Anyone running the Linux version of Woopra?

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Anyone running the Linux version of Woopra?

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Started 2 months ago by txurlo
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Carlitos
Member

Hello there.

Is anybody running the Linux version of Woopra? I tried on my Kubuntu laptop, and it didn't work. I know that "it does not work" means nothing to you without error messages, detailed configuration, Java version, etc., but I just wondered if anybody got it running, and whether she found any pitfalls, issues, anything! My laptop is not my main machine, but it'd be nice to run Woopra there!.

A Linux installation guide would be quite nice, too ;-)

Posted 2 months ago #
Elie El Khoury
King of blues

Thanks for noting that.

I have it running on Ubuntu. I want you to try to install it from Shell as root.

Posted 2 months ago #
Thomas
Member

I'm running it on Ubuntu (Hardy Heron) as well, and it works fine.

As far as I recall I just downloaded the shell and ran 'sh woopra_unix.sh' (without the ') in the terminal.

Posted 2 months ago #
Carlitos
Member

OK, at least now I know I tried it correctly :-)

I'll try again and get back to you with the details later this week!

Posted 2 months ago #
rellik
Member

I just downloaded the latest linux release, and am getting the following error. I tried running as root with identical results. There is a comment about downloading the file in binary mode, but I'm assuming firefox automatically sets the transfer mode correctly...

$ sh woopra_unix.sh

gzip: sfx_archive.tar.gz: not in gzip format

I am sorry, but the installer file seems to be corrupted.
If you downloaded that file please try it again. If you
transfer that file with ftp please make sure that you are
using binary mode.

Posted 2 months ago #
James
Member

I am having the same problem as rellik

Posted 2 months ago #
Thomas
Member

I'm having the same problem with the new version...

Posted 2 months ago #
tcar
Member

I have the same problem as rellik as well.

Posted 2 months ago #
tojulius
Member

same here

Posted 2 months ago #
James
Member

I wrote tech support yesterday but haven't heard back. Maybe if everyone writes in we'll get this fixed.

Posted 2 months ago #
publicenergy
Member

I can't install it either - the file just looks a bit funny and it even tells me permission denied when I try it as root - very strange.

Posted 2 months ago #
NDC
Member

How do you install it, When ever i try i get permission denied....

Posted 2 months ago #
maco
Member

The offset for tail is wrong. And even when you correct it, it's corrupted anyway. install4j.class is missing as well.

Posted 2 months ago #
homechicken
Member

Maco's right, doesn't look like there's anything we can do until they fix this problem.

Posted 2 months ago #
James
Member

It would be nice to have an ETA.

Posted 2 months ago #
David Knighton
Member

Ditto on the corrupt file issue. Hopefully more posts will lead to a quicker fix! :)

Posted 2 months ago #
Elie El Khoury
King of blues

Guys, delete .install4j from your home directory then run the installer from shell as root.

The installed can be found on http://static.woopra.com/woopra_unix.sh

That should solve the problem.

Posted 2 months ago #
David Knighton
Member

No luck with that solution, fusion. There is nothing by that name in my home directory.

Posted 2 months ago #
knoxjon
Member

Man, I was going nuts trying to figure this out. Thank goodness it's not me.

Posted 2 months ago #
James
Member

No luck for me either fusion. There is no .install4j in my home directory or anywhere else on my system.

Posted 2 months ago #
jshbbe
Member

Same problem here. I would really like to give this a try.

Posted 2 months ago #
Shawn
Member

Adding a "me too" to this post. After several downloads of woopra_unix.sh I have been receiving the same error message as rellik.

Posted 2 months ago #
ussjoin
Member

Me as well; both on Linux and OS X, just for good measure (I thought I'd try it with SoyLatte).

Posted 2 months ago #
brunoalves
Member

Try this:

wget http://static.woopra.com/woopra_unix.sh
sudo su
chmod +x woopra_unix.sh
sh woopra_unix.sh

I was having the same problems and after doing this it's working nicely.

Posted 2 months ago #
nikkiana
Member

Yet another me too.

Posted 2 months ago #
James
Member

Bruno,

Still getting

gzip: sfx_archive.tar.gz: not in gzip format

I am sorry, but the installer file seems to be corrupted.
If you downloaded that file please try it again. If you
transfer that file with ftp please make sure that you are
using binary mode.

Posted 2 months ago #
brunoalves
Member

Have you used wget to get the file?

I was having exactly the same problem and it's working now.

Probably, the browser corrupts the instalation file.

Try downloading with wget instead of the browser.

Posted 2 months ago #
James
Member

I did bruno. Could it be something in ubuntu?

Posted 2 months ago #
brunoalves
Member

I'm using Ubuntu 8.04, fresh install (just installed development applications).

wget should download it as application/octetstream

Posted 2 months ago #
Ben
Member

Really frustrating - it works so well on my XP PC.

ben@XXX:~$ wget http://static.woopra.com/woopra_unix.sh
--08:08:30-- http://static.woopra.com/woopra_unix.sh
=> `woopra_unix.sh.1'
Resolving static.woopra.com... 65.127.196.84
Connecting to static.woopra.com|65.127.196.84|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 3,664,714 (3.5M) [application/octet-stream]

100%[====================================>] 3,664,714 240.89K/s ETA 00:00

08:08:51 (198.76 KB/s) - `woopra_unix.sh.1' saved [3664714/3664714]

ben@XXX:~$ sudo su
root@XXX:/home/ben# chmod +x woopra_unix.sh
root@XXX:/home/ben# sh woopra_unix.sh

gzip: sfx_archive.tar.gz: not in gzip format

I am sorry, but the installer file seems to be corrupted.
If you downloaded that file please try it again. If you
transfer that file with ftp please make sure that you are
using binary mode.
root@XXX:/home/ben#

(Ubuntu 8.04)

Posted 2 months ago #