Re: [Glug-nith-discuss] Pro-E installation and support for GNU/Linux in future

[Manu G.V]

On 4/6/07, Debarshi 'Rishi' Ray <address@hidden> wrote:
> > Main Pro-E license server runs on RedHat machine (domain name:
> > matlab.ac.in)  and even Pro-E client runs on it
>
> Last time, the client was not working on the same machine on which the
> server was installed. Is it working now?

Its working now. This machine hosts 3 software(Pro-e, Fluent, Matlab)
license servers.

> > which gave me a hope to get it running on fedora.
>
> I would suggest you give CentOS a try. CentOS is a RHEL without the
> Red Hat support.

I have never tried this man. Someone can give a try for this.


> >     It took lot of time to figure out problems and packages required.
> > Recently I was able to install Pro-E which doesn't work still as there
> > are lot of problems still.
>
> What problems?
It didn't get installed in the directory(/usr/ptc) I specified. It
gave some errors saying it could not unzip some files. I couldn't go
through the problems in detail as time was 1720hrs so lab assistant
had to go.

> >  I want some people to take interest in this installation and support
> > stuff as there is very little time for me to teach a lot of stuff to
> > the lab assistant who knows very little about GNU/Linux.
>
> Is the lab assistant keen to shift to GNU/Linux on those machines to
> be used for CAD, or for the other machines used for Internet, word
> processing, etc. also?

For both.

> >     College has even got FLUENT(software for fluid analysis) for
> > GNU/Linux. I have even tried this and also installed but it never
> > worked.
>
> What was the problem?
Bin file never worked. I really didn't understand as it said error in
some line in some file. I opened that file and I couldn't understand
so I left it.


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manu