Re: Install CSDK and other Packages

Thomas Ronayne wrote: > Has anyone successfully installed, for example, CSDK from the IBM Linux > download? > > I have tried ever variant of cpio I can think of (finally settling on > cpio -idBumv < csdk.cpi) and continually get > > Extracting the message files to /tmp/install > cpio: premature end of file > Error: Out of space on /tmp/install. Set environment variable > TMP to a directory with at least 50 MB space. > > (My root tree -- where /tmp lives -- has 7,647,924 K bytes available.) > > What, if anything, can I do to get this thing to work? > > Thanks for any advice. > I've discovered that the problem is not running out of space but rather the cpio options embedded in the install scripts. The cpio options embedded in the install scripts (and in the Installation Guide) are cpio -icdumvB and these result in "premature end of file," which returns "not zero" to the shell; that in turn causes the "out of space" abort message. Manually executing cpio with just "-i" appears to extract everything from the initial tar (including creating the doc directory on that extraction), but editing the install* scripts and replacing "-icdumvB" with "-i" results in a failed installation, dammit. I'm trying to install in Slackware 9.1 with GNU cpio and I'm beginning to think I've got the wrong CSDK archive (although I have downloaded at least two different versions -- the one on the IBM site that says is 27M is actually 68M just like the other one) -- any hints?