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From: Mark Creamer <mcreamer@××××××××.net>
To: gentoo-amd64@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] emerge of neverwinter nights fails
Date: Sun, 31 Jul 2005 23:06:44
Message-Id: 42ED593A.9090803@adelphia.net
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-amd64] emerge of neverwinter nights fails by "Michal Žeravík"
1 Michal Žeravík wrote:
2
3 > Very strange, because I'm running =games-rpg/nwn-1.65-r1
4 > without any problem on amd64.
5 > Try to delete distfile (probably nwclient129.tar.gz)
6 > and emerge again.
7 >
8 > michalz
9 >
10 >
11 > phil wrote:
12 >
13 >>On Sun, 2005-07-31 at 10:51 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote:
14 >>
15 >>
16 >>>Michal Žeravík wrote:
17 >>>
18 >>>
19 >>>
20 >>>>or run ebuild `equery w =games-rpg/nwn-1.65-r1` digest
21 >>>>
22 >>>>
23 >>> > and emerge again
24 >>>
25 >>>Good idea, but here it causes:
26 >>>
27 >>>Calculating dependencies ...done!
28 >>> >>> emerge (1 of 1) games-rpg/nwn-1.65-r1 to /
29 >>> >>> md5 files ;-) nwn-1.65-r1.ebuild
30 >>> >>> md5 files ;-) files/nwn
31 >>> >>> md5 files ;-) files/nwn-1.65-fixinstall
32 >>> >>> md5 files ;-) files/digest-nwn-1.65-r1
33 >>> >>> md5 files ;-) files/nwn.png
34 >>> >>> md5 src_uri ;-) nwclient129.tar.gz
35 >>> >>> md5 src_uri ;-) linuxclientupdate1xxto165eng.tar.gz
36 >>> >>> md5 src_uri ;-) NWNEnglish1.65dialog.zip
37 >>> >>> Unpacking source...
38 >>> >>> Unpacking nwclient129.tar.gz to /var/tmp/portage/nwn-1.65-r1/work/nwn
39 >>>tar: Skipping to next header
40 >>>
41 >>>gzip: stdin: invalid compressed data--format violated
42 >>>
43 >>>
44 >>>So I guess the problem is in the package, not the digest. Time for a bug
45 >>>report...
46 >>>
47 >>>--
48 >>>Rgds
49 >>>Peter Humphrey
50 >>>Linux Counter 5290, Aug 93.
51 >>>
52 >>>
53 >>>
54 >>>
55 >>Had the same problem as you and thought id try the package from
56 >>somewhere else , nwclient129.tar.gz is fine from fileshack so must be
57 >>something wrong with the bioware server.
58 >>oh and when you install follow the emerge instructions but also as root
59 >>touch /etc/env.d/91nwn
60 >>echo LDPATH=opt/nwn/miles > /etc/env.d/91nwn
61 >>env-update
62 >>
63 >>Happy Gaming :)
64 >>
65 >>P.Marples
66 >>
67 >>
68 >>
69 >>
70 >
71 I was able to get the installation complete with Phil's suggestion of
72 getting the file from another source. One question though, at the end,
73 there are a few steps to complete. The first one says:
74
75 Copy the following directories/files from your installed and
76 * patched (1.65) Neverwinter Nights to /opt/nwn:
77
78 What exactly is the "installed and patched" directory it's referring to?
79 --
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Re: [gentoo-amd64] emerge of neverwinter nights fails Chuck Milam <chuck@××××××.net>