Java extention

Forum: myDSL Extensions (deprecated)
Topic: Java extention
started by: caulktel

Posted by caulktel on April 14 2005,02:16

Is anybody having problems installing the Java Extension from the My DSL repository? I have tried 3 times, but have the same problem, it says failed due to checksum error.

Posted by roberts on April 14 2005,05:51

You didn't state which one, so I checked both the tar.gz and the uci. Both worked fine for me.
So maybe the checksum is really going to prevent bad extensions from being loaded.

Posted by caulktel on April 14 2005,13:56

Roberts, I used the tar.gz. After downloading the file three times, I would think you would get a good file. Any ideas as to what to do?

Posted by clivesay on April 14 2005,14:14

I posted this same issue in another thread trying two or three other apps. Not sure why some have issues and others don't.

Chris

Posted by cbagger01 on April 14 2005,16:37

Try manually downloading them via Firefox and the link on the main DSL home page.

This will focus the problem on either the script or on the downloaded file itself or networking problems.

Posted by roberts on April 14 2005,17:04

Joel & Chris,

After you get the checksum alert screen, open up an xterm and cd to /tmp or where ever you specified for the download files. Since I do not delete aborted downloads, you should see in that directory both the md5 and the extension.
Now manually do a checksum on the suspect extension, i.e.,

md5sum -c jre1_5_0.tar.gz.md5.txt

Downloading via other means won't tell me much, as the most variable of all is the latency of the internet. Unless a reproducible error can be produced, there is not much I can do. I have yet to get a checkcum error on any file that I have downloaded. In fact, I had to make a BAD md5 file on my webserver just to verify that the code would produce the checksum alert.

Also, Chris, if it works on some extensions and not others that would then not point to the code. The code is not variable, the extensions and conditions of the network and the internet are.

Checksuming was one of the most requested features as users were loading corrupted extensions caused by bad downloads. For liveCD just reboot but for hard drive installs it was causing much grief.

But please let me know the results for the manual checksum check.

Posted by clivesay on April 14 2005,17:07

I'll give this a shot and see what happens. It just may have been an internet thing that day. I did receive the error on all extensions I tried to d/l from the gui. It just seemed strange because I received the error on the xchat.uci but it ran fine when I loaded it. I may have just been lucky. I'll post my findings tonight.

Chris

Posted by caulktel on April 14 2005,19:15

Robert,

Here goes:
62a87f1a0da965cbe84946a12e5a246b

I got the same results on all three of my atempts.

Posted by roberts on April 14 2005,21:33

Quote

Here goes:
62a87f1a0da965cbe84946a12e5a246b

I got the same results on all three of my atempts.

Joel, that is not a valid checksum! The checksum should be: 4d490665b99b100d50feab7268c805aa jre1_5_0.tar.gz
OK. So you are getting bad downloads.

Second test, lets try this:
Manually download the extension using the same construct as in the code, that being:
wget < http://www.ibiblio.org/pub.....tar.gz >

Then check it with md5sum for the proper checksum.

If still not correct then try this test:
Change the protocol of wget from http to ftp and repeat the test.

Please let me know. Thanks,
Robert

Posted by caulktel on April 14 2005,23:38

Robert,

It worked fine and the checksum was correct when manully downloading it, so I'm not sure what the problem is. I used the myDSL button in emelFM to install it. I hope this helps somehow.

Posted by roberts on April 14 2005,23:51

Mystery solved. Please see post under dsl-1.0 bugs in Feedback section.