[tex-live] TeXLive 2008 installation over the Internet breaks for Solaris10 x86

[Ettore Aldrovandi]

On Wed, Oct 08, 2008 at 06:32:12PM -0500, Karl Berry wrote:
> Hi Michael,
> 
>     tar: /dev/rmt/0: No such file or directory
> 
> This message tells me that although we attempted to make all our tar
> invocations work with vendor tars, apparently we failed on your
> i386-solaris system.  I'm sorry.  I'll try to reproduce on a similar
> system and fix our installer.

I have had the same problem myself and forgot to report.
 
> The best way forward for you would be to install GNU tar, which can be
> compiled from its original source (http://www.gnu.org/software/tar) or,
> I expect, precompiled from some Solaris source.

GUN tar is already in S10, installed as /usr/sfw/bin/gtar. I got around it
by making tar a temporary symlink to gtar. 

--Ettore

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