[Ramses]

Hi Forum!
I've got an Octane Dual 250 from an old job and I'm trying to acquire/install/run all the 3d programs I wasn't able to back in the great old 1990's

I can't seem to get Blender 2.49a properly installed.  I can unzip and de-tar it, but double-clicking what appears to be its application icon does nothing.  I'm sure I've missed steps since I only used SGIs a bit in college, but never had to admin one.  I'm probably in way over my head...
Google and Youtube don't really have any "Install downloaded programs in IRIX" tutorials.

Should I have been logged in as root to do this? 
Am I supposed to do something with the "inst" command now? (swpkg didn't work)

Thanks for any help, I"m sure all this is old hat to you guys.
Ramses

[Raion]

Hello Ramses,

IRIX is not like Windows. Firstly, what file did you download and from where? Link it here.

Most IRIX software is distributed in Tardist format. It must be opened via either the command line inst program, or software manager.

Now this is no Ubuntu either. You get dependency resolution, but no download, autoload, etc. It's early comparatively.

If it's not distributed as a Tardist, it's a guessing game assuming no package instructions came along.

[Irinikus]

Go into the console and cd into the appropriate directory and then type ./blender and the list of missing dependencies will be displayed in the console.

You will be able to install the required dependencies from Nekoware.

[Ramses]

Raion-
I downloaded Blender from here
https://download.blender.org/release/Blender2.49a/

Inrinikus-
Console output said missing dependency was
libCio.so.1

[vishnu]

libcio is part of the Irix c++_eoe package...

[Ramses]

So, I downloaded blender 2.48 for irix from the nekochan files.
There doesn't seems to be anything to compile, and it has no instructions.
Starting it from the command line says "permission denied"
Starting from the gui doesn't work.
Any ideas?
-Ramses    

[jpstewart]

It is still complaining about the missing libCio.so.1 so you have to do as vishnu said and install the c++_eoe package from the IRIX install media.  (That package should be on the "Foundation 1" disk, available from http://ftp.irixnet.org/sgi-irix/irix-6.5...-installs/ if you don't have it already.)

Also, note that the command to launch it from the current directory is './blender'.  Your screenshot show './ blender' with a space between the / and the b.  That won't work.  There should be no spaces.

[Ramses]

Still trying.  Still don't know what I'm doing.  Still not giving up...

I downloaded Foundation 1 disk from http://ftp.irixnet.org/sgi-irix/irix-6.5...-installs/
tar xvf foundation1.tar resulted in:

foundation1  which says its a Software Distribution Directory

inst tells me that it "does not contain any products"

Now what am I missing or doing wrong?

[Raion]

You need to point to the subdir dist? That's probably it.

[vishnu]

Wouldn't it be easier to just use the software manager? As root: swmgr