On 06 November 2007, Arnaud Gomes-do-Vale Arnaud.Gomes at ircam.fr wrote: Tue Nov 6 21:44:19 UTC 2007 <snip>
After ruling out the obvious (is /opt full?), check your logs (most probably dmesg and/or /var/log/messages).
Now a wild guess: what file system are you using for /opt? Does it support symlinks?
JACKPOT! Your "wild guess" was *dead* on! Google is installing into /opt I'd forgotten that I have /opt as FAT32, to safely move files between NTFS and ext3. This is a dual boot, WinXP and CentOS 5 box.
Thank you! I will install Picasa on my wife's box, when she's not using it.
Lanny Marcus wrote:
JACKPOT! Your "wild guess" was *dead* on! Google is installing into /opt I'd forgotten that I have /opt as FAT32, to safely move files between NTFS and ext3. This is a dual boot, WinXP and CentOS 5 box.
Use something else for that, not /opt. Just make up some directory name, unmount /opt, re-mount the FAT32 partition under the new directory, and then leave /opt alone.
Florin Andrei wrote:
Lanny Marcus wrote:
JACKPOT! Your "wild guess" was *dead* on! Google is installing into /opt I'd forgotten that I have /opt as FAT32, to safely move files between NTFS and ext3. This is a dual boot, WinXP and CentOS 5 box.
Use something else for that, not /opt. Just make up some directory name, unmount /opt, re-mount the FAT32 partition under the new directory, and then leave /opt alone.
indeed. in some filename/directory standard or another who's name escapes me, /opt is the standard place to install non-core distribution software packages ... linux people often use /usr/local for this, but /usr/local is intended for site specific stuff, which software packages really aren't.
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