I have been contacted by autodesk, systems support, hopefully they can work this out with me.
I will update the thread after I talk to them. > > "ln -s", not "ln- s" - however you /should/ do anything on but an infomrmed > opinion about the result, esp. when passing "su" or "sudo" :-) > Although I have looked at the ln and ldd man page quite a few times throughout this process but I would not say I have read them. > That path seems infoerior, now that you know you can get updated versions of > Xorg matching your requirements. I don't know if that is the case because I added the Xorg rpm repository where it was, and updated and tried softimage; then reinstalled softimage, still not working. > > for some reason, the sudo command will not work in this case. > the permissions might be blocked in visudo (you can likely sudo by your user password, while su requires the root one - and installing software is a critical action) > OK > The license is bound to the hostname? =) > The Autodesk license server needs a license which needs to be generated by Autodesk Softimage wont run without it. > it's configured in /et/hostname (surprise) since SuSE meanwhile uses systemd > (i think) you can (likely) either use Yast to configure it or > > hostnamectl set-hostname "<my_hostname>" > so eg. > > hostnamectl set-hostname "box" I will look into that > > Usually one would add such repo to the repo list of the packagemanager and > run an update to get the updated packages (Xorg in this case) en block. I believe that I did just now and still the same issue. > does not help me either =) I meant to say that it was a program that comes with the computer so is not something that you are likely to be familiar with. > It is absolutely not related to the topic of this thread (COM/OLE is a > Microsoft IPC system) and you'll unlikely have to invoke it ever. Oh, OK. seen here: http://xsisupport.com/2011/04/27/running-softimage-on-other-distros-like-ubuntu-kubuntu-pardus-and-gentoo/ > Usually binary blob applications ship with a launching script which is called > via the GUI launchers > (application list in GNOME or KDE) and sets all required variables. This is > not your problem atm. > OK, > . file > > will usually do (at least in Bash world, i've little to no experience in TCL) > Yeah, didn't know that, although you do have to use tcsh. > Cheers, > Thomas > _______________________________________________ > xorg@lists.x.org: X.Org support > Archives: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg > Info: http://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg > Your subscription address: egunt...@warwick.net Thank You -very much for all of the support, eric _______________________________________________ xorg@lists.x.org: X.Org support Archives: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg Info: http://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg Your subscription address: arch...@mail-archive.com
