On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 2:45 PM, Daqi Tu
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:
/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 /bin/tar: Exiting with failure status due to previous errors /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
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: cat /etc/mtab thanks, Nat (* search terms: "operation not supported" tar)