Quake 3 installation on FC5

[Deepak]

Hi,

I have downloaded the quake 3 for linux but trying to install gives me
following error:
============
Verifying archive integrity...tail: cannot open `+266' for reading: No
such file or directory
Error in checksums: 433440451 is different from 2693581780
==========
I have tried downloading from various sources but still same error.

does this have something to do with FC5? I need some help

Thanks

[lostson]

On Sunday 01 October 2006 04:32, Deepak Shrestha wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have downloaded the quake 3 for linux but trying to install gives me
> following error:
> ============
> Verifying archive integrity...tail: cannot open `+266' for reading: No
> such file or directory
> Error in checksums: 433440451 is different from 2693581780
> ==========
> I have tried downloading from various sources but still same error.
>
> does this have something to do with FC5? I need some help
>
> Thanks

Try this before installing in a terminal do

export_POSIX_VERSION=199209

then go ahead and install in the same terminal

[Deepak]

> Try this before installing in a terminal do
>
> export_POSIX_VERSION=199209
>
> then go ahead and install in the same terminal
>
> --
> LostSon
>
> http://www.lostsonsvault.org

nothing new happens with that export. Still same error. any clue?

Thanks

[lostson]

On Sunday 01 October 2006 06:27, Deepak Shrestha wrote:
> > Try this before installing in a terminal do
> >
> > export_POSIX_VERSION=199209
> >
> > then go ahead and install in the same terminal
> >
> > --
> > LostSon
> >
> > http://www.lostsonsvault.org
>
> nothing new happens with that export. Still same error. any clue?
>
> Thanks

Hmm i'm not sure then and have been reading up on google about it as well. 
Can't seem to find any clear cut answer here.

[David Christopher Chiipman]

Hi lostson and Deepak,

There is no underscore ("_") between "export" and
POSIX in "export POSIX_VERSION=199209". Understand, what you are doing
here is telling the C library which version of the POSIX standard it
should emulate. I hope this helps you get Quake 3 unpacked. Later,

-David Chipman

[David Christopher Chiipman]

Hi again,

My fault, you *do* want the underscore ("_"), *however*
Deepak, you need a space between "export" and the first underscore.
Sorry, 
    		-David Chipman

[Deepak]

On 10/1/06, David C. Chipman  wrote:
>     Hi again,
>
>             My fault, you *do* want the underscore ("_"), *however*
>
> Deepak, you need a space between "export" and the first underscore.
> Sorry,
>                         -David Chipman
>
> --

I have tried all the combinations:

export_POSIX_VERSION=199209
export _POSIX_VERSION=199209
export POSIX_VERSION=199209

after each export when I try to
sh linuxq3apoint-1.32b.x86.run
it gives me
============
Verifying archive integrity...tail: cannot open `+266' for reading: No
such file or directory
Error in checksums: 433440451 is different from 2693581780
============

so change in result. Any clue?
By the way what is the relevance of POSIX_VERSION for some shell scripts?

Thanks

[Andy Campbell]

Deepak Shrestha wrote:
> On 10/1/06, David C. Chipman  wrote:
> >     Hi again,
> >
> >             My fault, you *do* want the underscore ("_"), *however*
> >
> > Deepak, you need a space between "export" and the first underscore.
> > Sorry,
> >                         -David Chipman
> >
> > --
>
> I have tried all the combinations:
>
> export_POSIX_VERSION=199209
> export _POSIX_VERSION=199209
> export POSIX_VERSION=199209
>
> after each export when I try to
> sh linuxq3apoint-1.32b.x86.run
> it gives me
> ============
> Verifying archive integrity...tail: cannot open `+266' for reading: No
> such file or directory
> Error in checksums: 433440451 is different from 2693581780
> ============
>
> so change in result. Any clue?
> By the way what is the relevance of POSIX_VERSION for some shell scripts?
>
> Thanks

When I had a simillar problem with StarOffice I used ....

export _POSIX2_VERSION=199209

Andy

[Mogens Kjaer]

Deepak Shrestha wrote:
...
> Verifying archive integrity...tail: cannot open `+266' for reading: No
> such file or directory

The behaviour of tail has changed from fc4 to fc5.

In fc5, you can't do

tail +3 file.dat

(note the plus).

man tail, however, says that it should work...

If you have access to an fc4 installation you can
copy tail from /usr/bin and put it temporary in
a directory earlier than /usr/bin in your path.

Mogens

[Mogens Kjaer]

Mogens Kjaer wrote:
...
> tail +3 file.dat

Hm, https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=175907

And it works:

$ export _POSIX2_VERSION=199209
$ tail +3 list.txt
3
4
5
6

Mogens

[wwp]

Hello Deepak,

On Sun, 1 Oct 2006 23:08:54 +0800 "Deepak Shrestha"  wrote:
> On 10/1/06, David C. Chipman  wrote:
> >     Hi again,
> >
> >             My fault, you *do* want the underscore ("_"), *however*
> >
> > Deepak, you need a space between "export" and the first underscore.
> > Sorry,
> >                         -David Chipman
> >
> > --
>
> I have tried all the combinations:
>
> export_POSIX_VERSION=199209
> export _POSIX_VERSION=199209
> export POSIX_VERSION=199209
>
> after each export when I try to
> sh linuxq3apoint-1.32b.x86.run
> it gives me
> ============
> Verifying archive integrity...tail: cannot open `+266' for reading: No
> such file or directory
> Error in checksums: 433440451 is different from 2693581780

There you have a `tail` command-line incompatibility, that is well know w/
recent version of tail.
> ============
>
> so change in result. Any clue?
> By the way what is the relevance of POSIX_VERSION for some shell scripts?

Edit the .run file and change the way it uses tail (possibly in several
places, best would be to look for "tail +" maybe), to be `tail -n 266
filename` instead of `tail +266 filename`.

Regards,

[Deepak]

On 10/1/06, Mogens Kjaer  wrote:
> Mogens Kjaer wrote:
> ...
> > tail +3 file.dat
>
> Hm, https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=175907
>
> And it works:
>
> $ export _POSIX2_VERSION=199209
> $ tail +3 list.txt

In my case tail is working without exporting the above line

I can do
tail +3 <somefile.txt> or +10 <somefile.txt>
goes without problem

but trying to do
sh linuxq3apoint-1.32b.x86.run
halts with previous stated problem

now I did export the _POSIX2_VERSION=199209
and
sh linuxq3apoint-1.32b.x86.run
went fine

by the way what is this POSIX_VERSION is all about? This is the first
time I have faced this.

Thanks and good day