Hi Tim. The installer looks like a binary file. I have run it from a shell window (BASH) but I've also run it from Nautilus by double-clicking on its icon. Nautilus Properties calls it Type: binary program and MIME type: application/x-executable-binary. I've tried, from the shell, installer-i386 --help, but all that does is start the installation process. I suspect it ignores any argument on the command line. There does not appear to be any script that tells me where things get installed. (I've looked at some of the packageinfo.xml.gz files, after copying them to a safe folder and gunzipping the copy, and they don't help.)
I have now, however, tried installing Ximian's .rpm of gnucash myself and then rerunning installer-i386 from shell. Now it doesn't get hung up at gnucash. It gets hung up with the error "Unable to complete RPM transaction: transaction has unmet dependencies: mozilla-1.3.1-0.ximian.4.5 conflicts with j2re < 1.4.1_01-0.ximian.4.7". Looks like time to update java, although that may break Moneydance... I'll keep you posted (will probably be back for help shortly!). =====Andrew On Wed, 2003-08-20 at 23:16, Tim Wright wrote: > I've got a couple of ideas of things to try. I guess last time you just > ran the installer program with no arguments? All of my comments assume > you're using bash BTW. > > It shouldn't matter what proxy server you're using because you're doing an > install from local media. If you want, try changing the http_proxy bash > environment variable and then run the script again. > > % export http_proxy="" > > (or something else) > > if the http_proxy variable is stuffing things up then you should see the > error message change slightly --- however I doubt it is as the missing > file (which appears to contain a URL) doesn't seem to have any proxy info > in it. > > What options can you pass to the installer program? Does it accept > "--help" to find out more? > > Hmm, which directory exactly contains the gnucash rpm? > > You could try searching the install-i386 script to find where it's trying > to install the rpms, and modify those lines. If you're not a bash guru > then send it to me. Hmm, that's assuming that it's a bash script and not > a binary file. If you do that then accompany it with the output from: > > % find /share > > so I know where all the files are :) > > Apart from that, I'm out of easy ideas (and, for that matter, hard ones:) > > Tim > > k
