[AG-TECH] the latest pain....and a rant.

[Ti Leggett]

Just my 2c while everyone here's at it. If you're lazy like I am, you do
the following to force the RPM to install even if it a newer or same
version is installed:

rpm -Uvh --force AccessGrid-2.0-beta3.i386.rpm

Also, since you were using the CVS code, were you by chance using the
AGTK_LOCATION env variable? If so, make sure it's not set:

unset AGTK_LOCATION
env | grep AGTK


On Thu, 2003-04-24 at 16:57, Dave Semeraro wrote:
> Ok, first of all thank you to all of you who responded to my question about 
> the dreaded
> invalid URL error. All of your help is greatly appreciated. However my 
> problem persists.
> Of course in my quest for a solution I have made things worse. At one point 
> I had the CVS
> version of the venue client talking to the server at anl ( vv2:9000 ). I 
> thought I would investigate
> Tom's suggestion that I had a version mismatch. I grabbed the beta3 rpm 
> from the web site and
> installed it. Not only could I not connect to argonne but now I could not 
> connect to a server
> running on the same machine as the client. There could not possibly be a 
> version mismatch to
> a server on the same machine because I reinstalled everything... or at 
> least I think I did. You
> never know with rpm. In doing the reinstall of the ag beta3 I first tried 
> to erase the previous rpm
> install. rpm -e blah.rpm said package blah was not installed. Ok then rpm 
> -ivh blah.rpm. Now
> rpm says package blah is already installed. Well which is it? I hate rpm. 
> Tonight I am going to
> repartition and start over again from a clean linux install. Ya thats it... 
> Heh Heh Heh. Or maybe
> I will just throw my computer out of the window. No I cant do that I might 
> hit some poor innocent
> person on the street. I hate computers ....
> 
> Now for a real question. Since I am going to start over, should I get the 
> srpms or  rpms from 
> http://www-unix.mcs.anl.gov/fl/research/accessgrid/software/2.0-beta3/index.html
> 
> Has anyone successfully installed AG2.0 beta3 on a linux box and had 
> everything work? If so
> could they contact me directly? Of course, if such a person does exist they 
> probably are not
> reading ag-tech.... :).
> 
> Regards,
> Dave
> 
> 
> Dave Semeraro Ph.D.
> Visualization and Virtual Environments Group
> NCSA University of Illinois
> 605 E. Springfield Ave.
> Champaign, IL 61820
> Semeraro at ncsa.uiuc.edu
> (217) 244-1852
>