Linux installation

[alanc]

As someone else seemed to find - there are problems with installations of >=1.4.3. I have tried 1.4.3 and now 1.5.0 and both fail. Here is the log:

bash-2.05b$ ./setupfw150.bin
Preparing to install...
Extracting the installation resources from the installer archive...
Configuring the installer for this system's environment...
nawk: error while loading shared libraries: libdl.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
dirname: error while loading shared libraries: libc.so.6: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
/bin/ls: error while loading shared libraries: librt.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
basename: error while loading shared libraries: libc.so.6: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
dirname: error while loading shared libraries: libc.so.6: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
basename: error while loading shared libraries: libc.so.6: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
hostname: error while loading shared libraries: libc.so.6: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

Launching installer...

grep: error while loading shared libraries: libc.so.6: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
/opt/sun-jdk-1.4.2.05/jre/bin/java: error while loading shared libraries: libpthread.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
bash-2.05b$

I have tried with both blackdown 1.4.1 and sun 1.4.2.05 jdks and neither works. My kernel is 2.6.8.1 and the system is based around gentoo.

Hacking at the exe to remove size checking and the LD_ASSUME_KERNEL lines didn't fix it completely for me, but surely I shouldn't have to do this anyway.

[Wayfarer]

I'm using blackdown 1.4.1 on glibc 2.3.4 (NPTL), compiled with gcc 3.4.2, and I'm seeing the same problem. MultiTouch 1.4 seems to work at the moment; I'll see if I can hunt down the old installer and graft it to the new data. ^_^

[alanc]

If you have any success a patch would be lovely. I plan to have a go at removing the bad bits from the new installer - all the apps (like ls!) it complains about do of course work, so it is just the environment the installer is setting up.

[Wayfarer]

It turns out that vim was mangling the file in subtle ways when I tried to remove the LD_ASSUME_KERNEL. :eek: This led to all sorts of interesting filesize issues. So I just bit the bullet and used a hex editor to replace that bit with spaces.

It appears to work now. Patch attached (zipped so the forum likes it). Use -p0 for this.

[alanc]

Thankyou very much - I didn't realise it was going to be quite so simple to fix, and here I am typing on my lovely keyboard once more.

The issue with three finger drags is fixed for me too, but it is 6 months since I last had a go so I don't know how it got fixed.