[tex-live] Problems installing texlive2004 on Solaris 2.8

[Creager, Robert S]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: karl at freefriends.org [mailto:karl at freefriends.org] 
> Subject: Re: [tex-live] Problems installing texlive2004 on Solaris 2.8
> 
> Sorry for the delayed reply.

Not a problem.

> 
>     install-tl.sh: 
> /proj/twolf/local/TeX/texmf/web2c/texmf.cnf: cannot create
> 
> This makes me think that somehow the texmf/web2c directory (among
> others) was created readonly, so the files couldn't get written there.

Wasn't even created (I'm creagrs)...

% ls -alt /proj/twolf/local/TeX/texmf
total 24
drwxr-sr--   2 creagrs  twolf       4096 Dec 10 17:08 lists/
drwxr-sr--   3 creagrs  twolf       4096 Dec 10 17:08 ./
drwxr-sr--   6 creagrs  twolf       4096 Dec 10 17:08 ../

% ls -alt /proj/twolf/local/TeX
total 48
drwxr-sr--   6 creagrs  twolf       4096 Dec 10 17:08 ./
drwxr-sr--   3 creagrs  twolf       4096 Dec 10 17:08 bin/
drwxr-sr--   3 creagrs  twolf       4096 Dec 10 17:08 texmf/
drwxr-sr--   8 creagrs  twolf       4096 Dec 10 17:06 texmf-local/
drwxrwsrw-   8 creagrs  twolf       4096 Dec 10 17:06 texmf-var/
drwxrwsr-x  44 root     twolf       4096 Dec 10 17:06 ../

> 
> fmtutil.cnf and friends are in the file 
> archive/bin-kpathsea.zip in the image.  If you simply unzip 
> that file into a temp directory, does it work?  I.e., are the 
> files created?  Is the directory left read/write?
> 
> The exact command run by install-compr.sh is unzip -o -qq 
> zipfile, but I'd be surprised if the options make a difference.

% unzip -o -qq /cdrom/texlive-2004/archive/bin-kpathsea.zip
 
creagrs at apocalypse:/tmp

% ls -alt texmf/
total 96
drwxrwx---   2 creagrs  twolf        186 Dec 13 17:47 lists/
drwxrwx---   2 creagrs  twolf        190 Dec 13 17:47 tpm/
drwxrwx---   2 creagrs  twolf       2076 Dec 13 17:47 web2c/
drwxrwx---   6 creagrs  twolf        361 Dec 13 17:46 ./
drwxrwxrwt  15 root     sys         1567 Dec 13 17:46 ../
drwxrwx---   6 creagrs  twolf        365 Dec 13 17:46 doc/

I can do the unzip manually into the correct location and re-run the
installation (tomorrow).  I didn't think the install removes the directory
prior to install, does it?

> 
> Also, maybe try with the current unzip? 
> http://www.info-zip.org/pub/infozip/

I'll get that installed tomorrow and see what happens.

Thanks,
Rob