[Scip] Getting the vbctool to work in Ubuntu (and probably other derivations of Linux)

[Stefan Heinz]

Hi Tue,

thank you very much for your post.

Stefan

On 04/03/11 11:41, Tue Christensen wrote:
>
> Hello Scip mailling list!
>
>  
>
> If you have a working installation of the vbc (for visualizing the
> branching tree), or you do not care for it, you can disregard this post.
>
>  
>
> Scip supports the nice (but rather old) program called VBC for
> visualizing the branch and bound tree. However, downloading and trying
> to execute the Linux executables from the webpage did not work on my
> Ubuntu 10.10. Getting the source packages is not an option, since the
> link is dead.
>
> Here are the steps I made to make the program work with an almost
> fresh out of the box Ubuntu installation.
>
>  
>
> 1) Get the Open Motif library (libmotif3, maybe not necessary) and the
> OSF/Motif 2.1 (lesstif2). This is also stated on the webpage, but I
> missed it the first time.
>
> 2) However, the newest installation of lesstif2 does not include the
> shared library used (libXm.so.1). One fix is to go to /usr/lib and
> create a symbolic link to the newest version by "ln --s libXm.so.2
> libXm.so.1", hence we in reality just uses the .so.2 library instead.
>
> 3) Get the old (!) package called "libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2". Note it
> might have some additional numbers afterwards as well, in my case the
> full name was "libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2_2.95.4-24_i386" and can be found
> in the package repository for Ubuntu 6.10. Install the package.
>
> 4) As before we have to make a symbolic link in /usr/lib. This time do
> "ln --s libstddc++-libc6.2-2.so.3 libstdc++-libc6.1-2.so.3".
>
>  
>
> The installation should now work! When opening it might state that
> "Symbol '_XmStrings' has different size than...", it does not seem
> critical however. If you still have troubles running the program try
> "ldd ./vbctool" to see what library is not found.
>
>  
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> Note, by the linking of new libraries as the old ones strange things
> could happen if the new libraries are not fully backwards compatible.
> My few try's with vbctool did, however, not reveal any such.
>
>  
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> I hope this will save at least one person's Saturday evening!
>
>  
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> Best regards,
>
>  
>
> Tue R. L. Christensen,
>
> Aarhus University, Denmark
>
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