Licensed Ribbons Software Linux Executables

Licensed Ribbons Software Linux Executables

Last update: Sep 2, 2008
The default ribbons executables are compiled using Fedora Core 8.
(Starting with version 3.24, left my trusty old SGI and moved all ribbons development to my linux box.)

My home linux box crashed early this year, and the latest Fedora core installed in March.
These are the additional RPM's that were required for compilation:
yum install csh
yum install mesa-libGLw-devel
yum install tkinter
yum install compat-gcc-34-g77
and the package built with no problems in the standard configuration
I cannot help with Linux questions!
However, building from source should be rather easy. The problem is getting the right X/Motif/OpenGL/image libraries in place. And make sure you have Tk installed for Python. You may need to install openmotif libXm.so, instead of lesstif. Version 3.32 has these libs loaded:
  -lXm -lGLw -lGLw -lGLU -lGL -ltiff -ljpeg -lX11 -lXt -lXext -lXp -lm
 
I hope users will provide me with working Makefiles and/or libraries for their particular setup, as well as binary distributions for their particular architectures. Or pointers to the RPM's (or whatever) you had to install to make it work. ( rib_linux notes)

Compiled Executable Binaries:

rib_linux.tgz -- Complete /bin directory (version 3.32, Sep 2, 2008)

rib_binx.tgz -- Main program ribbons (version 3.32, Sep 2, 2008)
rib_binu.tgz -- Binary utilites for ribbons (version 3.32, Sep 2, 2008)

You must have the required files of the Base Distribution, plus one of the archives, eg, the recommended 'rib_linux.tgz', above. This is just a gzipped archive of the ~ribbons/bin directory. You can unpack with the base distribution's *.csh script, or just (from RIBBONS_HOME):
 tar xvzf rib_linux.tgz 
 