Why Won't Salome-Meca start?

I successfully got S-M to work flawlessly on my home laptop (thanks to all here!), and wanted to install it to my work computer.

I did a fresh install of Ubuntu 9.04 64 bit (it's what I'm used to) onto an intel quad core dekstop, and un-tar-ed the package for Salome-Meca (the same way I did for my laptop).

But after I run the postinstall script and try to run the program, I get this error:

[code:1]sesa@LinuxCAD:~$ /home/sesa/Salome-Meca/SALOME-MECA-2009.1-GPL/SALOME/runSalome
/home/sesa/Salome-Meca/SALOME-MECA-2009.1-GPL/SALOME/runSalome: line 24: /home/sesa/Salome-Meca/SALOME-MECA-2009.1-GPL/SALOME/SALOME4/V4_1_4/../Prerequis/debianForSalome-v1_2_0/bin/dirname: No such file or directory
CHECK
Searching for free port for the SALOME Naming Service: /home/sesa/Salome-Meca/SALOME-MECA-2009.1-GPL/SALOME/runSalome: line 33: /home/sesa/Salome-Meca/SALOME-MECA-2009.1-GPL/SALOME/SALOME4/V4_1_4/../Prerequis/debianForSalome-v1_2_0/bin/expr: No such file or directory
; /home/sesa/Salome-Meca/SALOME-MECA-2009.1-GPL/SALOME/runSalome: line 32: [: -lt: unary operator expected
'import site' failed; use -v for traceback
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/home/sesa/Salome-Meca/SALOME-MECA-2009.1-GPL/SALOME/SALOME4/V4_1_4/KERNEL_V4_1_4/bin/salome/envSalome.py", line 23, in <module>
import os
ImportError: No module named os
/home/sesa/Salome-Meca/SALOME-MECA-2009.1-GPL/SALOME/runSalome: line 52: /home/sesa/Salome-Meca/SALOME-MECA-2009.1-GPL/SALOME/SALOME4/V4_1_4/../Prerequis/Python-2.4.4/bin/python: No such file or directory
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Any suggestions?

Ok, I read a post that said caelinux might not play well with 9.04, so I installed 8.04 64 bit in an effort to get things to work better.

After installing Salome-Meca, per the readme file, I get this error:

[code:1]sesa@LinuxCAD:~$ /opt/SALOME-MECA-2009.1-GPL/runSalomeMeca
/opt/SALOME-MECA-2009.1-GPL/SALOME-MECA/414/prerequis-SalomeMeca-414.sh: line 1: /opt/SALOME-MECA-2009.1-GPL/SALOME/SALOME4/V4_1_4/../Prerequis/debianForSalome-v1_2_0/bin/dirname: No such file or directory
/opt/SALOME-MECA-2009.1-GPL/runSalomeMeca: line 64: /opt/SALOME-MECA-2009.1-GPL/SALOME/SALOME4/V4_1_4/../Prerequis/Python-2.4.4/bin/python: No such file or directory
/opt/SALOME-MECA-2009.1-GPL/runAppli: line 20: /opt/SALOME-MECA-2009.1-GPL/SALOME/SALOME4/V4_1_4/../Prerequis/debianForSalome-v1_2_0/bin/dirname: No such file or directory
CHECK
Searching for free port for the SALOME Naming Service: /opt/SALOME-MECA-2009.1-GPL/runAppli: line 29: /opt/SALOME-MECA-2009.1-GPL/SALOME/SALOME4/V4_1_4/../Prerequis/debianForSalome-v1_2_0/bin/expr: No such file or directory
; /opt/SALOME-MECA-2009.1-GPL/runAppli: line 28: [: -lt: unary operator expected
/opt/SALOME-MECA-2009.1-GPL/runAppli: line 48: /opt/SALOME-MECA-2009.1-GPL/SALOME/SALOME4/V4_1_4/../Prerequis/Python-2.4.4/bin/python: No such file or directory
/opt/SALOME-MECA-2009.1-GPL/runAppli: line 52: /opt/SALOME-MECA-2009.1-GPL/SALOME/SALOME4/V4_1_4/../Prerequis/Python-2.4.4/bin/python: No such file or directory
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What am I doing wrong? Is there a basic set of files or directories that I'm missing?

edit: Upon further reading, it seems I'm missing some files from /bin/. Should salome have put them there in the first place? Do I need to put them there manually? Did I do something incorrectly during install that made them not show up?<br /><br />Post edited by: Phill Christiansen, at: 2009/06/18 22:13