[Sidefx-houdini-list] "Problem installing Houdini desktop items."
Floyd Gillis
floyd at afcg.com
Sat May 6 18:51:58 EDT 2017
Hi Peter,
Yes, launching from a shell, and everything seems fine. Just a nagging
little thing I'd like to track down.
Probably a "Jessie" install issue, and definitely not something
introduced with latest releases from SESI. Even h13, h14, & h15
installations cause the error now.
Cheers,
Floyd
On 5/6/17 11:24 PM, Peter Bowmar wrote:
> Hey Floyd,
>
> I'm guessing that will only result in lack of icons in the Start menu.
> If you launch from the shell (we all use the shell right? :) ) then it
> won't matter at all.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Peter B
>
> On 6 May 2017 at 05:17, Floyd Gillis <floyd at afcg.com
> <mailto:floyd at afcg.com>> wrote:
>
> Hi Francois,
>
> Yup, installing as root... into /home/hfs(version), with symbolic
> links from /opt & /hfs to /home
>
> Maybe I'll try a test install directly into /opt and see how that
> goes.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Floyd
>
>
> On 5/6/17 8:47 PM, François Duchesneau wrote:
>
> Hi Floyd,
>
> Make sure you have full administrative rights when you
> install. I'm not sure it's the problem but it's worth trying.
>
> Francois
>
> On 05/06/2017 01:07 AM, Floyd Gillis wrote:
>
> Hello List,
>
> I recently did a clean install of Debian Jessie.
>
> Now, when I install a new (or old) version of Houdini I
> get the following.../"ERROR: Problem installing Houdini
> desktop items."
> /
> This error occurs just after...///"Installing: Houdini
> menus..."/ and just before... /"Houdini install successful"//.
>
> /On initial testing Houdini runs fine and I don't seem to
> be missing any functionality.
>
> I never had this installation error message under Debian
> Wheezy and am wondering if anyone has more information
> about it.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Floyd
> //
>
>
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