1.8.8 on Linux (fedora 30)

[ColinThomas]

Hi,

As my macOS is too old for 1.8.8, I thought I would try and install on a fedora 30 (all updates installed) version. This seems to be supported re the below statement:

PixInsight 1.8.8 has been tested on the following Linux distributions:

Kubuntu 18.04 LTS
Kubuntu 19.04
Fedora 29
Fedora 30
Linux Mint 19.1

The installer (ran as root) though just gives:

[root@slartibartfast PixInsight-Linux]# ./installer

_____________       ________            _____        ______ _____
___  __ \__(_)___  _____  _/_______________(_)______ ___  /___  /_
__  /_/ /_  /__  |/_/__  /__  __ \_  ___/_  /__  __ `/_  __ \  __/
_  ____/_  / __>  < __/ / _  / / /(__  )_  / _  /_/ /_  / / / /_
/_/     /_/  /_/|_| /___/ /_/ /_//____/ /_/  _\__, / /_/ /_/\__/
                                             /____/
----------------------------------------------------------------------
PixInsight X11 UNIX/Linux installer version 1.8.8 Ripley
Copyright (C) 2003-2019 Pleiades Astrophoto. All Rights Reserved
----------------------------------------------------------------------

PixInsight will be installed with the following parameters:

Source installation directory ... /home/colin/Download/PI-Install/PixInsight-Linux/PixInsight
PixInsight core application ..... /opt/PixInsight
Application desktop entry ....... /usr/share/applications/PixInsight.desktop
Application icons directory ..... /usr/share/icons/hicolor
MIME type description file ...... /usr/share/mime/packages/PixInsight.xml
Create /bin launcher script ..... yes
Remove previous installation .... yes

==> Are you sure [yes|no] ? yes

Please wait while PixInsight is being installed...
Illegal instruction (core dumped)


Checking the OS version on the machine gives:

colin@slartibartfast% more os-release
NAME=Fedora
VERSION="30 (Workstation Edition)"
ID=fedora
VERSION_ID=30
VERSION_CODENAME=""
PLATFORM_ID="platform:f30"
PRETTY_NAME="Fedora 30 (Workstation Edition)"
ANSI_COLOR="0;34"
LOGO=fedora-logo-icon
CPE_NAME="cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:30"
HOME_URL="https://fedoraproject.org/"
DOCUMENTATION_URL="https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/fedora/f30/system-admini
strators-guide/"
SUPPORT_URL="https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicating_and_getting_help"
BUG_REPORT_URL="https://bugzilla.redhat.com/"
REDHAT_BUGZILLA_PRODUCT="Fedora"
REDHAT_BUGZILLA_PRODUCT_VERSION=30
REDHAT_SUPPORT_PRODUCT="Fedora"
REDHAT_SUPPORT_PRODUCT_VERSION=30
PRIVACY_POLICY_URL="https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Legal:PrivacyPolicy"
VARIANT="Workstation Edition"
VARIANT_ID=workstation

So this looks okay.. Any thoughts where the core dump might be coming from ?

many thanks

Colin

[Andres.Pozo]

If your computer is old perhaps it has an unsupported CPU.

From the release notes of the version 1.8.8:

Hardware Requirements: Breaking Changes

The FreeBSD, Linux and macOS versions of PixInsight 1.8.7 and 1.8.8 require a processor with SSE4.2 instruction support.