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renor_elghinn

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« on: June 01, 2005, 03:27:14 am »
The issue of the .run not working was resolved with the assistance of THIS help file:
http://metawire.org/~jon/Planeshift_3.010_linuxbinary_howto

the 3.010 .run file creates a temporary directory, extracts the temporary files, and deletes them immediatly after creating them, and then says its done, it dosn\'t ask me to agree to the liscence agreement or open a installer.

I\'m running:
AMD 3200XT
1024MB DDR ram
ATI Radeon 9600XT
SBlive (disabled)

with:
XandrOS (Debian-based)
« Last Edit: June 01, 2005, 06:05:15 am by renor_elghinn »

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« Reply #1 on: June 01, 2005, 10:12:03 am »
in console you can always use control + c to stop or control + z to pause your action. control + z also puts your job in the background, which can be seen through \"jobs\" and make back to the foreground and continue  by \"fg\".
just break after the package is unpacked .. go to folder an install manually.
but this problem is strange ... can you give some errors from console?

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« Last Edit: June 01, 2005, 10:14:03 am by lethe »

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« Reply #2 on: June 01, 2005, 10:43:49 am »
It surely gives you some message before, you should paste the console
output you get while running the installer. It must be some system specific
issue, since you are the first and only person who reports such weird behaviour.
You should start at checking that your system PATH variable is correctly set:
echo $PATH, then you should check if in that PATH you have the dialog program:
which dialog

If it is not displaying the license, it is most likely lack of this program.


Regards.
« Last Edit: June 01, 2005, 10:44:31 am by Platyna »
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« Reply #3 on: June 02, 2005, 06:51:05 am »
The issue is already resolved,

it gave me no error messages,
once the files were created by the .run installer they were supposed to be extracted by the .run install file as well, however it wasn\'t preforming this action, it was skipping it and moving on to delete the files it created and assumed it had completed its task sucessfuly,

I ended up having to extract all the compressed files from the .run manually threw the console, and then manually uncompress them.

The readme file link at the top of my initial post explains how to do this for those that don\'t know.
« Last Edit: June 02, 2005, 06:57:09 am by renor_elghinn »

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« Reply #4 on: June 02, 2005, 06:50:14 pm »
brant@Ubuntu:~ $ ./PlaneShift_CBV0.3.010.run --target ps
Creating directory ps
Verifying archive integrity... All good.
Uncompressing Planeshift Crystal Blue Version 3.010.....Extraction failed.
Terminated

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« Reply #5 on: June 02, 2005, 07:38:25 pm »
That installer requires dialog program to work. Install the dialog program, then just run the installer.
Also you have to make sure your download is not corrupted, the best way is comparing files sizes with these listed at: http://platyna.xpam.de/planeshift/.

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« Last Edit: June 02, 2005, 07:45:49 pm by Platyna »
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« Reply #6 on: June 13, 2005, 05:47:17 pm »
I checked to be sure but I have dialog installed.  Also the installer is the correct size and I have downloaded it 11 times now with the same issue.

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« Reply #7 on: June 13, 2005, 05:53:45 pm »
Well, then try to update your tar archiver and don\'t use --target. That option will
be removed soon anyway. You will be able to specify an install directory during
the installation process.


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« Reply #8 on: June 22, 2005, 04:02:35 pm »
I have the same problem :
sh PlaneShift_CBV0.3.010.run
Creating directory ps.cb.03.010
Verifying archive integrity... All good.
Uncompressing Planeshift Crystal Blue Version 3.010.....Extraction failed.
Terminated

Since yesterday, I updated my whole Suse 9.1 (this takes a while with UMTS :( ), hoping this would update tar. Well, now I get the same problem.
I will search through this forum further but if someone of you could help me I\'d be very thankful,           ilBaal

EDIT: AMD Athlon XP 1800+, 512mb RAM, Geforce 3, AC97 Sound
« Last Edit: June 22, 2005, 04:04:38 pm by ilBaal »
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« Reply #9 on: June 22, 2005, 05:52:16 pm »
What is md5sum of that file?


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« Reply #10 on: June 23, 2005, 01:03:39 am »
Hi!

md5sum PlaneShift_CBV0.3.010.run
d4776e9fdb5b774893285d053f0ea80b  PlaneShift_CBV0.3.010.run


THX in advance
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« Reply #11 on: June 23, 2005, 11:13:14 am »
Md5sum is ok...how about showing me tar --version?


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« Reply #12 on: June 23, 2005, 07:59:56 pm »
Akhem.

First check, if You have enough free space in the filesystem, where .run file resides. It self-decompresses to subdirectory ps.cb.03.010
Actually, I\'m able to reproduce the problem by filling my /home filesystem with some garbage.

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« Reply #13 on: June 28, 2005, 08:47:09 pm »
Greetz,

there is enough space in the filesystem. The tar-version is 1.13.25-298.

                                 THX in advance, ilBaal
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« Reply #14 on: June 28, 2005, 11:51:36 pm »
Well, try to upgrade tar, also see if you have enought space in your /tmp
directory and basic stuff like binutils installed - some distributions are
spreading them in a few packages. I can\'t reproduce this error.


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