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Some things that might go wrong

What follows are some installation problems and their solutions.

No customer ID for send-pr
Make sure the program, send-pr, knows your customer ID. Contact Cygnus Solutions at +1 408 542 9601 if you do not know your customer ID. Install your customer ID with install-sid, as in the following example.

install-sid customer-ID

If you install the GNUPro Toolkit into a location other than the default, and you don’t set up symbolic links pointing to the real installation location, use the ‘--install-dir’ option to install-sid as in the following example. install-dir-prefix points to the top level of the installation.

install-sid --install-dir=install-dir-prefix customer-ID

Not enough space
If you don’t have enough space to install all of the tape distribution, you can instead extract only the compiled code, or only the source. You can easily extract these components independently of one another by using the ‘source’ or ‘bin’ arguments to Install. See Running the Install script.

No access to /usr/cygnus
If you can’t sign on to an account with access to write in ‘/usr’ or ‘/usr/cygnus’, use the ‘-installdir=directory’ option to Install to specify a different installation directory to which you can write. For example, if all the other installation defaults are right, you can execute something like ‘./Install --tape=/dev/tape--installdir= mydir’. You’ll need to either override default paths for the pre-compiled tools, or else recompile the software. See Running the programs and Links for easy access and updating for details.

Warning:
If you can’t install in ‘/usr/cygnus’ (or link your installation directory to that name), some of the defaults configured into the progressive-97r1a distribution won’t work. See Running the programs for information on overriding or reconfiguring these defaults.