Re: visad

• To: Jason Donahoe <jdonahoe@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
• Subject: Re: visad
• From: James Kelly <J.Kelly@xxxxxxxxxx>
• Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2001 08:09:49 +1000

Hi Jason,

I'm no Sun expert, but was able to find out most of what I needed to know by
searching the news groups (was called "dejanews", now taken over by google).

Eg an advanced search on google:
http://groups.google.com/advanced_group_search

specifying comp.unix.solaris as the newsgroup to search may help.

But perhaps the following notes might be useful too... we have kept track of
most of the downloads & what we did with them from day 1. It is not too long, so
I've included them all.

Hope this helps,

James


Installation Notes: 17 Feb 2000
updated 5 Jul 2000

(JK & ABCD)

1)
gzip downloaded from www.sunfreeware.com
to /usr/gzip-1.3-sol7-sparc-local
and then installed using:
pkgadd -d /usr/gzip-1.3-sol7-sparc-local
which automatically installed it to /usr/local/bin

make downloaded from www.sunfreeware.com
to /usr/make-3.78.1.tar.gz
and then installed using:
gunzip make-3.78.1.tar.gz

2)
netscape downloaded to /opt
and
installed to /opt/netscape

3)
JDK 1.2.2 reference version downloaded to
/usr
& installed
to /usr/jdk1.2.2 directory
by executing:
cd /usr; jdk1_2_2-001-solsparc.sh


adjusted link:
cd /usr
rm java
ln -s jdk1.2.2 java

3.1)
Check patches:
http://java.sun.com/products/jdk/1.2/install-solaris-patches.html
showrev -p
to see what patches

4)
Java 3D downloaded to
/usr/jdk1.2.2
& installed by executing
cd /usr/jdk1.2.2; java3d1_1_3-solsparc.bin

5)
VisAD downloaded to /opt

6)
NIS setup
i) NIS masters/slaves added to /etc/hosts
ii) domainname aifsho
iii) /usr/lib/netsvc/yp/ypinit -c
iv) modified /etc/nsswitch.conf to add
    passwd: files nis
    group: files nis
(after consulting the Sun Answerbook docs.sun.com
http://docs.sun.com:80/ab2/coll.47.8/NISQSTART/@Ab2PageView/idmatch(C8SWITCH-54446)#C8SWITCH-54446?Ab2Lang=C&Ab2Enc=iso-8859-1

7)
citrix ica client downloaded from:
www.citrix.com
to
/opt/citrix
and installed to
/usr/lib/ICAClient
ln -s /usr/lib/ICAClient/wfcmgr /usr/local/bin/ntws

8)
OpenGL 64 bit version downloaded from:
http://www.sun.com/software/graphics/OpenGL/download/dload.cgi
to /opt/downloads

Required Patches downloaded from:
http://www.sun.com/software/graphics/OpenGL/1.2/patches
106144-12.sh
106148-06.sh
and optional patch:
108131-06.sh
to /opt/downloads

chmod a+x *.sh
106148-06.sh
106144-12.sh

Ran the self extracting script file e.g.
% sh ogl121_rt32_64_h.shar


Earlier version:
% sh setup_sun_ogl12_solaris_runtime32+h.sh

9)
Downloaded Sun HotSpot compiler from:
http://java.sun.com/products/hotspot/1.0/download.html
Then ran :
hotspot1_0_1-solsparc.sh

[jk: I had trouble running the debugger jdb after installing this compiler]

10)
Downloaded xv from www.sunfreeware.com to:
/usr/local/xv-3.10a-sol7-sparc-local

11)
Patch 108376-06 downloaded from Sunsolve:
http://sunsolve.sun.com/pub-cgi/retrieve.pl?doc=fpatches%2F108376&zone_32=107078

(obseletes patch 107078-07 recommended on J2 web page)

downloaded to ~jamesk
unzip 108376-06.zip
patchadd /home/ho/rcds/jamesk/108376-06

12)
Downloaded VNC from:
http://www.uk.research.att.com/cgi-bin/vncform
to /opt/downloads & copied binaries to /usr/local

13)
Downloaded Perl from www.sunfreeware.com
to /opt/downloads

14)
Downloaded CVS from www.sunfreeware.com
to /opt/downloads
cvs-1.10.7-sol7-sparc-local

Then as root:
pkgadd -d cvs-1.10.7-sol7-sparc-local

15)
Downloaded Solaris 7 patch cluster from http://sunsolve.sun.com
to /opt/downloads, installed as per doco (approx 10 Nov cluster)

16)
Downloaded JDK1.2.2-06 patches (for solaris 7) to
/opt/downloads/1.2.2_06_patches_sparc_5.7.tar

installed with patchadd

17)
Downloaded patch 106980-13.zip from sunsolve to
/opt/downloads/106980-13.zip
installed with patchadd

18)
Downloaded JDK1.2.2-06 from sun to /opt/downloads/1.2.2_06_sparc_jdk.tar.Z
installed

19)
Downloaded java3d1.1.2 from Visad home page
to /opt/downloads/java3d1_1_2-sol-sdk.bin
installed in /usr/java1.2
via cd /usr/java1.2;/opt/download/java3d1_1_2-sol-sdk.bin

20) 22/12/2000 It's a Friday, its the last day before Xmas - lets patch! Doh!
Added 7_Recommended.zip (dated 19/12/2000)
patch 107081-24 needed for forte2? added with patchadd


Jason Donahoe wrote:

> Hello VisAD users,
>
> Does anyone have any experience installing openGL and Java2D, Java3D on
> sun sparc
> running solaris 7?
>
> >> I am trying to use VisAD on a solaris sparc running solaris 7.  Have
> you
> >> ever installed the openGL and Java2D, Java3D packages on a similar
> >> machine?  I am having a hard time getting everything to work.  Any
> >> suggestions would be much appreciated.
> >
> >I've never used Solaris 7, but I am sure many VisAD users have.
> >And I may be out of email contact for a few days. So you might
> >try sending your question to visad-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, and please
> >be specific about any error messages or other manifestations of
> >not working.
> >
> >Bill,
>
> --
> Jason D. Donahoe
> Vesta Care Inc.
> www.vestacare.com
> (858) 454-7800 ext.160

--
James Kelly
Regional Computing and Distributed Systems        Bureau of Meteorology
PO Box 1289K                                  Melbourne 3001, Australia
Phone: 61-3-9669-4724 Fax: 61-3-9669-4128     Email: J.Kelly@xxxxxxxxxx

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