Ansys 12.1, 14.0, 14.5 on openSUSE

Let's have a fresh installed openSUSE 12.3 machine (as minimal text-mode server).

The only prerequisite for the license manager is the package lsb:

zypper in lsb

Having lsb installed, I can install the license manager from the newest version available (14.5). However, the installation is not straightforward on openSUSE, the launching script is not able to launch the flexlm part of the manager. It has to be launched in advance. Then everything works.

For Ansys 12.1 itself (and VNC etc), install the following:

zypper in command-not-found
zypper in x11 -t pattern
zypper install tightvnc
zypper in libGLU1
zypper in openmotif openmotif-libs
ln -s /usr/lib64/libXm.so.4 /usr/lib64/libXm.so.3

(the last command is daring and cheeky, of course. But it seems to work.)

Now install the oldest Ansys. It correctly finds the license manager available and does not try to install its own (old) version.

Ansys 14.0 installs OK. Neither this version installs the license manager.

Ansys 14.5 installer tries to mess up the running license manager, but everything ends up well. No problems to launch /ansys_inc/v145/ansys/bin/launcher145.