Trying to run DL6 Client in Ubuntu 12.10, it opened up a terminal window and closed very quickly after this. Nothing happens after that.
I’ve installed DL5 just as a reference, and it opens up a terminal as well… closes the terminal very quickly and then runs DL5.
Can you run one of the Deadline applications (like the Monitor) from a terminal? It should print out the error message to stdout, and you can copy and paste it here. If you’re running the monitor, just run the “deadlinemonitor” shell script from the Deadline bin folder.
Thanks!
It is a premission issue:
In root I can run DL6 in Ubuntu.
Apparently I can’t install as a normal user like in DL5. In DL5 I could install and run the Slave without any permission issues.
The next error appears when trying to install DL6:
“There has been an error.
This installer requires root privileges.
Please become superuser before executing the installer”
Why is there a difference in privileges for installing DL6 vs DL5 in Ubuntu Linux?
This is completely normal. The Deadline 6 installer requires root privileges, and there is no way around that because it has to create some system folders.
The Deadline 5 installer should require root privileges too. I just checked and confirmed this.
“This is completely normal. The Deadline 6 installer requires root privileges, and there is no way around that because it has to create some system folders. The Deadline 5 installer should require root privileges too. I just checked and confirmed this.”
I also wrote this answer in “Cross Platform: Ubuntu / WinXP / Win7 my conclusion”, don’t know if our answers where crossed at the time.
=> In DL5 I also got a warning that I didn’t have administrator privileges but then it installed anyway after conferming something like “Install anyway”
I did a bit of digging into the v5 installer, and it turns out the reason it’s optional is that the check for “root” wasn’t 100% reliable. This was due to a bug in the installer software we used for v5. We didn’t want a false positive preventing someone from running the installer.
We are using new installer software for v6 that works much better, so root privileges is not an option because we need to create system folders. Without root permissions, we wouldn’t be able to do that. You shouldn’t have to be logged in as root though. Using “sudo” on the installer should suffice.
Today I got some time again to install DL6 Beta 11, but somehow I can’t Install DL6 in Linux Ubuntu 12.10 Below is a copy past of the terminal
I’m new to Linux so I might do something wrong, but I can’t seem to find out what it is…
intelmac01@intelmac01:~$ cd Downloads
intelmac01@intelmac01:~/Downloads$ dir
Deadline_5_Install Deadline_6_Install Splashtop_Streamer_MAC_v2.2.0.2.dmg
intelmac01@intelmac01:~/Downloads$ cd Deadline_6_Install
intelmac01@intelmac01:~/Downloads/Deadline_6_Install$ dir
Deadline-6-linux-x64-installer.run
intelmac01@intelmac01:~/Downloads/Deadline_6_Install$ sudo apt-get install Deadline-6-linux-x64-installer.run
sudo: unable to resolve host intelmac01
[sudo] password for intelmac01:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
E: Unable to locate package Deadline-6-linux-x64-installer.run
E: Couldn't find any package by regex 'Deadline-6-linux-x64-installer.run'
intelmac01@intelmac01:~/Downloads/Deadline_6_Install$
You don’t need to use apt-get (that’s for installing packages using the system’s package manager). You just have to run this:
sudo ./Deadline-6-linux-x64-installer.runCheers,