Problems trying to install IDL 6.3

[avecchiato]

Hi, I'm encountering difficulties trying to install IDL 6.3 on Kubuntu edgy.

IDL is a commercial visualization software somewhat popular in the scientific community.

The CD comes with a script which launches a graphical installer. The script requires root privileges.
Either if I run the script (with '/bin/sh xinstall.sh') "sudo-ing" it from a shell or directly from a root shell the scripts fails complaining that the DISPLAY variable is not set (for root, obviously).

Then I set and exported the DISPLAY with
export DISPLAY=":0.0"
and tried again, but xinstall.sh exits again, this time with the following error:
exec: 302: ./xinstall.linux.x86: Permission denied

In another distribution (SUSe 10.1) I succeded in launching the script. It is sufficient to su from any shell and run it.

Any help would be greatly appreciated: I cannot do without this program because of constraints I have at work.

Alberto Vecchiato

PS: I also tried another way, that is giving the command
kdesu /media/cdrom1/xinstall.sh
but this fails too. First the following is printed on the terminal window:
X Error: BadDevice, invalid or uninitialized input device 168
Major opcode: 145
Minor opcode: 3
Resource id: 0x0
Failed to open device
X Error: BadDevice, invalid or uninitialized input device 168
Major opcode: 145
Minor opcode: 3
Resource id: 0x0
then a dialog window opens asking for a password, and finally, after the password insertion, the shell prints these on the terminal window and exits.
Failed to open device
sh:
/media/cdrom1/xinstall.sh: Permission denied

[mchuskie]

Re: Problems trying to install IDL 6.3

X Error: BadDevice, invalid or uninitialized input device 168
Major opcode: 145
Minor opcode: 3
Resource id: 0x0
Failed to open device
X Error: BadDevice, invalid or uninitialized input device 168
Major opcode: 145
Minor opcode: 3
Resource id: 0x0

Those errors are minor and caused by your xorg.conf file having entries for Wacom tablets, which you don't have. It's not a major thing but if you really want to sort it then #comment out those sections in /etc/X11/xorg.conf.

As for your other problem: use 'kdesu' rather than 'sudo'. Sudo doesn't work well with GUI apps, kdesu is designed to. So use 'kdesu ./xinstall.sh'.

[avecchiato]

Re: Problems trying to install IDL 6.3

Thank you, but kdseu fails as well.
It returns the following message:
Failed to open device
sh:
/media/cdrom1/xinstall.sh: Permission denied

Alberto

[mchuskie]

Re: Problems trying to install IDL 6.3

Hmm... try first making sure the file is executable (by doing 'chmod a+x /path/to/file') and, if that doesn't work, copying the installer file to (say) your home directory and running it from there.