such commercial programs often fail because of the newer shared lib versions, games have the same problem. You may have success with either a chroot type approach, or check out http://freshmeat.net/projects/rtldi/ for an interesting ELF interpreter which can startup programs using older libraries. - peter On Fri, 9 Jul 2004 liguorid@xxxxxxxxxx wrote: > > Hello everyone, > > > > Did anyone succeed to run matlab 6.1 under Fedora Core 2 ? And also there > > is problem to run Labview 6.1 using Fedora Core 2. > > > > Any suggestion? > > Thanks in advance. > > > > Mingzhai > > > > > > > I've tried Matlab 5.1 under FC2 to no avail, the installation script > fails. I remember being able to run it, to some extent, under some > version of Redhat, possibly 7 or 8. In general I've had little success > with Linux ports of closed-source compiled binaries like Matlab and Maple > (Maple runs in FC2, but only non-graphically). My current thinking is to > regard them as things I still need Windows for. You could look around for > open-source equivalents of them. > > >
