[UW-GIS-L] ArcGIS Server Installation

[Brian High]

Shannon Gray wrote:

> 

> Hi Brian,

> 

> Our ArcGIS 9.3.1 is running on 32bit linux, but the ArcSDE 9.3.1 is on 64 bit linux and we haven't seen any problems.

> 

> The ESRI support matrix says that RHEL 5 x86_64 is supported for ArcGIS 9.3.1 - http://wikis.esri.com/wiki/display/ag93bsr/ArcGIS+Server+Supported+Platforms 

> 

> I'm surprised it didn't work. Did you escalate to ESRI support? I understand that the UW license allows that when necessary.

> 


Thanks, Shannon.  Good to know.  We had only tried ArcGIS 9.3.1 Server 
on RHEL 5.4 x86_64.  After installing many 32 bit libraries just to 
satisfy the installation requirements, there were still lots of errors. 
  So I did some research and was unable to find anyone who actually got 
this to work.  Since this was not a critical requirement for our 
project, our client preferred to forgo additional efforts on this.

However, if anyone is able to get ArcGIS 9.3.1 Server to run properly on 
RHEL 5.x x86_64, I would be very interested to hear about it.  My 
understanding is that this is a 32 product developed for Windows but 
ported to Linux.

Even if you get it to run on a 64 bit OS, it will not be able to take 
advantage of the extra RAM, etc. on that system.  And the support 
required to make it run (lots of 32 bit libraries) can create (and did 
create) lots of conflicts in package management.  We had to use a number 
of additional repositories (RPMForge, EPEL, Fedora, etc.) to get all of 
the 32 bit dependencies installed.  Quite a lot of fussing with yum was 
required to shoehorn all of these in place.  And even then the product 
would not run.  So, if someone got it to work, please let me know.  Thanks!

--Brian