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Re: 32-bit apps
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Anders Kaseorg)
Wed Jan 4 19:33:20 2012
Date: Wed, 4 Jan 2012 19:33:15 -0500 (EST)
From: Anders Kaseorg <andersk@MIT.EDU>
To: Alex T Prengel <alexp@MIT.EDU>
cc: Geoffrey Thomas <geofft@MIT.EDU>, release-team@MIT.EDU
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On Wed, 4 Jan 2012, Alex T Prengel wrote:
> Well, a situation just came up a couple of weeks ago where a student
> ybirdja needed to install a Matlab add-on called FluidProp that only
> comes with 32 bit libs (and won't work on 64 bit machines). It installs
> in your home dir, not in the locker, so it doesn't affect anyone else
> that I know of. I told him to try linerva and I think it worked there...
The 32-bit version of Matlab seems to run fine on athena.dialup:
echo export MATLAB_ARCH=glnx86 > ~/.matlab7rc.sh
echo export MATLAB_JAVA=/mit/java/current/distrib/i386_ubuntu1004/jre >> ~/.matlab7rc.sh
cat /mit/matlab/current/distrib/bin/.matlab7rc.sh >> ~/.matlab7rc.sh
matlab
(MATLAB_ARCH can be set as an environment variable on the command line
instead of ~/.matlab7rc.sh. So could MATLAB_JAVA if you didn’t
unconditionally overwrite it in /mit/matlab/current/distrib/bin/matlab.)
> The other case I can recall is that the Maple "traditional" graphical
> interface ("add maple; maple" launches it) is only available for 32 bit
> machines. I have no idea if anyone would care if there weren't any more
> machines to run it on...
Have you tried running the 32-bit version on a 64-bit machine?
maple -binary IBM_INTEL_LINUX
I can’t get it to run on either linerva or athena.dialup over X
forwarding, but in both cases it gets as far as spewing an X error to
/dev/null, which according to strace looks like
X Error of failed request: BadName (named color or font does not exist)
Major opcode of failed request: 45 (X_OpenFont)
Serial number of failed request: 54
Current serial number in output stream: 55
So presumably it might work if I had the right fonts installed.
Anders
