[tex-live] TeXLive 2008 installation over the Internet breaks for Solaris10 x86

[Michael E. Thomadakis]

Karl,

thanks for the quick reply. 

Indeed using a GNU tar version did the trick for Solaris10_x86  

Thanks for all the good TeX work .... 

Michael

On Wed, 8 Oct 2008, Karl Berry wrote:

| Date: Wed, 8 Oct 2008 18:32:12 -0500
| From: Karl Berry <karl at freefriends.org>
| To: miket at mikefire1.tamu.edu
| Cc: tex-live at tug.org
| Subject: Re: TeXLive 2008 installation over the Internet breaks for Solaris10
|     x86
| 
| Hi Michael,
| 
|     tar: /dev/rmt/0: No such file or directory
| 
| This message tells me that although we attempted to make all our tar
| invocations work with vendor tars, apparently we failed on your
| i386-solaris system.  I'm sorry.  I'll try to reproduce on a similar
| system and fix our installer.
| 
| The best way forward for you would be to install GNU tar, which can be
| compiled from its original source (http://www.gnu.org/software/tar) or,
| I expect, precompiled from some Solaris source.
| 
| By the way, for testing purposes, you may find it less frustrating to
| use scheme=minimal than the default scheme=full, since it'll download a
| tiny fraction of the full distribution before failing to install it ...
| 
| Hope this helps,
| Karl
| 

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