[mel-discuss] Minor installation issues with MEL kit for PandaBoard

[Cherry, John]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: mel-discuss-bounces at relay1.mentorg.com [mailto:mel-discuss-
> bounces at relay1.mentorg.com] On Behalf Of Seefeld, Stefan
> Sent: Monday, February 27, 2012 5:50 PM
> To: CS Mel-Discuss
> Subject: [mel-discuss] Minor installation issues with MEL kit for
> PandaBoard
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I have just downloaded the MEL kit for PandaBoard (from
> http://www.mentor.com/embedded-software/downloads/linux-kits/) and
> attempted to install it on my Fedora 16 laptop.

I see where you are going here.  MEL Kit documentation states that a prerequisite is a Linux host.  Since MEL Kit was prebuilt, eliminating most of the host dependencies, it was tested on Ubuntu 10.04 as the main host.  We really need to update the docs to clarify this.

> 
> Unfortunately the process wasn't quite as smooth as I had hoped. In
> particular, the installer tries to determine whether all prerequisites
> are installed. In my case, that's (lines 228 et seqq.):
> 
>      lib1=`yum list glibc | grep 'i[0-9]86' | grep -e "installed"`
>      lib2=`yum list *gtk* | grep 'i[0-9]86' | grep -e "installed"`
>      if [ -z "$lib1" ] || [ -z "$lib2" ]; then
>         echo "ERROR: 32-bit libraries required for this installer are
> missing. Please follow instructions below and restart the installer."
>         ...
> 
> when the actual output of `yum list glibc` would be:
> 
> glibc.i686    2.14.90-24.fc16.6    @updates
> glibc.x86_64  2.14.90-24.fc16.6    @updates
> 
> and likewise that of `yum list "*gtk*"`.
> Knowing that my system provided those prerequisites, I simply commented
> out the two bad lines in the installer, and everything ran to
> completion.

Thanks for workaround Stefan.  There may be other Fedora users that run into the same issue.

John

> 
> Thanks,
> 		Stefan
> 
> 
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