Problems Installing on Ubuntu linux

[Invisible]

OK I downloaded the latest .run installer from the website last night but when I come to install it I get the following.


Creating directory ps.cb.03.010
Verifying archive integrity... All good.
Uncompressing Planeshift Crystal Blue Version 3.010.


Then it waist for a min or two and then I get....

Removing tmp files...


and that is it, there is no directory called ps.cb.03.010 to be found on the HDD or anything, though the run file stays where I downloaded it to (the dektop). I have chmodded it to 755 (as per another thread) and I have tried the sh command, and the same still happens. That is all the information I have as nothing else is being generated.

System specs are:

Ubuntu Linux 5.04
AMD XP 2.6+
1GB Ram
ATI radeon 9200
40gb HDD

Can someone please help?

[Platyna]

Check free space on your HD, Planeshift needs like 350 megs. Also you cannot
use this installer on windoze file systems and it is not going to change,
because I would have to resign from permissions sanity which might cause
alot worse problems.


Regards.

[Invisible]

After Checking the Free Space and File System, This is what i have.

Filesystem: EXT3
Free Space: 32.2GB

I have just downloaded from a differant website the files files needed to Run doom3 under linux, and that installled first time with no problems.

Any other suggestions please?

[Platyna]

So, have you got the dialog program installed? Make sure you do, if not then install it.

Regards.

[Wired_Crawler]

If You have provided ALL output You got, it is strange, indeed.
Try to run installer with --confirm option, You will be asked to confirm every step of procedure, it should help to determine, which step fails.
Also try to run it this way:
sh -x PlaneShift_CBV0.3.010.run > PSins.log 2>&1
(hit ctrl+c if disk stops working and nothing more happens)
In file PSins.log you will see additional info about commands executed (they will be prepended by \"+\" sign). What are the 20 last lines, or 20 lines prepending \"Removing tmp files ?\"
Just in case, post here also:
- output of \"df -Tk\" command
- values of environmental variables TMP, TMPDIR, SHELL,TERM (use command \"set\" or \"env\" to get these)
- hmmm... output of \"ulimit\" command

Another idea: when executing installer with --confirm option, hit ctrl+c after question \"OK to execute: ./setup.sh ?\" (if it appears at all of course). You will return to shell. Check the file setup.sh in subdirectory ps.cb.03.010. Is it empty by the chance (it should be 5548 bytes long) ? If it is not empty - try to execute it, You should be able to install PS this way.

You can also try to install PS manually, using instructions from here  http://metawire.org/~jon/Planeshift_3.010_linuxbinary_howto

[Invisible]

OK a little more information, this is what I have using the --confirm dialog thing (I am new to linux so I am not 100% sure what I am doing)

sh /home/richard/Desktop/PlaneShift_CBV0.3.010.run --confirm
Creating directory ps.cb.03.010
Verifying archive integrity... All good.
About to extract 269864 KB in ps.cb.03.010 ... Proceed ? [Y/n] y
Uncompressing Planeshift Crystal Blue Version 3.010..
OK to execute: ./setup.sh   ? [Y/n] y
./setup.sh: line 57: dialog: command not found
./setup.sh: line 59: dialog: command not found
./setup.sh: line 113: dialog: command not found

Removing tmp files...

thats what I am getting from start to finish.

[Wired_Crawler]

Ha!

./setup.sh: line 57: dialog: command not found
./setup.sh: line 59: dialog: command not found
./setup.sh: line 113: dialog: command not found

Why haven\'t You seen it earlier ?...

You must install dialog program.
Since Ubuntu is based on Debian, You will probably want to use command like \"apt-get dialog\", or \"dselect\" and select \"dialog\" package. Or - use graphical installer, if there is available any (I am not familiar with Ubuntu, sorry).

[Platyna]

First of all you had to see these errors earlier. And second of all I wrote
\"Known problems\" thread for purpose! I would like it to be respected and not
waste our time for answering all the time same questions because someone
is too lazy to read on five lines of text before hitting on \"new thread\".
I believe people has to learn how to RTFM.


Very upset,

[mobius_trip]

Just as a note, i as well use ubuntu and it DOES NOT show those errors without coaxing it to show you what its doing, probably not very nice to assume the guy was just being dumb... so he had NOT seen those errors already.... this post with explinations of how its the SAME dialog problem but with different results under ubuntu actually HELPED me alot, and would probably help others too  

now could someone tell me exactly what package this Dialog thing is?? and why do i need it? what does it do?

[Platyna]

Dialog problem has a detailed explanation in \"Known Problems\" sticky thread
on this forum. Along with other problems which occured in the current clien
and had been fixed. Anyway if on Ubuntu you once see the error and once not
then I have to take a look on it because these should be thrown on the console.


Regards.

[Induane]

lol - I had a similar problem with ubuntu - without dialog it failed without any error at all.  I installed it only on a hunch based on some forum posts, but not because I got a dialog error.  hehe, once resolved, it even didn\'t work again - no errors - never got it to work actually, just put it on a different system, ran it - then burned the stuff to a cd and copied it over - then it ran fine.

[Platyna]

So if anyone gets some weird installer exit on Ubuntu it is most likely lack of dialog program...:P


Regards.