[tex-live] Tex-live unable to install in Solaris 10 x386

[Blai Bonet]

Dear Norbert and Vladimir,

Thanks very much for the promptly and excellent support!

My install-tl is

install-tl (TeX Live Cross Platform Installer) revision 12911
TeX Live (http://tug.org/texlive) version 2008
texlive-20080903

I downloaded yesterday from http://tug.org/texlive

By installing GNU tar in my solaris box, I was able
to successfully install TexLive.

The things that happened during the installation were:

1. installation aborted at the middle (after 2 hours)

2. I was not able to restart the installation from that
    point. Every attempt will do an installation from
    scratch, downloading all the packages already
    downloaded. It seems there is no the possibility
    to resume a failed installation.

Cheers,

Blai


Norbert Preining wrote:
> On Mi, 02 Sep 2009, Norbert Preining wrote:
>> On Di, 01 Sep 2009, Blai Bonet wrote:
>>>   Installing [1057/1550, time/total: 40:07/01:55:17]: pgf [3368k]
>>>   tar: ././@LongLink: typeflag 'L' not recognized, converting to regular file
>>>   untarring /usr/local/texlive/2008/temp/pgf.tar failed, please retry
>>>   Un-tarring /usr/local/texlive/2008/temp/pgf.tar did not succeed.
>>>   Installation failed.
>>>   Rerunning the installer will try to restart the installation.
>>>   Or you can restart by running the installer with:
>>>     install-tl --profile installation.profile [EXTRA-ARGS]
>>>   running post install action for bin-texdoc
>>>   running post install action for bin-texlive
>> How on earth did the program continue here???
> 
> I tried the same by creating a corrupt .tar file, compressed it with
> xz, and started the installation. And as expected:
> /--------
> | Installing to: /home/norbert/tlbla/2009
> | Installing [01/55, time/total: ??:??/??:??]: amsfonts [4993k]
> | Installing [02/55, time/total: 00:06/00:08]: apalike [10k]
> | tar: This does not look like a tar archive
> | tar: Exiting with failure status due to previous errors
> | untarring /home/norbert/tlbla/2009/temp/apalike.tar failed, please retry
> | Un-tarring /home/norbert/tlbla/2009/temp/apalike.tar did not succeed.
> | Installation failed.
> | Rerunning the installer will try to restart the installation.
> | Or you can restart by running the installer with:
> |   install-tl --profile installation.profile [EXTRA-ARGS]
> | Writing log file to current working directory.
> | $
> \--------
> 
> Can you tell us which version of the install-tl program you are using?
> Please call
> 	install-tl --version
> and tell us the revision number at the end.
> 
> Best wishes
> 
> Norbert
> 
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