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Maximalminimalist

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Registered: 2009-09-20

Posts: 112

checksum wrong in Mathematica 8

Hi everybody!

I'd like to use Mathematica 8 on my x86_64 desktop but the installation goes wrong from the first step:

./Mathematica_8.0.1_LINUX.sh                            
Mathematica Secured 8.0.1 for LINUX Installer Archive

Verifying archive integrity. 
Error in MD5 checksums: 3a96147d8e54e57fcec71d368d2dffb2 is different from cddb9a9e17836825bd5ae1df5aba47df

Fortunately it works on my i686 laptop. So I tried to install it with schroot and also chroot on my x86_64 chrooting to my small i686 system inside. But none of them worked and I also had the same checksum (as outside chroot).

I tried many, many times to download it again from the webpage of the university but the checksum is always different. The checksum has also already been wrong on the x86_64 while for the i686 the same copy of the shell-script would have worked.

I think there must be something wrong with the checksum and the setup of my desktop. The problem is that the shell-script is quite huge (>1GB) so it's hard for me to look for what could not work in the shell-script and my arch machine. (The other reason is that my coding skills are pretty low.)

I hope that somebody can give me a hint because the support for Arch Linux at my university is lacking. (Of course I don't expect this. ;-) )

Best regards,

maxmin

Beginning of the script:

     1 #!/bin/sh
     2 # This script was generated using Makeself 2.1.1
     3 CRCsum="2891462810"
     4 MD5="cddb9a9e17836825bd5ae1df5aba47df"
     5 TMPROOT=${TMPDIR:=/tmp}
     6 
     7 # DEC-AXP cksum/md5sum handling - we need to set compatibility flags
     8 uname=`uname`
     9 if [ $uname = "OSF1" ]; then
    10     CMD_ENV=xpg4
    11     export CMD_ENV
    12 fi
    13 
    14 label="Mathematica Secured 8.0.1 for LINUX Installer Archive"
    15 script="Unix/Installer/MathInstaller"
    16 scriptargs=""
    17 targetdir=".23652"
    18 filesizes="1258874880"
    19 keep=n
    20 temp=n
    21 
    22 
    23 if test "$temp" = n; then
    24   targetdir=.$$
    25 fi
    26 
    27 print_cmd_arg=""
    28 if type printf > /dev/null; then
    29     print_cmd="printf"
    30 elif test -x /usr/ucb/echo; then
    31     print_cmd="/usr/ucb/echo"
    32 else
    33     print_cmd="echo"
    34 fi
    35 
    36 MS_Printf()
    37 {
    38     $print_cmd $print_cmd_arg "$1"
    39 }
    40 
    41 MS_Progress()
    42 {
    43     while read a; do
    44     MS_Printf .
    45     done
    46 }
    47 
    48 MS_dd()
    49 {
    50     blocks=`expr $3 / 1024`
    51     bytes=`expr $3 % 1024`
    52     dd if="$1" ibs=$2 skip=1 obs=1024 conv=sync 2> /dev/null | \
    53     { test $blocks -gt 0 && dd ibs=1024 obs=1024 count=$blocks ; \
    54       test $bytes  -gt 0 && dd ibs=1 obs=1024 count=$bytes ; } 2> /dev/null
    55 }
    56 
    57 MS_Help()
    58 {
    59     cat << EOH >&2
    60 Makeself version 2.1.1
    61  1) Getting help or info about $0 :
    62   $0 --help   Print this message
    63   $0 --info   Print embedded info : title, default target directory, embedded script ...
    64   $0 --lsm    Print embedded lsm entry (or no LSM)
    65   $0 --list   Print the list of files in the archive
    66   $0 --check  Checks integrity of the archive
    67 
    68  2) Running $0 :
    69   $0 [options] [--] [additional arguments to embedded script]
    70   with following options (in that order)
    71   --confirm             Ask before running embedded script
    72   --keep                Do not erase target directory after running
    73       the embedded script
    74   --nox11               Do not spawn an xterm
    75   --nochown             Do not give the extracted files to the current user
    76   --target NewDirectory Extract in NewDirectory
    77   --                    Following arguments will be passed to the embedded script
    78 EOH
    79 }
    80 
    81 MS_Check()
    82 {
    83     OLD_PATH=$PATH
    84     PATH=${GUESS_MD5_PATH:-"$OLD_PATH:/bin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/usr/local/ssl/bin:/usr/local/bin:/opt/openssl/bin"}
    85     MD5_PATH=`which md5sum 2>/dev/null || type md5sum 2>/dev/null`
    86     MD5_PATH=${MD5_PATH:-`which md5 2>/dev/null || type md5 2>/dev/null`}
    87     PATH=$OLD_PATH
    88     MS_Printf "Verifying archive integrity. \n"
    89     offset=`head -n 387 "$1" | wc -c | tr -d " "`
    90     verbose=$2
    91     i=1
    92     for s in $filesizes
    93     do
    94   crc=`echo $CRCsum | cut -d" " -f$i`
    95   if test -x "$MD5_PATH"; then
    96       md5=`echo $MD5 | cut -d" " -f$i`
    97       if test $md5 = "00000000000000000000000000000000"; then
    98     test x$verbose = xy && echo " $1 does not contain an embedded MD5 checksum." >&2
    99       else
   100     md5sum=`MS_dd "$1" $offset $s | "$MD5_PATH" | cut -b-32`;
   101     if test "$md5sum" != "$md5"; then
   102         echo "Error in MD5 checksums: $md5sum is different from $md5" >&2
   103         cd "$location"; /bin/rm -rf "$tmpdir"
   104         exit 2
   105     else
   106         test x$verbose = xy && MS_Printf " MD5 checksums are OK." >&2
   107     fi
   108     crc="0000000000"; verbose=n
   109       fi
   110   fi
   111   if test $crc = "0000000000"; then
   112       test x$verbose = xy && echo " $1 does not contain a CRC checksum." >&2
   113   else
   114       sum1=`MS_dd "$1" $offset $s | cksum | awk '{print $1}'`
   115       if test "$sum1" = "$crc"; then
   116     test x$verbose = xy && MS_Printf " CRC checksums are OK." >&2
   117       else
   118     echo "Error in checksums: $sum1 is different from $crc"
   119     cd "$location"; /bin/rm -rf "$tmpdir"
   120     exit 2;
   121       fi
   122   fi
   123   i=`expr $i + 1`
   124   offset=`expr $offset + $s`
   125     done
   126 }
   127 

doubleslash

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Registered: 2011-08-16

Posts: 80

Re: checksum wrong in Mathematica 8

Did you ever figure out how to make it work? I'm on the same boat. I'm trying to install Mathematica on a laptop with 64 bit CPU. The checksum is wrong.Thanks.

Proofrific

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Registered: 2008-01-05

Posts: 215

Re: checksum wrong in Mathematica 8

Not sure about Mathematica 8, but 7.0.1 works on my 64-bit system.

karol

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Registered: 2009-05-06

Posts: 25,440

Re: checksum wrong in Mathematica 8

Please report these issues on the AUR page https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=47077 , as doubleslash did.

Last edited by karol (2011-09-17 15:16:59)

Unblessed_Germ

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From: US

Registered: 2011-05-18

Posts: 10

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Re: checksum wrong in Mathematica 8

Dido on mathematica 7 in 64bit, and I think I had mathematica 6 working in 64bit before I switched.

matse

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Registered: 2011-04-27

Posts: 299

Re: checksum wrong in Mathematica 8

Mathematica 8.0.1 works fine here on Arch x64. Maybe the image that your university provides is corrupt. Maybe you could try to change line 4 in "Mathematica_8.0.1_LINUX.sh" to the MD5 sum that is computed in your version of mathematica - just to see if it installs then.
Greetings
matse