Hello alll,

I posted this question on 3dbuzz.com. They advised I ask it it here.

I have just installed Mandrake 10.0. I've downloaded and installed Houdini. During the install process the setup program asked what I wanted to install software and license server or just software. I chose just software. As I understood with the non-commercial edition you download the license when you run the product. First question was that correct? 2nd issue: the install went great.I changed to csh shell and typed ‘source houdini_setup’ and houdini initialized. However when I then typed in ‘houdini’ to run the applicaton I got this error “houdini: relocation error: /usr/hfs6.1/dsolib/libHoudiniUT.so: symbol errno, version GLBIC_2.0 not defined in file libc.so.6 with linke time reference” . Can anyone tell me what went wrong here?

While its correct that you download the license when you first run houdini, you still need the license server. So try installing the lic server, and if afterwards the error is still there, try searching this forum and the one on odforce, I roughly remember reading about this error message.

Achim

Make sure you enter:

setenv LD_ASSUME_KERNEL 2.4.1

This would likely be necessary with the new-ish kernel shipping with M10…

Cheers,

J.C.

Thanks for the replies guyes

So far same error. Installed the license server and ran the Kernel command but no sucess. It seems like I am missing somekind of library or something.

Just so there's no confusion - you enter that setenv command before you do *anything* else, and you do all futher commands in the same shell, right? Also, have you made sure you're installing the RH9 version of houdini? I'm plum out of ideas if this doesn't work - but I'm fairly sure I've read that some people got houdini running in M10…

Cheers,

J.C.

Hello,

I thinks you need compat-libstdc++ and/or compat-libstdc++-devel rpms.

When I first tried linux and houdini I used Fedora and I read somewhere that I need these files. That solved the problem for me.
Now I'm on gentoo I use libcompat or compat-lib (not shure.)

Anyways try either or both of those rpms and see if it works. If it doesn't work you can always uninstall them.

Also someone on here is using mandrake 10. See here for unrelated issue:
http://www.sidefx.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=2602 [sidefx.com]

I hope you get it working!

yep that fixed the disk space issue, but i believe the latest build has that fixed so shouldnt be a problem. i didnt need lib-compat on mandrake 10. with houdini 6.1 you need to use setenv, but not with 6.5.x. below are the commands i use to run each version if it helps:

6.1

tcsh
setenv LD_ASSUME_KERNEL 2.4.1
cd /usr/hfs6.1/
source houdini_setup
houdini

6.5

tcsh
cd /usr/hfs6.5.83/
source houdini_setup
houdini