I've tried installing Houdini apprentice 11.0.701 onto my ubuntu 9.10 32-bit machine.
Being a bit of a linux newbie I followed these instructions for the installation part:
http://www.sidefx.com/index.php?option=com_forum&Itemid=172&page=viewtopic&t=14289 [sidefx.com]
that all seemed to work fine,

but when I try to actually run houdini I get this error message:
/opt/hfs11.0.701/bin/houdini-bin: /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.11' not found (required by /opt/hfs11.0.701/bin/../dsolib/libtiff.so.4)

I thought at first I might of done something stupid like install 64-bit houdini onto my 32-bit machine, but I hadn't.

Would anyone be able to help?

thanks,
Michael

Just to confirm. You installed the build labeled as follows:

Linux i686 gcc4.4 (tar.gz)

Is this correct? ( If not, you need to use this build )

that's correct, I built from that one.

It looks like the tiff image library bundled with Houdini is expecting GLIBC version >= 2.11.

You can find your version of glibc with the following command.

ldd –version


If you haven't done so, make sure you run a full system update. Usually a lot of packages are updated with a fresh install. (especially when the particular version of Linux has been out a while)

If you still get the error I would try the following build.

Linux i686 gcc4.1 (tar.gz)

If that fails we can try some other things to get you sorted.

I appear to be on version 2.10.1
I've tried doing a system update, but it didn't update that particular library.

Also the synaptic package manager tells me the latest version is 2.10.1.

The only thing I haven't tried is updating my ubuntu to 10.04.1 LTS - which the Update Manager tells me is available,
or is there another option available to me?

thanks for helping.

michael1
I appear to be on version 2.10.1
I've tried doing a system update, but it didn't update that particular library.

Also the synaptic package manager tells me the latest version is 2.10.1.

The only thing I haven't tried is updating my ubuntu to 10.04.1 LTS - which the Update Manager tells me is available,
or is there another option available to me?

thanks for helping.

It's no problem.

You should be fine using the GCC 4.1 build for i686.

It's listed as follows on the downloads page.

Linux i686 gcc4.1 (tar.gz)

that worked,
thanks a bunch.