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Sascha Benjamin Jazbec
Hi,
this is no common "Problem with Vista" thread, but deals with something
special.
Experts on SUA for Windows - read on :
after installing Windows Vista Enterprise,activated via MAK and working at
very good speed ( compared to other retail vistas ) I now wanted to set up
the Subsystem for Unix.
I have a whole bunch of Linux and Unix applications and of course need to
have them installed on Windows, otherweise I wouldn't take Enterprise.
The SUA on Vista can only execute shell-scripts, ending with *.sh , no
problem as long as the essentials for further setups comes as *.sh, which
the most essential pkg-installer does.
To do this, I need the Pkg utils from
http://www.interopsystems.com/tools/pkg_install.htm
( Note : this is more or less the official site for extending tools to
Microsofts Interix - the Name of the Unix working underhood in Windows
Vista )
, because not every Unix program has a setup installer via *.sh shellscript,
Pkg installer installs compressed *.tgz files via "unzipping" the content to
the right Unix directories that reside in C:\Windows\SUA\..
So I fire up the Korn-Shell or the C-Shell, navigate to where the pkg
installer.sh has been downloaded and type in sh *.sh and installation of the
pkgutils begins , but fails with the sentence that gunzip ( the GNU zip
utils ) has not been found on SUA.
Investigating the directories C:\Windows\SUA\usr\contrib\ reveals that
indeed there is no gunzip, but unzip, which basically does the same, so now
I am a bit stuck.
I know that chance for getting answers here are low, but anyway - here I go.
Thanks for every hint ( concoles fault output follows below)
SJ / germany
Copy and paste from the Unix Shell "Korn Shell" on Vista run as Admin :
###########################################
WHEN INSTALLING THIS SOFTWARE YOU MUST BE:
+ the Local Administrator, or
+ a member of the Administrators group.
This installs the 'pkg' installer for Interix 6.0 (x86), version 2.7.0.
This also installs a newer version of 'ftp, 'pax' & 'tar' in '/bin'.
Updated versions of 'ls', 'gzip' and 'sort' are also installed.
This installation as a shell script is a bootstraping technique.
For help refer to http://www.interopsystems.com/tools/ or to an FAQ at
the bottom of page http://www.interopsystems.com/tools/pkg_install.htm
Press Enter to continue or ^C to cancel.
Now in directory /dev/fs/C/Users/Sascha/Downloads/for interix extracti
ng the file
Please wait...
pkg-current-bin35.sh[104]: /usr/contrib/bin/gunzip: not found
Archive file not extracted/decompressed correctedly.
This is an error. Exiting early. Software not installed.
%
###################################################
this is no common "Problem with Vista" thread, but deals with something
special.
Experts on SUA for Windows - read on :
after installing Windows Vista Enterprise,activated via MAK and working at
very good speed ( compared to other retail vistas ) I now wanted to set up
the Subsystem for Unix.
I have a whole bunch of Linux and Unix applications and of course need to
have them installed on Windows, otherweise I wouldn't take Enterprise.
The SUA on Vista can only execute shell-scripts, ending with *.sh , no
problem as long as the essentials for further setups comes as *.sh, which
the most essential pkg-installer does.
To do this, I need the Pkg utils from
http://www.interopsystems.com/tools/pkg_install.htm
( Note : this is more or less the official site for extending tools to
Microsofts Interix - the Name of the Unix working underhood in Windows
Vista )
, because not every Unix program has a setup installer via *.sh shellscript,
Pkg installer installs compressed *.tgz files via "unzipping" the content to
the right Unix directories that reside in C:\Windows\SUA\..
So I fire up the Korn-Shell or the C-Shell, navigate to where the pkg
installer.sh has been downloaded and type in sh *.sh and installation of the
pkgutils begins , but fails with the sentence that gunzip ( the GNU zip
utils ) has not been found on SUA.
Investigating the directories C:\Windows\SUA\usr\contrib\ reveals that
indeed there is no gunzip, but unzip, which basically does the same, so now
I am a bit stuck.
I know that chance for getting answers here are low, but anyway - here I go.
Thanks for every hint ( concoles fault output follows below)
SJ / germany
Copy and paste from the Unix Shell "Korn Shell" on Vista run as Admin :
###########################################
WHEN INSTALLING THIS SOFTWARE YOU MUST BE:
+ the Local Administrator, or
+ a member of the Administrators group.
This installs the 'pkg' installer for Interix 6.0 (x86), version 2.7.0.
This also installs a newer version of 'ftp, 'pax' & 'tar' in '/bin'.
Updated versions of 'ls', 'gzip' and 'sort' are also installed.
This installation as a shell script is a bootstraping technique.
For help refer to http://www.interopsystems.com/tools/ or to an FAQ at
the bottom of page http://www.interopsystems.com/tools/pkg_install.htm
Press Enter to continue or ^C to cancel.
Now in directory /dev/fs/C/Users/Sascha/Downloads/for interix extracti
ng the file
Please wait...
pkg-current-bin35.sh[104]: /usr/contrib/bin/gunzip: not found
Archive file not extracted/decompressed correctedly.
This is an error. Exiting early. Software not installed.
%
###################################################