Issues installing 2013 SP1 Update 3 on Ubuntu 14.04

[Nicholas_C_1]

We just upgraded our lab server from 12.02 to 14.04, and we are trying to update our intel compiler versions as well, but are encountering some strange errors

First Question:  Are the SP1.3.174 compilers (i.e. l_ccompxe_online_2013_sp1.3.174.sh, l_fcompxe_online_2013_sp1.3.174.sh) compatible with Ubuntu 14.04?  The install script says no, but this page seems to imply that they are.

Secondly, once replacing the /bin/sh link to point to /bin/bash, and disabling the 32 bit libraries, everything seems to install correctly.  However, if I examine /opt/intel/composer_xe_2013_sp1.3.174/, there are no files present.  The ls of the folder gives:

drwxr-xr-x 3 root root  4096 Aug 15 09:58 uninstall

Inspecting the install log /tmp/intel.pset.root.sung-srv1_08.15.10.17.51.2014.log I find some very odd things:

First of all, there are a bunch of errors that look like this:

1408112272 - ERROR: : env_get_string_internal: arguments are bad.

Secondly, I get a bunch of skipped RPM's (not sure if this is normal), e.g.:

1408112272 - : file_exists: file /tmp/nick/l_ccompxe_2013_sp1.3.174/./rpm/intel-compilerprof-174-14.0-3.i486.rpm doesn't exist.
1408112272 - : is_skipped: component intel-compilerprof__i486 is skipped because RPM /tmp/nick/l_ccompxe_2013_sp1.3.174/./rpm/intel-compilerprof-174-14.0-3.i486.rpm is not available for download

I've uploaded a copy of the log here

Any help would be greatly appreciated,

Nick

[TimP]

The reference to which you referred says that only the Intel64 compiler installation is supported on Ubuntu 14.04.  Of course, this requires a 64-bit Ubuntu installed with the g++ development option.  If you try to install the ia32 Intel compiler, it's not expected to work, according to that reference.  So you would need to de-select ia32 in the installer, even though it is on by default.  Even with the intel64 installation, I suppose you may have to accept the "unsupported" installation.

On-line installation could easily fail if it is unable to re-establish connection to the download server at each required step.  In the past, I found the easiest way to recover was to undo the installation and switch to the full download.

[Nicholas_C_1]

Hi Tim.

I tried using the full installer with similar results.  I have switched the default shell to bash, and disabled the ia32 component in the installer, but there is still nothing in the /opt/intel/composer_xe_2013_sp1.3.174/ folder but an uninstall folder (with no script).

I've posted the updated log here

As you can see there are still a bunch of errors that look like this:

1408370481 - ERROR: : env_get_string_internal: arguments are bad.

Do I need to uninstall the old versions of the compilers beforehand?  I've been hesitant to break our working version before getting the new version installed

Nick