.0 .
> I got the RPM packages for the RedHat 6.0, and installed the soft
> by using the gnorpm utility.
>
> The ptolemy-bin-0.7.1p1-10.i386.rpm package worked OK, but for the
> ptolemy-source-0.7.1p1-10.i386.rpm package, I got a segmentation fault.
>
> How can I correctly install Ptolemy on my system ???
>
> Regards,KNOWN_BUGSKNOWN_BUGS
>
> Michel Schuster
> Alcatel Business Machines
> E-mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi Michel:
As mentioned in
ftp://ftp.tu-ilmenau.de/pub/unix/ptolemy/ptolemy0.7.1.linux/KNOWN_BUGS,
rpm-3.0.x (which comes with RedHat-6.0) has a serious bug which can
prevent uninstalling (and thus also upgrading) of packages which have
many files of the same name (this is especially true for
ptolemy-source-0.7.1p1-10.i386.rpm). Did you downgrade to rpm-2.5.x
before trying to install Ptolemy?
In order to solve your problem I suggest:
1) Become root.
2) Because you may have corrupted your rpm index files when you
got the segmentation fault, rebuild the index data base of
rpm:
rpm --rebuilddb
3) Get rpm-2.5.6-6.0.i386.rpm and rpm-devel-2.5.6-6.0.i386.rpm
from
ftp://ftp.tu-ilmenau.de/pub/unix/ptolemy/ptolemy0.7.1.linux/
and downgrade to rpm-2.5.6:
rpm -Uvh --oldpackage rpm-2.5.6-6.0.i386.rpm \
rpm-devel-2.5.6-6.0.i386.rpm
rpm --rebuilddb
4) Remove all obsolete and/or incompletely installed Ptolemy
packages:
rpm -ev $(rpm -qa|grep ptolemy)
5) Install the Ptolemy packages you need, e.g.:
rpm -Uvh ptolemy-source-0.7.1p1-10.i386.rpm \
ptolemy-bin-0.7.1p1-10.i386.rpm \
ptolemy-usersman_html-0.7.1p1-10.i386.rpm
6) By logging in as a "normal" user (after Ptolemy installation
has been finished) all required variables will be set and
Ptolemy can be started either by clicking on the Ptolemy
menu entry or by executing "pigi" (the Ptolemy Interactive
Graphical Interface) in a xterm.
Regards,
Wolfgang.
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Wolfgang Reimer (Dr.-Ing.)
Technische Universität Ilmenau - Ilmenau University of Technology
Address: TU Ilmenau, FEI/IKM, PF 100565, 98684 Ilmenau, GERMANY
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