Hi Rory,
One *can* run GEM on Linux, if you had a Debian distribution it would be as easy as installing the package, otherwise you have .. you already guessed it .. to compile it yourself.
Compiling GEM on Linux is a really advanced task. Even for advanced Linux users. So I guess you don't want to do it.
Anyhow if you still want to try, ftp://xdv.org/pub/gige/gem/gem-0.84-6.tar.gz
within that look into the GEM.LINUX or src/Gnu/README.build files.
I will be away next week, so I can't really help you, .. during that time.
Guenter
On Fri, 29 Jun 2001, [iso-8859-1] Rory Walsh wrote:
I am trying to run gem with Red Hat linux but whenever I run the 'install.sh' file from the gem directory it says that it cannot create the directories, here what is displayed, [root@localhost gem]# ls GEM.LICENSE.TERMS GEM_INSTALL.sh GnuGPL.LICENSE examples GEM.README Gem.pd_irix5 doc
help [root@localhost gem]# ./GEM_INSTALL.shInstalling GEM... mkdir: cannot create directory../doc/gem_advanced': No such file or directory mkdir: cannot create directory../doc/gem_basic': No suchfile or directory mkdir: cannot create directory../doc/gem_io': Nosuch file or directory mkdir: cannot create directory../doc/gem_lighting':No such file or directory mkdir: cannot create directory../doc/gem_particle':No such file or directory mkdir: cannot create directory../doc/gem_pix': Nosuch file or directory mkdir: cannot create directory../doc/gem_texture':No such file or directory mkdir: cannot create directory../doc/gem.manual': Nosuch file or directory mkdir: cannot create directory../doc/gem.reference':No such file or directory Copying examples...cp: copying multiple files, but last argument (../doc/gem_advanced) is not a directory Trycp --help' for more information.....etc..I'm sure that it is something simple but as an iliterate linux user I'm stumped! Cheers, Rory.
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