Re: [ferret_users] Installing problem with FC9 on the laptop

Hi, Ryo!
Thanks very much for your helpful advice.
The problem was really due to the LANGUAGE. If it is in Chinese as I used before, the results are as follow:

README_23jan09
So, I set
setenv LANG C
at the top of the Finstall script. Then it worked OK and I successfully installed FERRET on my laptop.
I also tried another method to solve this problem that I log in FC9 system with LANGUAGE--English. FERRET installation worked OK, too.
Thank you again!

On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 11:28 AM, Ryo Furue <furue@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hi Laura and Ferret developers,

| I am trying to install FERRET on my laptop. The system is Fedoral
| Core 9. I executed Finstall, chose 1 and give the path of
| "FER_DIR". However, it stopped after I gave the path of
| fer_executables.tar.Z, and showed:
|
| Moving to usr/local/ferret/bin...
| README_`/bin/date +'%d%h%y'|tr '[A-Z]' '[a-z]'`: Ambiguous

I guess this error is from

echo "FERRET executables installed this date by $user" \
>! README_`/bin/date +'%d%h%y'|tr '[A-Z]' '[a-z]'`

of Finstall. The cause of the error may that your "date" command
returns a string that contains white spaces or some non-ASCII
characters.

For example,

$ csh
% echo hello > `echo my file`
`echo my file`: Ambiguous.
% echo hello > `echo my-file`
% echo hello > README_`/bin/date +'%d %h%y'|tr '[A-Z]' '[a-z]'`
README_`/bin/date +'%d %h%y'|tr '[A-Z]' '[a-z]'`: Ambiguous.
%

Notice that I've deliberately inserted a white space between %d and %h.

Laura, I'm wondering if you could type this and report what's printed?

% echo README_`/bin/date +'%d%h%y'|tr '[A-Z]' '[a-z]'`
% env | grep LC_
% env | grep LANG
% env | grep LOCALE

What about this?

% setenv LANG C
% echo README_`/bin/date +'%d%h%y'|tr '[A-Z]' '[a-z]'`

Ferret developers, the output of the "date" command depends on
locale. So, it's safe to set

setenv LANG C

at the top of a shell script.

Cheers,
Ryo