The other day I attempted to install Wildfire 3.0 in Linux. SuSE 10.1 x86_64, to be precise.
I know it is not certified as only some RedHat 3.2 Workstation based on kernel 2.4 or whatever is the only rubberstamped distro yet, but this has little to do with the problem. On a side note I might mention that the installscript doesn't work at all in Ubuntu 6.06.
The first problem I encountered was that the installscript would terminate halfways with a complaint that it couldn't unpack some .tgz files.
I figured it might be my CD making read errors, so I tried copying all the files to the HDD first. No errors on that procedure.
Then I ran the installscript from the HDD and still got the same error messages, only this time about other .tgz packs.
So I looked inside those packs and compared to the unpacked directory structure and found to some surprise that the files were actually unpacked just proper.
So I ran the installscript a few times and sure enough - the termination and error messages appeared at different places every time.
Odd.
Anyway, In the end I had a fully installed WF3 except that the final setting of system variables and such were not executed. This could be partially fixed by entering /usr/local/prc/proeWildfire3.0/bin and running the setup utility from there.
Voil
I know it is not certified as only some RedHat 3.2 Workstation based on kernel 2.4 or whatever is the only rubberstamped distro yet, but this has little to do with the problem. On a side note I might mention that the installscript doesn't work at all in Ubuntu 6.06.
The first problem I encountered was that the installscript would terminate halfways with a complaint that it couldn't unpack some .tgz files.
I figured it might be my CD making read errors, so I tried copying all the files to the HDD first. No errors on that procedure.
Then I ran the installscript from the HDD and still got the same error messages, only this time about other .tgz packs.
So I looked inside those packs and compared to the unpacked directory structure and found to some surprise that the files were actually unpacked just proper.
So I ran the installscript a few times and sure enough - the termination and error messages appeared at different places every time.
Odd.
Anyway, In the end I had a fully installed WF3 except that the final setting of system variables and such were not executed. This could be partially fixed by entering /usr/local/prc/proeWildfire3.0/bin and running the setup utility from there.
Voil