Operating System Limitations - Linux

The Linux releases of ArcGIS Engine-related products are only supported on CPUs that adhere to the x86 architecture. Esri only supports the following Linux operating systems, whose releases are designated by their respective vendors as "Generally Available", "Production", "Fully Supported" or equivalent (not "Beta" or derivative/binary compatible distributions).

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4

The Linux patches for Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 4 Update 4 minimum AS/ES/WS will be supported as long as the patches are from Red Hat without any modification to the latest kernel/glibc version.

The following package groups are required:

The Base System > X Window System Package Group (standard packages sufficient.)

From the Development Package Group:

• Development Tools Package, including gcc-g77 package from the Extra Packages section. (Note: The required library libg2c.so.0 is owned by the libf2c package; the libf2c package is provided by the gcc-g77 package.)
• Legacy Software Development Package (standard packages sufficient)
• X Software Development Package

The following additional software packages are required:

• cairo
• compat-libstdc++-33
• compat-libstdc++-296
• compat-libgcc-296
• compat-libf2c
• compat-openldap-2.1.30-12
• freeglut
• gmp
• gtk2 and gtk2-devel
• GNU C Library (glibc) 2.3.4-2
• libidn
• OpenGL Packages: mesa-libGL and mesa-libGLU
• openldap
• openmotif and openmotif-devel
• openssl
• xorg-x11-Xvfb-6.8.2-1

Note:

• All package versions listed must be at level stated or higher.
• For 64-bit OS support, if 32-bit versions of the above packages are available, they must be installed prior to installing ArcGIS.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5

The Linux patches for Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) Server 5 (32-bit and 64-bit) will be supported as long as the patches are from Red Hat without any modification to the latest kernel/glibc version.

NIS Client Limitation: ArcGIS installation hangs while registering libmwxml.so from a network client on Linux RedHat Version 5. See 37541 for more details.

The following package groups are required:

The Base System > X Window System—all package groups

The Base System > Legacy Software Support Group, including the following from Optional Packages:

• compat-libstdc++-33
• compat-libstdc++-296
• compat-libf2c
• compat-libgcc-296
• compat-openldap-2.3

The Development > Development Tools—all package groups

The Development > Legacy Software Development—all package groups

The Development > X Software Development - all package groups

The following additional software packages are required:

• cairo
• compat-libf2c-34
• compat-gcc-34
• freeglut -2.4
• GNU C Library (glibc) 2.3.4
• gmp
• gtk2-2.10 and gtk2-devel-2.10
• libidn
• OpenGL packages: includes mesa-libGL and mesa-libGLU
• Openldap package: openldap
• openmotif and openmotif-devel
• Openssl package: openssl

Note:

• All package versions listed must be at level stated or higher.
• For 64-bit OS support, if 32-bit versions of the above packages are available, they must be installed prior to installing ArcGIS.

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10

The Linux patches for SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES)10 SP2 minimum will be supported as long as they are from SUSE Linux without any modification to the latest kernel/glibc version.

The following software packages are required:

From Development > Languages > Fortran Package Group

• libg2c33 package (Note: This package is available as patch GNU G77 20081203 from Novell. See 37255 for more details.)

From System> Libraries Package Group

• compat packages
• freeglut package
• Mesa packages

From System > X11 > Utilities Package Group

• The X Window System Group (xorg-x11)

The following additional software packages are required:

• GNU C Libraries (glibc) version 2.3.4-2
• gmp
• gtk2-2.8.11
• libidn
• OpenLDAP Client Utilities
• openmotif and openmotif-devel
• openssl-0.9.8a
• Patch for Xserver Xvfb (xorg-x11-server-extra). (Note: This is a hardware-independent Xserver, which can be installed from XFree86-Xvfb-4.3.99.902-43.22.i586.rpm, which comes with SLES 10.)

Note:

• All package versions listed must be at level stated or higher.
• For 64-bit OS support, if 32-bit versions of the above packages are available, they must be installed prior to installing ArcGIS.
• To make a Direct Connection from ArcGIS Engine Runtime on SUSE to ArcSDE for PostgreSQL, please see the Esri Knowledge Base Article 38606 for details.