On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 2:45 PM, Daqi Tu <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:daqi.tu@gmail.com">daqi.tu@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
I was trying to install the 32 bit Phenix-dev-782 or the official release 1.7.1-743 onto a virtual ubuntu 10.04 32-bit machine. Both of them failed with this error:<br>
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/bin/tar: ./build/intel-linux-2.6/base/bin/wx-config: Cannot create symlink to `/net/longnose/scratch2/phenix/phenix-dev-782/build/intel-linux-2.6/base/lib/wx/config/gtk2-ansi-release-2.8': Operation not supported<br>
/bin/tar: Exiting with failure status due to previous errors<br>
/mnt/hgfs/windubuntu/phenix-installer-dev-782/bin/install-from-binary: 352: /usr/local/phenix-dev-782/build/intel-linux-2.6/base/bin/python: not found<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>The symlinks to our filesystems that hang around are a known problem, but they very rarely actually break the installer. �I tried dev-782 on a 64-bit Ubuntu 10.04 system without these filesystems - both the 32-bit and 64-bit FC3 installers - and it worked as expected, so it's probably not an issue with the installer itself. �After some quick Googling*, my best guess is that there is some problem with the local filesystems, particularly /mnt/hgfs. �Can you try moving the installer to /var/tmp and installing from there? �And could you please send me the output of �this command:</div>
<div><br></div><div>cat /etc/mtab</div><div><br></div><div>thanks,</div><div>Nat</div><div><br></div><div>(* search terms: "operation not supported" tar)</div></div>