OK, XD2 is installed on my machine. Getting rid of Java wasn't an easy task - I wiped it out of every directory in which I could find files with names containing "j2re" or "jre" and the installation still hung - but I went back and removed the j2re-1.4.1 rpm (can't imagine what was left of it) with gnorpm, reran the installer for the nth time and it finished.
=====Andrew On Wed, 2003-08-20 at 23:16, Tim Wright wrote: > I've got a couple of ideas of things to try. I guess last time you just > ran the installer program with no arguments? All of my comments assume > you're using bash BTW. > > It shouldn't matter what proxy server you're using because you're doing an > install from local media. If you want, try changing the http_proxy bash > environment variable and then run the script again. > > % export http_proxy="" > > (or something else) > > if the http_proxy variable is stuffing things up then you should see the > error message change slightly --- however I doubt it is as the missing > file (which appears to contain a URL) doesn't seem to have any proxy info > in it. > > What options can you pass to the installer program? Does it accept > "--help" to find out more? > > Hmm, which directory exactly contains the gnucash rpm? > > You could try searching the install-i386 script to find where it's trying > to install the rpms, and modify those lines. If you're not a bash guru > then send it to me. Hmm, that's assuming that it's a bash script and not > a binary file. If you do that then accompany it with the output from: > > % find /share > > so I know where all the files are :) > > Apart from that, I'm out of easy ideas (and, for that matter, hard ones:) > > Tim > > k
