Has anyone successfully installed LAbView 8 under Fedora Core 5 (FC5) ?

[Scott Stewart]

I've been having difficulty installing LV 8 under FC5. Previously I have had great success with LV 7.1 under FC4. The error messages are very generic and are mostly of the "unable to find file" variety. Looking for any comments from the zone...

[Scott Stewart]

Never mind.....

Looks like all my problems were X11R6 related. We didn't have X11R6 lib....

We're up and running now.... A thing of great beauty this 8.0....

[Chris_Cilino]

Scott,

I hate to be the bearer of bad news but LabVIEW not officially supported in FC. I tell you this because I don't want you to spend hours and hours on development only to find out at the 11th hour that stuff may not work. For a listing of supported distributions see this article. We also have a page dedicated to Linux found here. Let us know if you have futher questions.... and I agree with you... this LabVIEW 8 is a thing of beauty!

Chris C

Applications Engineering

National Instruments

[tetonedge]

Scott-

How is it working. I currently have FC5 and was wondering if you have run into any roadblocks, thanks

dt

[Scott Stewart]

dt- no problems yet. All our legacy code is running, and we haven't found any bugs with new code under development yet. We had some speed bumps getting LV 8.0 installed, but since then no problems....

Scott Stewart

[tetonedge]

Thats good to hear, I was wondering though what were your bumps. I have just got installed, but I can not start it due to it can not find LibOSMesa.so.4 . Did you have that one or have any ideas? Thanks

dt

[Scott Stewart]

dt-

In my experience with LINUX I've found that it takes a modicum of grit and determination to overcome the lack of standardization. I've found that all installs are not equal, and most times it is necessary to go out in search of missing components. I've also found that when you are installing, it is best to choose ALL components when asked; inevitably the one component you do not choose has a library that is needed by some seemingly unrelated program.

Our major problem was a missing X11R6 library that we had to search for and install. One other problem we had was with optimized directory indexing - we had to shut it off to keep LabView happy.

Once it all starts working, however, we can really see how amazingly powerful standard PC's have become when they are freed from the bondage of overbearing operating systems... The performance simply screams....

Scott.

[tetonedge]

Yeah I realized that as that has been my expierence with linux as well. I am just curius what X11 library you installed and where you got it. I am struggling with the fact that 5 is now using modular X11 and they restructed the directory completely. And that is really the problem that is occuring here. If you could help me with that it would be great.

[Shawn B.]

Derek,

To fix the libOSMesa.so.4 problem try running the following as root:

cd /usr/local/natinst/LabVIEW-8.0/linux
ln -s libLVMesaGL.so.3 libOSMesa.so.4

Shawn B.
National Instruments


[tetonedge]

that worked, thanks

dt