[ydl-gen] TecPlot on YDL ppc?

[Derick Centeno]

Hi Moose:
If you review this page from their website:

http://www.adeptscience.co.uk/sysreq/getsysreq/103/tecplot+focus.html

You'll see the listing of the systems Tecplot runs on.  I comprehend  
your confusion regarding their presentation.
Let's examine what they present, ok?

For 32 bit OS although they list Linux, they don't specify if this is  
Linux running exclusively for x86 and compatibles or PowerPC or both.
However, for 64 bit OS they do specifically state that the only version  
of Linux supported are those which are x86 and compatibles.

It unfortunately, has been my experience (and the experience of many  
other participants here) that when a company writes a statement in such  
a manner it usually means that they provide support for Intel and  
compatible based Linux systems only.  You will have to contact that  
company -- Adept Scientific -- for a more detailed explanation of this  
webpage.

Regarding other software which may interest you please refer to here:

http://www.terrasoftsolutions.com/products/ydl/3rd_party/index.php? 
cat_id=4&PHPSESSID=a48d7f08ed1e279e128b6d4cd981f24c

You may care to look at GRASS (which is free as it is a GPL project)  
and also gnuplot is a reliable analytical standard for many  
professionals.  To find gnuplot within the YDL environment merely do:

$ locate gnuplot

If you decide that GRASS is more along the lines of what you need, it  
and Xephem are used for many other analyses besides the area of science  
for which they were designed.
Remember when you visit the 3rd Party DB for YDL above that for  
instance when you completed reading the information regarding GRASS or  
Xephem that you can arrive at their respective webpages by selecting  
More Info...

The source of Xephem is available for download and I understand from  
past email exchanges with it's designer that it compiles within PowerPC  
and should run within YDL with no difficulty.  Likewise the source of  
GRASS is available and should compile within the YDL environment  
without difficulty.

Best of Luck... Derick.

On Jul 11, 2006, at 3:14 PM, George Squirrel wrote:

>
> Anybody have any luck running TecPlot 360 on YDL 4.1?
>
> I've downloaded the Tecplot version:
> Intel - Linux 2.4 or newer (glibc 2.3)
>
> However I get the error...
> -bash: /usr/local/tecplot/bin/tecplot.shared: cannot execute binary  
> file
> when trying to install the demo license.
>
> According to TecPlot 'some folks at Boeing' have been able to use it,  
> but otherwise they're short on details.
>
> Thanks for any help anyone can give.
> Moose
>
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