We recently (like last night) did an install of Xubuntu 8.04 and then fired up synaptic, pointed itat the stanford repository and installed the tinyos tools. no problem.
eric On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 2:38 PM, Faisal Aslam < as...@informatik.uni-freiburg.de> wrote: > Dear David, > > The last I have installed it was around a month ago. There was no such > error and I have installed fresh ubuntu and fresh tinyos without any > problems. Many students of my class have also installed it on their PCs > without any problems. > > I can only think of two reasons for your error. > 1) Either they have changed the Stanford repository during the last month > and now this is an new error in the new repository > 2) Or you are doing something wrong that is not mentioned in your emails. > > I can only try to install fresh Ubuntu and tinyOS on a PC again when I > have some free time to verify that point (1) is valid or not. Until then I > cannot help you much without some input from your side. > > best regards, > -- > Faisal Aslam > > University of Freiburg > http://cone.informatik.uni-freiburg.de/people/aslam/ > > > Hi Faisal, > > > > the steps mentioned in the link you gave are the same that I went > > through. > > > > 1. Install Ubuntu > > 2. Add Stanford repository > > 3. Install TinyOS packages > > > > But step 3 never finishes successfully for me. The installation > > process always is aborted with messages that the packages could not be > > downloaded due to hashsum mismatches. :-( > > > > David > > > > > > Am 17.06.2009 um 18:51 schrieb Faisal Aslam: > > > >> The tinyOS installation in Ubuntu is extremely easy. I have > >> installed it on multiple PCs of Ubuntu hardy and it took me only few > >> minutes. > >> I have used the steps mentioned here > >> > http://cone.informatik.uni-freiburg.de/people/aslam/takatuka/install.html > >> . > >> > >> best regards, > >> ---- > >> Faisal Aslam > >> > >> Ph.D. candidate > >> University of Freiburg > >> http://cone.informatik.uni-freiburg.de/people/aslam/ > >> > >> > >> > >> David wrote: > >>> Hi > >>> > >>> I'm trying to install TinyOS on Linux after ending up with a > >>> faulty installation of it on my Macbook when following the > >>> Installation instructions from tinyos.net. However, I tried it > >>> several times now with Ubuntu, Xubuntu and XubuntOS on a real > >>> machine and in vmware, I even gave Debian a try but nothing works > >>> for me. > >>> > >>> Every *.tar.gz file I download from tinyos.net is corrupted and > >>> cannot be unpacked. Not on my Macbook and not on a Windows > >>> machine. This is true also for the prepared vm images from the > >>> site, so I couldnt try out those. > >>> > >>> The XubuntOS iso image doesn't want to install at all. I havn't > >>> tried the Jenos vm-image (which is *.7z) yet but I'll do that > >>> soon. I havn't tried Gentoo yet either but I would like to avoid > >>> hours of installing the OS just to find it won't work again. > >>> > >>> I'd like to use (X)ubuntu but after installing the OS and adding > >>> the Stanford repositories, installation of the TinyOS packages > >>> fails with telling me about hashsum mismatches on several files. I > >>> get this error for all versions of Ubuntu and Xubuntu whether real > >>> or virtual. No matter if I update the system first or if I use it > >>> as it comes from the installation cd. I really do hope I am doing > >>> something wrong for I can't believe this whole thing to be this > >>> crappy. I have been searching the web already but found nothing > >>> helpful yet. Is there some way to avoid those hashsum checks on > >>> installing packets in ubuntu? Does anyone have any other idea what > >>> the matter could be? Any help would be appreciated. > >>> > >>> David. > >>> > >>> > >>> _______________________________________________ > >>> Tinyos-help mailing list > >>> Tinyos-help@millennium.berkeley.edu > >>> > https://www.millennium.berkeley.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tinyos-help > >>> > >>> > >> > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Tinyos-help mailing list > Tinyos-help@millennium.berkeley.edu > https://www.millennium.berkeley.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tinyos-help > -- Eric B. Decker Senior (over 50 :-) Researcher Autonomous Systems Lab Jack Baskin School of Engineering UCSC
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