Quake 3 installation on FC5

wwp subscript at free.fr
Mon Oct 2 09:04:09 UTC 2006


Hello Deepak,


On Sun, 1 Oct 2006 23:08:54 +0800 "Deepak Shrestha" <d88pak at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 10/1/06, David C. Chipman <dchipman at ican.net> wrote:
> >         Hi again,
> >
> >                 My fault, you *do* want the underscore ("_"), *however*
> > Deepak, you need a space between "export" and the first underscore.
> > Sorry,
> >                         -David Chipman
> >
> > --
> 
> I have tried all the combinations:
> 
> export_POSIX_VERSION=199209
> export _POSIX_VERSION=199209
> export POSIX_VERSION=199209
> 
> after each export when I try to
> sh linuxq3apoint-1.32b.x86.run
> it gives me
> ============
> Verifying archive integrity...tail: cannot open `+266' for reading: No
> such file or directory
> Error in checksums: 433440451 is different from 2693581780

There you have a `tail` command-line incompatibility, that is well know w/
recent version of tail.


> ============
> 
> so change in result. Any clue?
> By the way what is the relevance of POSIX_VERSION for some shell scripts?

Edit the .run file and change the way it uses tail (possibly in several
places, best would be to look for "tail +" maybe), to be `tail -n 266
filename` instead of `tail +266 filename`.


Regards,

-- 
wwp
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