Before installing PV‑WAVE on Linux

This section covers the third party packages that are required to run PV‑WAVE.

• libxml2 library: In order to run PV‑WAVE on Linux, you need to install the libxml2 library.

• Open Motif libraries: Open Motif libraries are required to install PV‑WAVE on Linux.

• SSL_connect OPI: If you plan to use the SSL_connect OPI, you may need to install the openssl-libs packages.

• Visualization ToolKit: If you plan to use the Visualization ToolKit (VTK), you may need to install the following libraries:

  • In order to run the VTK in PV‑WAVE on Linux, you need to have the 32-bit OpenGL libraries installed on your system.

  • Since VTK uses 32-bit drivers it ignores the 64-bit drivers on 64-bit Linux systems. Therefore, if you are running VTK on 64-bit Linux, you also need the following packages:

  mesa-dri-drivers.i686

  xorg-x11-fonts-Type1

  • If you see an error that libudev.so cannot be found when starting VTK, install the following package:

  libgudev1.i686

• Hardware fonts: PV‑WAVE maps the hardware fonts found in the following resource file:

<RW_DIR>/wave/xres/<!LANG>/kernel/fontmap_x

If the hardware fonts from this resource file do not exist on your system, PV‑WAVE may not function properly when attempting to use hardware fonts.

The default hardware fonts PV‑WAVE uses are found in the following Red Hat Enterprise Linux package:

xorg-x11-fonts-ISO8859-1-75dpi.noarch

On systems using xfree86, the package is:

xfree86-75dpi-fonts

• Missing library message: If a module fails to load with a message about a missing library, you need to install the appropriate package on your system in order to use that module.

• Linux VM: When installing PV‑WAVE on a cloned, Linux VM, you may see a message similar to:

  Graphical installers are not supported by this VM.
  <additional text>

  To correct this, install the following package and its dependencies on the target VM:

  • For 64-bit:

  libXtst-1.2.2-2.1.el7.x86_64.rpm

  • For 32-bit:

  libXtst-1.2.2-2.1.el7.i686.rpm