GRADS successfully installed on a 64-bit LINUX machine!

[Alexander Beck-Ratzka]

On Wednesday 31 October 2007, Kevin M Levey wrote:
> WED 31OCT07: 1520PDT
>
> Dear Grads community
>
> I’ve come across many postings regarding installing GRADS 1.9b4 on a 64-bit
> LINUX machine. I’ve noted that not too many people have had success, esp.
> installing from the distributable source code obtained from COLA/IGES.
>
> As lady luck would have it, we recently acquired a new 64-bit Linux server
> running CentOS (Red Hat without the cost) and I had to install GRADS on
> this machine. Firstly, I am NOT a system-administrator, but I was able to
> install the 32-bit GRADS successfully on a 64-bit LINUX machine in under 4
> hours today. My lucky break came in the form a GRADS 1.9b4 RPM found on the
> following site:
>
> http://rpm.pbone.net/
>
> think of RPMs as Unix self-installing bundles easily run from the command
> line (as root user).
>
> Do a search for GRADS on http://rpm.pbone.net/ and you will see many
> flavors of UNIX listed there. FYI, you CAN install the latest FEDORA core
> versions on CENTOS since they both essentially come from the original red
> Hat Linux.
>

I just like to install it on OpenSuse 10.2 64-bit, are there any experiences
on that?

Cheers

Alexander