$ cat /etc/redhat-release Rocky Linux release 9.2 (Blue Onyx)
sudo dnf config-manager --set-enabled crb sudo dnf install wget sudo dnf install tcsh sudo dnf install Xaw3d sudo dnf install Xaw3d-devel sudo dnf install libXaw-devel sudo dnf install ncurses-devel sudo dnf install gfortran
curl -O https://repo.anaconda.com/archive/Anaconda3-2023.03-1-Linux-x86_64.shCurrently, with a later Anaconda version (2023.07 with Python 3.11) we could not build the GIPSY Python module whatever version of Cython you install (see next paragraph).
One important package is not installed automatically and that is Cython.
pip install "cython<3"
sudo dnf group install WorkstationA user who enters a username at login, is able, through the little maintenance wheel, to select a desktop that is based on (Xorg/X11). After entering the password, a desktop will appear which is suitable to run all GIPSY graphical interfaces.
ffmpeg
is necessary to make videos in VISIONS. Plain installation with dnf
(as in sudo dnf install ffmpeg) does currently not work for Rocky Linux 9 (15-09-2023)
https://computingforgeeks.com/install-use-ffmpeg-on-rocky-alma-9/
sudo dnf install xorg-x11-fonts-misc sudo dnf install xorg-x11-fonts-ISO8859*
MESA-LOADER: failed to open swrast (search paths .......) libGL error: failed to load driver: swrastThis has to do with the fact that Anaconda uses different versions of libraries also found on the system.
in .bashrc for bash: export LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6.0.31
in .cshrc for tcsh: setenv LD_PRELOAD "/usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6.0.31"
export gip_root='/home/someuser/GIPSY' source $gip_root/sys/gipenv.sh export LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6.0.31which you activate on the command line with
source setgipsy.sh