I'm really bigginer of linux, so please someone help me please.

I tried install Houdini on Redhat WS4, and installer put all the files in /opt.

Then I try to go /opt/8.0.333/bin/houdini, but it said can't find .so files.

How can I lanch houdini? I read installation document, and it said I have to set bash file? whatever it said to do, but I don't know.

Maybe I should let the houdini know where those .so files are, I think.

Please let me know about instruction of installation of Houdini on RedhatWS4, and lanch successfuly.

The process to install on any Linux platform is the same.

In your case, be sure to go to the install directory and enter:

source houdini_setup_bash

then:

houdini

If you're still getting errors, then it's probably the version you're installing doesn't match up with the particular Linux you're running. To be honest, I'm unsure about which release to run on that distro - perhaps someone else can comment about that.

Cheers,

J.C.

Sourcing houdini_setup is an important first step, it sets up LD_LIBRARY_PATH so that Houdini can find its libraries. So in your case, you can do:
cd /opt/hfs8.0.333
source houdini_setup_bash
houdini
(assuming that you're using bash. If you're using tcsh as your shell, then source houdini_setup instead)

These instructions can also be found in the Readme.txt file in Houdini's installation directory.

Redhat WS4 can probably use the RHEL4 build. Do you have a file called /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6? If so, then you can use the RHEL4 build. If not, you're probably better off using the RH9 build.

Thank you so much you guys, It was easy.

or just make a text file with the following lines (edited to suit your system):


#!/bin/bash
cd /opt/hfs8.0.324/
source houdini_setup_bash
houdini


and then to make that file executable:


chmod +x your_text_file


and then you dont need to type anything