[GRASS5] GRASS 5.7 binary for Cygwin installation problems

Paul Kelly paul-grass at stjohnspoint.co.uk
Sun Aug 29 18:51:51 EDT 2004


On Sat, 28 Aug 2004, Michael Barton wrote:

> He's downloaded them several times and tried to install them without
> success, getting the error "The size of the binary package is not correct"
>
> However, if we use a separate untar utility (or tar), it seems to uncompress
> and expand fine. He is going to go ahead and install it manually.
>
> Is there perhaps a problem with the shell script? In line 24
>
> TAR_FILE_SIZE=41899191

Change that number to the size of the file in bytes (check with ls -l) if 
you're sure it downloaded correctly. Or just delete the lines in the 
installation script that check the file size.

Paul





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