HOWTO: Run Pro/Engineer WF 3.0 on Ubuntu 8.10

[borissou]

Hello,

I also have a problem to run the mechanism module. No solution so far. But during the installation, the file proe1 wasn't created. I'm using the one I have from version w2 but if someone can share its proe1 file, I will be grateful. Thanks.

Boris

[fhansson]

Thanks for the tips. I installed Pro Engineer under Ubuntu 8.10 and it will start up but I have problem with the mouse. It is "delayed" when pointing and selecting objects. I have seen others having the same problem under Ubuntu but I have no solution. Does anyone here has the same problem?

[AlexVader]

Hi Firefox,

I am having the same problem that you had with ProE 3 WF...

I Used to have a different lappy, Asus F3Jr, with Ubuntu 7.10 installed...

I used to set the ethernet card to connect at boot time, in the network manager, and leave my wireless in roaming mode...

This way, everytime i ran ptchostid, it would return the mac adress of my ethernet... which was the license mac adress...

Somehow in Ubuntu 8.10 AMD64 which I use now in my HP Dv5 1170 I cannot do this "trick"...

How do I set my ethernet to "plug" at boot time...?

I am facing exactly the same problem that you had...

Did you solve it...? How did you manage to do it...?

Best regards

Alex

[dodjob]

Hi all,
Its works for me the only thing is that compiz doesn't start when I close Proe
I'm a noob but hey.. a noob with Proe )
If someone knows how it's working with this < -z "$PROE_PID" >
just to have it perfect actually
And.. Thank you!!!
H.

[uwabaki]

thanks for the tips
i had the same problem with compiz, fixed it with script used fo Eagle v.4, which had similar problems with compiz (curent version 5.6 is OK)

#!/bin/sh
WORKING_DIR=$HOME/proe/working # where ever you want
PROE_PATH=/home/"user"/proe/Wildfire3.0/bin # your install path

cd $WORKING_DIR
export LANG=en_US
export XLIB_SKIP_ARGB_VISUALS=1
exec $PROE_PATH/proe

EDIT: found some problem, this script works only if Compiz-Switch is used, if you switch off and on compiz using Compiz-Switch then it works, you could turn ProE on/off several times after using Compiz-Switch with no problems, dont know why

[senttrox]

Hi!

I have some problems... I have almost completed the instalation, but at the start I receive this message:

"WARNING: senttrox-desktop appears to have the loopback address 127.0.1.1 as IP address This may imply that processes on senttrox-desktop may not be able to connect to non-local processes NVIDIA: could not open the device file /dev/nvidiactl (Permission denied)."

PTC starts and then..

"License request failed for feature PROE_DDiTy: -8:
Invalid (inconsistent) license key.
Displaying status for license file: /home/senttrox/Documents/ptc_licfile.dat
License Server: none"

What is wrong?

[senttrox]

anyone...?

[OCEAN11]

Thanks hambone for the tutorial on this install, which is very difficult to accomplish.

I'm wondering if anyone has been able to install Pro-E Wildfire 3.0 using the 64 bit version of Ubuntu 9.10? I'm using the Ubuntu Ultimate Edition 64 bit version, but wondering if i can install a 32 bit version of Wildfire in a 64 bit version of Ubuntu ? My version of Wildfire is the student version. Thanks.

[hambone79]

Hi!

I have some problems... I have almost completed the instalation, but at the start I receive this message:

"WARNING: senttrox-desktop appears to have the loopback address 127.0.1.1 as IP address This may imply that processes on senttrox-desktop may not be able to connect to non-local processes NVIDIA: could not open the device file /dev/nvidiactl (Permission denied)."

PTC starts and then..

"License request failed for feature PROE_DDiTy: -8:
Invalid (inconsistent) license key.
Displaying status for license file: /home/senttrox/Documents/ptc_licfile.dat
License Server: none"

What is wrong?

For starters, you are using a pirated copy of Pro/Engineer.

[hambone79]

Thanks hambone for the tutorial on this install, which is very difficult to accomplish.

I'm wondering if anyone has been able to install Pro-E Wildfire 3.0 using the 64 bit version of Ubuntu 9.10? I'm using the Ubuntu Ultimate Edition 64 bit version, but wondering if i can install a 32 bit version of Wildfire in a 64 bit version of Ubuntu ? My version of Wildfire is the student version. Thanks.

I have done it before in a virtual machine to see if it was possible, but I can't find my notes on the installation process. If I remember correctly, I had to install the 32bit version of the Motiff libraries to make it work.