Thank you so much, James!
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<div>I cannot believe what an easy fix that was. I'm a graduate student at Virginia Tech in the new SuperDARN lab, and sometimes these linux boxes are really tricky.</div>
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<div>Have a good day!</div>
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<div>Nathaniel<br>
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From: James Tappin <sjt@star.sr.bham.ac.uk><br>
Sent: Fri, 17 Oct 2008 2:15 pm<br>
Subject: Re: 64-bit IDL and 64-bit IDL<br>
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<pre style="font-size: 9pt;"><tt>On Fri, 17 Oct 2008 12:59:54 -0400
<a href="mailto:w2naf@aim.com">w2naf@aim.com</a> wrote:
WC> Hello.
WC>
WC>
WC>
WC> I am using IDL (Interactive Data Language) 7.0 on 64-bit Ubuntu
WC> 8.04. Right now, I can only get IDL to install and run in 32-bit
WC> mode, but I need to have it run in 64-bit mode.
WC>
WC>
WC>
WC>
WC> Does anyone have any experience with this?
The problem is that the script that runs IDL assumes the existence of
/bin/arch which is not present in Debian-based systems.
Fix:
replace "/bin/arch" with "uname -m" in the driver script.
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