Subject: Re: [nmr_sparky] help on sparky installation on linux
From: Thomas Goddard
Date: Jul 26, 2006

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Hi Chenfeng,

I see that libstdc++.so.5 is not included in Sparky 3.110 so it wont
run on newer linux machines that omit this library.

I suggest getting the newer Sparky 3.112 (release candidate) which
appears further down on the Sparky web page. It includes libstdc++.so.6.
and should solve that problem.

The 3.112 version has been as stable as 3.110 (I maintain Sparky so I
see all the reported problems). If you really want to run 3.110 you
can get libstdc++.so.5 and libgcc_s.so.1 below and put them in the
sparky/lib directory and that should fix the problem in 3.110.

http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/home/goddard/temp/libstdc++.so.5
http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/home/goddard/temp/libgcc_s.so.1

The Sparky startup script tries running Python and if that fails then
it runs a version without Python. It should never fail in 3.110 and 3.112
because those versions have Python included. The older 3.106 did not
include Python. The graphical user interface and half of the features
(most of the core ones) work without Python. All of the Python features
are under the Sparky Extensions menu.

Tom