How to Install Ifort 8.0.039 in Ubuntu 9.04?

[zhangwei818800]

I want to install Ifort8.0.039 in Ubuntu 9.04. When Iextract l_fc_pc_8.0.039.tar.gz and open it, I use sudo sh install.sh or sudo ./install.sh,the terminal screen say: No Intel products or related products found in the '.' directory., it seems there are 3 .rpm packages init, so how can I solve this problem? Bythe way, I used toinstallifort11 ,10 inubuntu9.04, centos and fedora10 ,there are no such errors. Thankyou!

[Steven_L_Intel1]

This combination is not supported and is unlikely to work. We had to make a lot of changes to accomodate Ubuntu and that wasn't done until version 10. If you insist on using ifort 8, please limit your Linux install to one of the specific distributions and versions listed in the release notes.

[zhangwei818800]

Thank you ,Steve Lionel ! Ifort is a calssic complier, our cluster has been using this edition since 2005.

[Steven_L_Intel1]

Quoting - zhangwei818800

Thank you ,Steve Lionel ! Ifort is a calssic complier, our cluster has been using this edition since 2005.

Well, that may be, even though ifort 8.0 was released in 2003, but ifort has made many improvements since then. In any case, different Linux distros, and different versions of those distros, create compatibility issues and we have constantly had to make changes to the product as new distros come along. ifort 8 will work fine, at least as well as it ever did, on the specific distros listed in the 8.0 release notes, which were:

• Red Hat* Linux 7.3
• Red Hat Advanced Server 2.1
• SuSe* Enterprise 8 / United Linux* 1.0
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3.0
• Red Hat Linux 9
• Red Hat Linux 8.0

Use of 8.0 on anything else may not work. Ubuntu and Debian, in particular, required significant changes in the product, and each new version of Ubuntu breaks something. Either give up on Ubuntu and use one of the supported distros, or move to ifort 11.1 which is the first to support Ubuntu 9.04.

As I like to say: "Linux: A twisty maze of little distros, all different".