[ydl-gen] TecPlot on YDL ppc?

Kai Staats kstaats at terrasoftsolutions.com
Wed Jul 12 17:47:43 MDT 2006


George,

> 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.

In April of this year, the folks from TecPlot offered this:
> We were unable to come up with a convincing business case, so we're not
> going to pursue porting Tecplot on Yellow Dog Linux.

While I do not feel comfortable providing their email addresses in this list, 
I have BCC'd them and will appreciate your feedback as to the biz case 
(licenses) for their software on YDL.

Sincerely,
kai



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