I just wanted to let anyone interested know that SPSS 16 for linux does work. At first impression everything works fine though the processing of analyses seems somewhat slower than on windows (same machine).
There were a few quirks I had to deal with to get it all going.
The installer is Java based and there currently is a bug that appears to cause a lot of Java based stuff to fail on Hardy. To be able to run the Java based installer run the following command:
Code:
export LIBXCB_ALLOW_SLOPPY_LOCK=true
As far as I can see this only needs to be done once before running the installer and not thereafter to run the program.
Apparently SPSS also doesn't like compiz. It will run fine if you turn off compiz but with compiz on it doesn't display properly. There is a workaround for this... you need to edit \SPSS16\bin\spss and enter the following code after the "#!/bin/sh" line:
Code:
export AWT_TOOLKIT="MToolkit"
Don't ask me what that does I didn't come up with it myself.
You can then create a launcher that will launch SPSS by using the command to \SPSS16\bin\spss rather than "SPSS" (in caps which is the regular launcher).
There you have it. I didnt come up with any of this myself but I pieced it together from random searches. (i.e. this french ubuntu forum http://forum.ubuntu-fr.org/viewtopic.php?pid=1534272)
To: Mods... is this the right forum section for this?
Hope this helps a few of you.
As far as I know there are no Java based problems in 7.10.
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