5 Installing HP Eloquence on the Linux platform

Installation on a Linux system

This document provides installation instructions for HP Eloquence on the Linux Platform. Please note, that the Linux platform is not supported by the HP Response Centers. However, you can obtain Linux support by contacting Marxmeier Software GmbH at eloq-support@msede.com.

Hardware requirements

In order to run HP Eloquence, your hardware should fulfil the following minimum requirements:

Processor
Intel Pentium processor or compatible.
RAM
You should have installed at least 16 MB of memory. When using X11, 32 MB are recommended. While it should work with less memory it may be slow.
Disk space
About 20 MB for the HP Eloquence software
Network card
HP Eloquence requires that a network card is installed as eth0.

System requirements

HP Eloquence on the Linux platform has been tested with the 2.0.29 kernel. As far as we can see, any 2.0.x kernel should work as HP Eloquence does not depend on specific kernel features.

Probably more important are the shared library revisions (as they are usually not backwards compatible). HP Eloquence has been linked against the following shared libraries:

   libncurses.so.3.0 => /lib/libncurses.so.3.0
   libg++.so.27 => /usr/lib/libg++.so.27.2.1
   libstdc++.so.27 => /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.27.2.1
   libm.so.5 => /lib/libm.so.5.0.9
   libc.so.5 => /lib/libc.so.5.4.33
If you are encountering segment violations or core dumps when using HP Eloquence on Linux you should verify that you have installed compatible shared library versions on your system. Either obtain the libararies from your Linux distribution vendor (eg. RedHat, Caldera, SuSE etc.) or download them from your next sunsite mirror (eg. on sunsite http://www.sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/GCC).

Compatibility

The Linux Version should be fully compatible to the HP-UX version with the following exceptions:

rxvt
(version 2.18) works with TERM=dtterm
xterm
works partially (no line drawing) with TERM=dtterm
dtterm
dtterm is part of the CDE 1.1 product which is available for Linux from either RedHat/TriTeal or Xig.

HP Eloquence Installation and Configuration - 26 NOV 1997