Brand new installation

[Alain Spineux]

On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 2:13 PM, Christian Tardif
<christian.tardif at servinfo.ca> wrote:
> Alain Spineux wrote:
>
> On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 5:49 AM, Christian Tardif
> <christian.tardif at servinfo.ca> wrote:
>
>
> Bernhard Reiter wrote:
>
> Am Dienstag, 17. Juni 2008 04:25:03 schrieb Christian Tardif:
>
>
> I finally found my way thru the compilation of kolab 2.2rc3 under
> Mandriva 2008.1 (in fact, I had to find out obmtool and obmtool.conf, in
> which I had to list the proper files to compile).
>
>
> What did you have to change?
>
> OK....  I realized that I took installation procedure for 2.1 version. I
> just started (from scratch) the installation of rc3 with the procedure
> described at:
> http://wiki.kolab.org/index.php/Kolab2_Installation_-_Beta_Sources
>
> so, this is with install-kolab.sh script. I'm now getting this at some time:
>
> /kolab/lib/openpkg/openpkg: command substitution: line 298: unexpected EOF
> while looking for matching `''
> /kolab/lib/openpkg/openpkg: command substitution: line 300: syntax error:
> unexpected end of file
> /kolab/lib/openpkg/openpkg: line 298: exec: shtool:path:Error:: not found
>
> How do I get rid of that, so I can go through the whole setup?
>
>
> Maybe you are using a exotic shell like csh or tcsh.
> Can you try running
>
> # /bin/bash install-kolab.sh -F -H .........
>
> I was running under sh. Anyway, I tried with bash, with no more luck.
>
> I did a little thing, then. I added, at the end of
> /kolab/lib/openpkg/openpkg (as per Gunnar):
>
> echo "exec ${cmd_shell} ${cmd_path} \${1+\"\$@\"}"
>
> in order to find out what was going wrong. I finally found that the error:
> shtool:path:Error:: not found
>
> is, in fact:
>
> exec shtool:path:Error: failed to create temporary directory
> `/root/tmp/.shtool.9895''

Maybe your TMPDIR was set
try

# echo $TMPDIR

>
> So, in order to continue the installation process, I changed (temporarily,
> of course) the permissions of /root and /tmp to 0777
>
> As of now, the installation process continues...
>
> Will let you know when  it stops...  for success or not.
>
> --
> Christian Tardif



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