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| Installing IDL 6.1 on debian linux 2 [message #45090] |
Mon, 01 August 2005 09:07 |
Mathieu Malaterre
Messages: 32
Registered: July 2005
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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
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$ 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.
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-> 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
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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
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-> Nothing happen. I don't know what the install is looking for but I
have sudo power.
Attempt #3
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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
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-> Same problem. Nothing happen.
Attempt #4
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mkdir /tmp/cdrom
cp -r /media/cdrom /tmp/cdrom
cd /tmp/cdrom
sudo sh xinstall.sh
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-> 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...
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