Installing OpendTect on RHEL 6.x

The OpendTect Installation Manager and 6.6 are not supported for RHEL 6.x. It is however possible to install and run OpendTect 6.4 on RHEL 6.x and CentOS 6.x by installing via an offline installation package. This offline installation package can be created with the OpendTect Installation Manager. This can be done on a supported Linux Distribution or Windows.

To install the offline package:

  1. Transfer the od_offline_lux64 folder to the RHEL6.x or CentOS 6.x system

    Then on the destination system in terminal:
  2. cd od_offline_lux64

  3. ./unix_install.csh
    Please note: to be able to run the installer csh needs to be installed

  4. The installer asks for the path of where to install OpendTect, e.g. /home/user/OpendTect

  5. After installation is finished change the directory to the OpendTect installation directory

  6. Run ./start_dtect to start OpendTect

On RHEL 6.x and CentOS 6.x there can be error messages that will prevent you from starting OpendTect.

You might get:
/usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6: version `GLIBCXX_3.4.14' not found (required by /home/user/OpendTect/6.4.0/bin/lux64/Release/libosgQt5.so.145)
You might be able to solve this by installing a newer libstdc++ package. Here are some instructions to get it installed. There are no guarantees these instructions will work for your RHEL6.x or CentOS 6.x system. However, please note that it worked on our CentOS 6.x system:

When installing the newer libstdc++ package you will probably get the issue that you need a newer libc.so.6. Here are some instructions to get it installed. There are no guarantees these instructions will work for your RHEL6.x or CentOS 6.x system. However, please note that it worked on our CentOS 6.x system: