[GRASSLIST:1921] Re: problem with grass5

[mlennert at club.worldonline.be]

> Hello Michele
> 
> michele.rocc at libero.it wrote:
> > 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I dowloaded Grass5.0.0pre1 precompiled binaries from
> > http://www.geog.uni-hannover.de/grass/grass5/binary/;
> > made a CD (from a windows system) and tried to install into linux but
> > something goes wrong with the gzip compression, it seems, because an 
> > error occours and a message tell me that it's not a valid tar.gz
> > archive. Maybe there is some sagacity wile creating the CDRom to
> > maintain the portability between win and linux sistem?
> 
> I just found this problem. The problem is that the person who uploaded
> the binaries to the Germany server did not upload the appropriate
> grass5install.sh program as well. When the binaries are created, the
> size of the resulting tar.gz file is stored in the grass5install.sh
> program. This is done in order to check that the download of the binary
> file was successful. Thus both the tar.gz file and the install program
> need to be uploaded. So, the current grass5install.sh file is an old one
> for a previous binary.

Sorry for that !

Both Markus and I didn't realize this, so we left the old script.

I just uploaded the grass5install.sh into the 'incoming' directory in Hannover. Markus, could you put it online ?

Moritz