Red Hat Enterprise = Fedora? for ProE

[andysuth]

Hi,

I'm trying to install ProEngineer Wildfire 3 on a Linux box.

They use Fedora 8, and ProE for Linux says it should be Redhat Enterprise 3.2

I know the Fedora is Red Hat based, but is it an equivelent of RH E3.2?

Can I download files to make it the equivelent?

Has anyone installed ProE (3d cad) software?

Thanks,

-Andy

[coopstah13]

I don't think thats the case, since RHEL4 was based off fedora 6. Did they tell you the packages and the versions their application depends on?

[Roxoff]

Even now there are many similarities. I used an RPM for fedora 6 on my Fedora 10 install the other day, 'cos that's what's all they have available.

I suspect that ProEngineer is a paid-for product? If so, you might want to just remind them that the current version of RedHat Enterprise is 5.x, and they're a long way behind.

That said, I'd still try to complete the install on your Fedora machine, ignoring the warnings might get you there.

Have you tried putting it on CentOS? It's built from the RedHat sources, but has the trademarked graphics replaced, and it might solve your problem.

[andysuth]

Even now there are many similarities. I used an RPM for fedora 6 on my Fedora 10 install the other day, 'cos that's what's all they have available.

I suspect that ProEngineer is a paid-for product? If so, you might want to just remind them that the current version of RedHat Enterprise is 5.x, and they're a long way behind.

That said, I'd still try to complete the install on your Fedora machine, ignoring the warnings might get you there.

Have you tried putting it on CentOS? It's built from the RedHat sources, but has the trademarked graphics replaced, and it might solve your problem.

It's a £5k basic package(!)

But it is good at what it does, 3d modelling.

The main problem is the computer lab I'm installing it on is running Fedora 8 for the other software.

PTC stopped supporting Linux based OS after WF3, they are up to WF5 now, so they may well be a little behind.

-Andy.

[Rubberman]

Well, you could install RHEL 3.2 in a virtual machine and then install the package there. It won't run as fast as on raw hardware, but it would run. Also, Fedora 8 is a bit dated as well - FC11 is coming soon!

[andysuth]

Well, you could install RHEL 3.2 in a virtual machine and then install the package there. It won't run as fast as on raw hardware, but it would run. Also, Fedora 8 is a bit dated as well - FC11 is coming soon!

I'm not one for updating on old hardware simply because a new edition has come out. I've tried Fedora 10 and wasn't too taken by the animated mouse (bouncing balls?) etc.

Sometimes you just want something that runs on the PC, and all these extras, just sap performance: look at the hatred Vista got even from microsoft fans.

Running this software as a VM wouldn't actually be viable, you need as much system resources as possible for 3d Modelling.

-AS

[Rubberman]

I'm not one for updating on old hardware simply because a new edition has come out. I've tried Fedora 10 and wasn't too taken by the animated mouse (bouncing balls?) etc.

Sometimes you just want something that runs on the PC, and all these extras, just sap performance: look at the hatred Vista got even from microsoft fans.

Running this software as a VM wouldn't actually be viable, you need as much system resources as possible for 3d Modelling.

-AS

You can disable the "bouncing balls" easily enough. There are some other options to indicate that an executable is loading, including none. However, you are correct in that 3d modeling may well require enough resources to preclude a VM for performance reasons - memory use is probably the bigger issue, as compared to CPU utilization I would think. In any case, FC 8 and RHEL 3.2 are generations apart in architecture and infrastructure. If the vendor of this package hasn't updated to a more recent version of RHEL, like at least 4 or 5, then they are not being very supportive of their customer base, in my opinion. My wife has to deal with a lot of high-performance applications at Fermi National Laboratory where she is a physicist working in the computing division. They have a mix of RHEL 4 and 5 based (FermiLinux - Scientific Linux) systems. I don't think they even try to keep software back-ported to RHEL3 distributions. Keeping software working with both version 4 and 5 is hard enough - I know because I have to listen to her complaining about it!