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Re: gEDA-user: installation
> My experience has been that if you are missing some system dependencies, the
> first expect session will always fail, whether running as root or not. This
> may be unique to the openSuSe distributions, but I don't think so. It is
> more likely just an issue exposed by the fact that the openSuSe installations
> have less of the system dependencies installed out of the box. Maybe the
> SuSe distributions are the best way to test the installer :)?
In general I do test on SuSE 9.3, 10.0 and 10.1, and the installer
does work on those platforms.
As for the dependency installation failing: I have seen failures due
to several causes:
* Users running as root. The expect session wants to see "assword:"
when it tries to log in as root. If the user is already root, then
the computer doesn't ask for a password. Therefore, the expect
session just hangs, waiting for the "Password:" which never comes.
Solution: Don't install as root.
* Non-english users. This one was interesting. A German user had
the expect session hang immediately after he started the dependency
install. The reason was that his box asked for his password as
"Passwort:", the German word. The expect session was waiting for
"Password:". Therefore, it hung, waiting forever. I haven't done
anything to fix this yet. The fix will be for the install wizard to
set the local environment to English only upon startup. I haven't
implemented this yet because I am not sure what kinds of problems that
might cause (what happens if no English translations are installed?)
* The WTF catagory. In this catagory are some occasional,
intermittant failures I see in my testing. I don't know exactly what
causes them, but I suspect timing issues withing the call/response
process of the expect session. With the last CD I upgraded the expect
package, so I'm hoping this problem will just go away. But I haven't
thoroughly verified that yet, either by verifying the design, or by
rigorous testing.
Stuart
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