Messages from Usenet group comp.lang.idl-pvwave, compiled by Paulo Penteado
Hello, Since so many people replied I felt like I had to give it a try -again-. First problem: installation from cdrom. Again I am confident they are doing something wrong, and it's not not a debian only issue: I have sudo power (no root password): Attempt #1 ------------------------------------------------------------ ----------- $ sudo su - Password: testserver:~# cd /media/cdrom testserver:/media/cdrom# ls adobe apache flexlm info install xinstall.sh testserver:/media/cdrom# sh xinstall.sh You cannot run the Motif-based installer because your DISPLAY environment variable is not defined correctly or you are not running X Windows. Please define your display environment and execute this script again from a machine running X Windows. ------------------------------------------------------------ ----------- -> First problem, xinstall requires you to be logged as root (X session). There is no way a program can require such power (at least in a non microsoft world). Attempt #2 ------------------------------------------------------------ ----------- testserver:/media/cdrom# logout mathieu@testserver $ sudo sh xinstall.sh /media/cdrom xinstall.sh: line 307: /media/cdrom/install/xinstall/xinstall.linux.x86: Permission denied xinstall.sh: line 307: /media/cdrom/install/xinstall/xinstall.linux.x86: Success ------------------------------------------------------------ ----------- -> Nothing happen. I don't know what the install is looking for but I have sudo power. Attempt #3 ------------------------------------------------------------ ----------- mathieu@testserver $ fakeroot sh xinstall.sh /media/cdrom xinstall.sh: line 307: /media/cdrom/install/xinstall/xinstall.linux.x86: Permission denied xinstall.sh: line 307: /media/cdrom/install/xinstall/xinstall.linux.x86: Success ------------------------------------------------------------ ----------- -> Same problem. Nothing happen. Attempt #4 ------------------------------------------------------------ ----------- mkdir /tmp/cdrom cp -r /media/cdrom /tmp/cdrom cd /tmp/cdrom sudo sh xinstall.sh ------------------------------------------------------------ ----------- -> Ok finally replicating cdrom onto /tmp fixes the problem. The scripts are using an old fashion way to decompress tarballs: zcat | tar xf - Therefore everytime a file is decompressed it gives me an error. For base1.tz, base2.tz, demo.tz, idl_help.tz, javab.tz I get: tar: Read 6656 bytes from - I am guessing the error is ignored, but it would be nice that this would not be considered as an error. TO BE CONTINUED...