palemoon installer broken? Topic is solved

[Cheerful Charlie]

I am running Mageia 5.0. I have just downloaded the Linux installer, made sure user owned it (not root) chmodded (chmod 777 pminstaller.sh) it so it was able to run, but it doesn't work. Ls -l shows permissions are correct. I downloaded it again and again, no joy. So I ran sha256sum on it and the numbers in no way agree with the sha256 sum on the download page. I think the installer went tits up and is corrupted or some such. Somebody needs to offer this pminstaller.sh some loving care. Possibly some CPR.

Cheerful Charlie

[trava90]

What about it is not working? Please be more specific.

As for the checksum, I just downloaded a fresh copy from the download page and sha256sum'd it and the checksum does indeed match exactly what is posted on the page. Did you download it directly from us or some other site?

[Cheerful Charlie]

No, I have downloaded it from the Pale Moon official site. I have now downloaded several times, and did at last attempt get a good sha256sum check.
Again, I open it as a user, chowned it and chmodded it so it should run. Again, it does not. It very well should run.

Here is my latest checksum
26bb73c7567674edcd554cb60df2c752e70c7878cc13aaa57d6a1cc4f1c5809a pminstaller-0.2.2.tar.bz2

Here is the checksum from the Pale Moon website
26bb73c7567674edcd554cb60df2c752e70c7878cc13aaa57d6a1cc4f1c5809a

Here is my ls -l listing.
-rwxrwxrwx 1 XXX XXX 97718 Mar 11 19:15 pminstaller.sh*

Still isn't working. Doesn't work from a root either.

Here is the error message
bash: pminstaller.sh: command not found

Tomorrow, I may try to write a small script to see if Bash is working right. I suspect it does because I can boot up with no problem and that would not be possible if Bash couldn't run a shell script.

At this point, I am mystified.

I was able to download the tar ball and extract it and from there run Pale Moon. But the pminstaller,sh failure bugs me.

[Cheerful Charlie]

OK, I just shut down the system and rebooted from scratch. Now things seems to want to work, though i have to set up the sudo system to continue. All seems to have been some sort of odd ball glitch.

[Cheerful Charlie]

Finally, Pale moon installed. There seems to have been some problem because the installer noted a failed Pale Moon attempted install that it allowed me to delete, and then properly installed. Some weird fluke or the other. Since I had at least one download that failed the sha256 sum, I now suspect a bad download that jammed things up. Hooray!

[loxodont]

Just for the information: I updated today on xubuntu 16.04 with pminstaller 0.22 and the download process itself was incredibly slow, took around 20-30 mins.

[lightning slinger]

........ I open it as a user, chowned it and chmodded it so it should run.....

Here is my ls -l listing.
-rwxrwxrwx 1 XXX XXX 97718 Mar 11 19:15 pminstaller.sh*

No sure why you thought it necessary to change permissions of the pminstaller script. The default permissions of 755

-rwxr-xr-x 1 XXX XXX 97718 Apr 8 10:02 pminstaller.sh (XXX being username)

are adequate enough to run the script!

By chmod 777 you have only allowed write permissions for Group and Others, you as owner have not changed permissions, you still have Read, Write, Execute access!

FYI.@loxodont. Updated this Xubuntu 14.04 box yesterday and downloading was running fine, less than 30 sec open pminstaller to close!