User:Magesing/Unigraphics NX

Unigraphics NX

The only current CAD/CAM/CAE package which currently supports linux, They officially only support redhat and SUSE, however, with a little bit of work it can be installed in other linux distros.

The following is what needed to be done in one case to get NX 8.0 working in Arch 4.3.3

Install dependancies

Install the korn shell

The install scripts are written in `ksh` so the korn shell is required to install NX [it is available from AUR](https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/ksh/)

Install libpng12.so.0

[Also available from AUR](https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/libpng12/)

Install libXp.so.6

   sudo pacman -S libxp

Unpack the tarball

   tar -xvf nx-8.0.0.tar.gz

Modify the install script to work with ARCH

Give yourself write permissions on the install script

   chmod u+x ug080/ug_install

Modify the script

Add the following lines after line 95 of `ug080/ug_install`

96     elif $( grep -i "ARCH" /proc/version 1>$NULL 2>&1) ; then # Its Arch.
97       # Not much to do here, just set X11_DEFS_DIR.
98       X11_DEFS_DIR=/usr/share/X11/app-defaults     # X11 app-defaults dir.

(I put the line numbers in to make it clear where these lines go in the file, please don't paste them in)

Launch the installer as root

   sudo ./nx080/ug_install

Follow the prompts to install NX, make sure that you point NX to a valid license server

The default install prefix /usr/ugs080 is fine,

Link libjpeg and libpng to fake old versions

I can't gaurantee that the new versions of libjpg and libpng are 100% backwards compatible, if you wanted to be sure, you could track down and install the proper versions from source, but the below symlinks will get NX running:

Symlink libjpeg.so.62

   sudo ln -sv /usr/lib/libjpeg.so /usr/ugs080/bin/libjpeg.so.62

Create a script to set the environment and launch UG

   #!/bin/bash
   export UGS_LICENSE_SERVER=<port>@<server>
   export UGS_LICENSE_BUNDLE=NX11110
   export UGII_ROOT_DIR=/usr/ugs080/bin
   export UGII_TMP_DIR=<some_tempdir_you_have_write_access_to>
   export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/ugs080/bin:/usr/ugs080/ugcatia:/usr/ugs080/step203ug:/usr/ugs080/step214ug:/usr/ugs080/nxproe:/usr/ugs080/ugto2d:/usr/ugs080/dxfdwg:/usr/ugs080/iges
   /usr/ugs080/bin/ugii

Run your launch script and enjoy UG under arch linux...