Problems installing IC 5.1.41 in Fedora

Hi all! I'm trying to install IC 5.1.41 on a IBM laptop running Fedora
Core 4. I have installed several times IC and other tools in Solaris,
but this is the first time that I try on Linux. When I try to run the
"SETUP.SH" script from the original CDs (lnx86 media), I get the
following errors:
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Specify path of install directory
[OR type [RETURN] to exit]: /programs/cadence/IC

Setting up softload for lnx86 in /programs/cadence/IC

The following tar errors were detected:

/bin/tar: -b1: Not found in archive
/bin/tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
/bin/tar: -b1: Not found in archive
/bin/tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors

Could not set up SoftLoad in /programs/cadence/IC

You must have write permissions to install directory
and all its subdirectories
and atleast 10 MB available disk
space in install directory.
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It's worth saying that I have checked the directory permissions and the
free disk space, and they seem to be fine. The error happens also when
trying to install the other Cadence tools (ASSURA, DSMSE, etc.), from
the appropriate media (lnx86).

I have noticed that this error has already been reported when trying to
install Cadence in Linux; but so far I couldn't find a solution for
this on the web. I am an Europractice customer, so I don't have any
sourcelink support whatsoever... Any thoughts??? Please help!!!

Thanks in advance,

Jorge Luis.

 

By the way, when I try to install the tools in Red Hat 7.2 (using the
same media), the installer runs smoothly... I now it can be done (i.e.,
installing Cadence on Fedora core 4), but it seems to require some sort
of tweaking to get the installers running...

Has anybody else experienced this problem???

 

Yes, with SuSE where 'tar' also don't have the '-b1' option.
You have to tweak 'SETUP.SH':

# /bin/tar -xf $cdPathDir/IMAGES.DIR/FS.${fsnum} ./install -b1 2>/tmp/tarlog$$
/bin/tar -xf $cdPathDir/IMAGES.DIR/FS.${fsnum} ./install 2>/tmp/tarlog$$

PM

 

.... and in addition the same with '$cds_root/install/bin.lnx86/media_iface'
PM

 

not correct, '-b' is present but the order matters, s.below ...

/bin/tar -xf $cdPathDir/IMAGES.DIR/FS.${fsnum} -b1 ./install 2>/tmp/tarlog$$

 

OK, finaly I got it (it was a while ago):

1) Edit in your case '/programs/cadence/IC/install/bin.lnx86/media_iface'
and replace (2x) '$files -b1' with '-b1 $files'

2) Run '/programs/cadence/IC/install/bin.lnx86/softload'

3) You got it too ...

PM

 

Thanks so much for your help, PM!!!!
As a matter of fact your first solution seemed to work (just deleting
the -b1 option from SETUP.SH and media_iface). I however had another
problem since softload aborted for lacking of the "uncompress" program.
I solved it by copying the program /usr/bin/compress from a box with RH
7.2, and then creating a link to it on the target machine, named
"uncompress", in the same folder. After all that, the installer
(softload) seemed to work fine. Maybe I could have skipped this last
steps if I followed your parameter reordering approach; I will
nevertheless try it when installing the other Cadence tools and see
what happens.

Right now I am configuring the licensing for IC; hope that everything
goes well. I will make you know how did it go

Thanks once again for your help; it is certainly appreciated.