Problem Installing the Academic MicroStation 95 for Linux

[73417 2023 compuserve com]

On 02/12/98 I purchased the Bentley Academic MicroStation 95 Mechanical
Engineering CAD software package to use with RedHat Linux 5.0 kernel 2.0.33
for the Intel platform. I had MicroStation 95 installed and running on the
RedHat Linux 5.0 with kernel 2.0.33. However, over the summer I had some
hardware failures and I had to upgrade to RedHat Linux 5.1 with kernel 2.0.35
to support the replacement hardware that I now have. I had to reinstall most
of my application software in Linux and I am having a problem reinstalling
MicroStation 95 for Linux in RedHat Linux 5.1. At first when I attempted to
run the ./setup program from the /mnt/cdrom/asuite95/ms95/linux directory of
the MicroStation 95 cdrom, it said:

  ./setup: Can't load library 'libncurses.so.2.0'

and it aborted back to the Linux Superuser prompt. So I remembered what I did
the last time I had this problem, which was to find the current version of
libncurses.so.x.x and symbol linked a new filename, called libncurses.so.2.0
to it and that solved the problem. However, when I did this with RedHat 5.1
with kernel 2.0.35, I now get a error message, which says:

   Segmentation fault

when I tried to run ./setup from the /mnt/cdrom/asuite95/ms95/linux directory.

I am not sure what else I should try besides find a old version of
libncurses.so.x.x and symbol link the filename 'libncurses.so.2.0' to it.
Do you have any ideas or suggestions that I can try?

Thank you.

Sincerely,

David A. Smith

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I have sent the above to Bentley Technical Support and they sent me back the
following reply:

From: Melissa Hook <Melissa Hook bentley com>
To: "'73417 2023 compuserve com'" <73417 2023 compuserve com>
Subject: FW: Academic Technical Support
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1998 17:43:26 -0400
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Dear David.

Although we deliver Microstation for the Linux platform, we technically do
not support it, if you will look in you setup guide it will tell you.  You
may want to try finding another version of the library, it may also be to
the fact that it may not be certified to run on Red hat Linux 5.1, this is a
fairly new version, and This is the very first release of Microstation 95,
and I know that it is not certified for this version.

Melissa Hook
HelpDesk Technical Support Analyst
Bentley Systems, Incorporated
690 Pennsylvania Drive
Exton PA  19341
Phone - (610) 458 -5999
Fax- (610) 458-1056
E-mail - academic support bentley com
E-mail - Melissa Hook bentley com

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I was wondering if anyone had a problem like this with an application program
for Linux that requires 'libncurses.so.2.0' to run with RedHat Linux 5.1 with
kernel 2.0.35? How did you remedy it to make it work?

Thank you,

David Smith

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