On Fri, 2002-08-30 at 12:01, Peter Harries wrote: > I have copied the file guilg00.gz to /home/peter/wpinst and ran the > first line. This gives me 14 files in that directory, including one > called Runme. It also deletes the file guilg00.gz.
Unzipping a file does not leave a copy of the compressed file. > > >From there I run the second line, which comes up with several pages of > text. It asks me if the files were untared, which I believe the first Yep. > line did. It then comes up with an error along the lines of "graphical > interface has failed", followed by several lines beginning with cmod, > and ending with file or directory not found. At the end it asks me to > enter the installation directory. If I type wpinst, or anything else, I > get the error "invalid area". Do you have other X applications that can work e.g. xterm? Maybe there's a problem with the X setup. Can you cut and paste the errors into an email and send it so we can see what the errors actually are? > > Looking at the hard drive I find a couple of things. The first is that > everything in the /home/peter/wpinst directory has been given a ".bk" > extension (except the Runme). The second are the directories created > /wp8, /wpbin, /wpexpdocs, /wplearn, /wplib, /wpmacros, /wpmacros/us. > They are all empty except for the wplib, which has a log file. This file > has about 160 lines - for example "./install. wp: linux/ins/wpdecom: no > such file or directory" Doesn't sound like the installation has actually happened! Maybe send the first 10/20 lines of the log as well. > > I am also having trouble with my cd not reading all files on the mounted > device (it works properly in the same machine under all windows > flavours) and my network setup, but these can wait at the moment. What do you mean by all files? Can you see some then? Under Linux you have to mount CDs to be able to see the files, though I expect you Red hat installation probably automounts them for you... -- ************** * Simon Wong * ************** -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
