[sharp-discuss] sharp installation problems on suse 9.3

[Clemens Vonrhein]

Dear Jan,

indeed, this looks funny ...

Are you running:

  % ./installSHARP -F

    - or -

  % ./installSHARP -f

    - or -

  % ./installSHARP

(see also
http://www.globalphasing.com/sharp/installation/scenarios.html)


If you are running without the -F flag, only the SERVER will be
installed. You will need to still configure one or more MASTERs (using
the newmachine command) and also configure users. I recommend using
the -F flag, which will

  - install the software
  - configure the current machine as SERVER
  - configure the current machine as MASTER
  - setup the current UNIX user as SHARP/autoSHARP user

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I'm a bit surprised about the error

> ls: sharp.*.tar.gz: No such file or directory

Did you download all files into the same directory? Are there any
possible permission issues (i.e. downloading as a different user than
you use for installing things)?


While we're at it: there is sometimes a problem with the httpd binary
we distribute. It used to be, that all mayor Linux distributions were
very similar, and the (shared) binary we ship worked on all of
them. Now, with e.g. SuSE 9.3 and FC3 things start becoming a bit
tricky again (not all libraries are installed by default etc). So it
is possible, that the httpd will not start correctly. However, it is
very easy to do it yourself:

  % wget http://www.apache.org/dist/httpd/apache_1.3.33.tar.gz
  % gunzip -c apache_1.3.33.tar.gz | tar -xvf -
  % cd apache_1.3.33
  % ./configure --with-layout=Apache
  % make
  % cp src/httpd /where/ever/sharp/helpers/linux/httpd

Cheers

Clemens


On Wed, Jul 20, 2005 at 11:21:45PM -0700, Jan Abendroth wrote:
> Hi all,
> I am encountering weird problems while trying to install Sharp on my PC 
> running Suse 9.3 professional. After I downloaded all the required 
> files, ie.:
> - installSHARP
> - sushi.tar.gz
> - sharp.linux.tar.gz
> - helpers_client.linux.tar.gz
> - helpers_server.linux.tar.gz
> - sharp_tutorials.tar.gz,
> and placing the valid .licence file in my $BDG_home, I run installSHARP.
> Now the problems start:
> 
> - Install SHARP binaries now ? [y]es/[n]o/[e]xit/[s]kip > y
> 
> Machine architecture ( linux ) :
> [linux] >
> 
> Absolute path to the compressed SHARP file(s) ([s]kip) :
> [/home/jan/Programs/Sharp/sharp.linux.tar.gz] >
> 
> extracting /home/jan/Programs/Sharp/sharp.linux.tar.gz ... done
> 
> ls: sharp.*.tar.gz: No such file or directory
> 
> - Do you want to install them ? [y]es/[n]o/[e]xit/[s]kip > y
> 
> Absolute path to the compressed server helpers file(s) ([s]kip) :
> [/home/jan/Programs/Sharp/helpers_server.linux.tar.gz] >
> 
> extracting /home/jan/Programs/Sharp/helpers_server.linux.tar.gz ... done
> 
> ... however, eg. not setup-files are generated:
> jan at pcjan:~/Programs/Sharp> ls
> adm       helpers_client.linux.tar.gz  opsys                   sushi
> bin       helpers_server.linux.tar.gz  samples                 sushi.tar.gz
> database  installSHARP                 sharp.linux.tar.gz
> docs      lib                          sharp_tutorials.tar.gz
> helpers   machines                     submit
> 
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
> Thanks a lot
> Jan
> 
> -- 
> Jan Abendroth
> Howard Hughes Medical Institute and
> University of Washington
> 1959 NE Pacific Street, K-426
> Box 357742
> Seattle, WA-98195
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> 
> 
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