[GRASS5] GRASS 5.7 binary for Cygwin installation problems

[Michael Barton]

Thanks Teague. I'll forward this on to the list.

Michael


On 9/5/04 10:16 AM, "Teague O'Mara" <teague.omara at asu.edu> wrote:

> Just an FYI: Deleting the size line made the binary self install work
> perfectly.
> 
> Teague
> 
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Paul Kelly [mailto:paul-grass at stjohnspoint.co.uk]
> Sent: Sunday, August 29, 2004 3:52 PM
> To: Michael Barton
> Cc: grass5; teague.omara at asu.edu
> Subject: Re: [GRASS5] GRASS 5.7 binary for Cygwin installation problems
> 
> 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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