This post addresses issues encountered when installing Absoft Pro Fortran 2012 on the latest releases of the 32 Bit Fedora Core, RedHat Enterprise Linux, Open SuSE, Debian, and Ubuntu Linux distributions.
Fedora Core 16 32 bit
A default installation of Fedora Core 16 requires the following additional software to fully support Absoft Fortran 2012:
Package Description
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gcc Support for software development
gcc-c++ Support for software development
xterm Terminal program used by AbsoftTools and Fx3 Debugger
Examples below give a possible error messages reported when a package is missing and the yum command to install the package.
1) GCC/G++ and other development tools not installed
Symptom:
$ af90 t.f
sh: as: command not found
assembler failed.
$ af90 t.f
sh: g++: command not found
link failed.
Fix: Install GCC and C++ support
$ sudo yum install gcc
$ sudo yum install gcc-c++
2) Unable to execute projects inside AbsoftTools
Symptom:
An error dialog appears which reads "Could not start "xterm -name "Absoft Tools"... "
Fix: install xterm program
$ sudo yum install xterm
RedHat Enterprise Linux 6.2 32 bit
A default Software Development Workstation installation of RedHat 6.2 requires the following additional software to fully support Absoft Fortran 2012:
Package Description
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xterm Terminal program used by AbsoftTools and Fx3 Debugger
Examples below give a possible error messages reported when a package is missing and the apt-get command to install the package.
1) Unable to execute projects inside AbsoftTools
Symptom:
An error dialog appears which reads "Could not start "xterm -name "Absoft Tools"... "
Fix: install xterm program
$ sudo yum install xterm
Debian 6.0.3 32 bit
A default installation of 32 bit Debian 6.0.3 from the Debian GNOME Desktop"Live" DVD requires the following additional software to fully support Absoft Fortran 2012:
Package Description
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gcc Support for software development
g++ Support for software development
Examples below give a possible error messages reported when a package is missing and the yum command to install the package.
1) GCC/G++ and other development tools not installed
Symptom:
$ af90 t.f
sh: as: command not found
assembler failed.
$ af90 t.f
sh: g++: command not found
link failed.
Fix: Install GCC and C++ support
$ sudo apt-get install gcc
$ sudo apt-get install g++
Ubuntu 11.10 32 bit
A default installation of Ubuntu 11.10 requires the following additional software to fully support Absoft Fortran 2012:
Package Description
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gcc Support for software development
g++ Support for software development
Examples below give a possible error messages reported when a package is missing and the apt-get command to install the package.
1) Link fails, g++ not found
Symptom:
$ af90 t.f
sh: g++: not found
link failed.
Fix: install g++ (along with other C development tools)
$ sudo apt-get install g++
