Ubuntu & Labview

[cside]

Hi all

I am working for a research institute and our main controls are written in Labview - don't get excited. We are using LV 6.1 yes it's very old and it is NOT an option to upgrade Labview.

Currently I am running Ubuntu 6.06 LTS, I think anyway it was the last LTS. There might be an option to upgrade to the new LTS.

I am really wanting to move away from Windoze and I am having success albeit frustrating, and now it is time for me and Labview to fight it out. I have successfully installed the packages and I see them in Synaptics package viewer but I can not run labview. I have tried running labview from the /usr/local/lv61 directory and tried alt+F2 and typed labview - nothing happens. I guess I should be happy about that at least it does not crash. :)

Any hints tips or tricks that I can try or anybody get this combination of software to work?

Any help is greatly appreciated as long as you don't suggest upgrading LV.

[cside]

Ok, its all sorted out, and yes you can run Labview 6.1 under Ubuntu 6.06. For what it is worth to everyone.

A summary of what I did:
Extracted all .rpm files, installed them using rpm in terminal
They then all showed up under the Synaptic Package manager
When I tried running labview under terminal or from the file browser I got nothing.

IT Dept helped out.
Ran labview using "./labview" from terminal
found there was a missing "libLVMesaGL.so.3"
created link to this file, I also saw him playing in a conf file - not sure which
and ran LV again
-all working

I am not sure how stable or how good the installation is but at this stage I know it is possible to get everything working.

[DrOlaf]

If the installation files are rpm, you may also be able to convert them to deb using alien (http://www.howtoforge.com/converting_rpm_to_deb_with_alien). I've done that several times (though not with labview) and it has always worked well for me.

[cside]

When I went back to my procedure I see that I did actually use alien.