Coldfusion install in Linux VMWare session

Question

Has anyone had a successful install of coldfusion mx7.0.1 in
a linux vmware session? I found an issue listed on this site for
coldfusion installed in a windows vmware session. I tried the work
around using a silent install and still had installation issues.
(
http://www.macromedia.com/cfusion/knowledgebase/index.cfm?event=view&id=KC.f7447c40&extid=f7447c40&dialogID=117420173&iterationID=1&sessionID=4830838986d87c681272&stateID=1+0+117394817&mode=advanced)

(do a find for VMWARE)

I'm aware of the C++ compatibility issues, and I know I have
the additional libraries installed. (I don't think that's the issue
for this installation anyway)

I get the error listed in the install log file stating:
"/tmp/0124.tmp/ant_bin_dir.zip
Status: ERROR
Additional Notes: ERROR - Problems occured wit the expander
of Z_/installers/CustomCode/includes/ant_bin_dir.zip's type.It
said: error in opening zip file"

I've got zip and unzip in the path and callable. There's a
lot more errors afterwards, but I think it's because the files are
missing because of the zip file. Any ideas?

Oh, I also tried to download this file 3 different times. I
had an original install file that I used before with no issues. I
also downloaded it two more times just to make sure that I didn't
have a corrupted file.

(Edit)

I made the application save the temp directory so I could see
what it was working with. I went through unzipping files that I
could find and found that Resource1.zip has issues.

"End-ofcentral-directory signature not found. Either this
file is not a zipfile, or it constitutes one disk of a multi-part
archive. In the latter case te central directory and zipfile
comment will be found on the last disk(s) of this archive.
unzip: cannot find zipfile directory in one of Resource1.zip
or Resource1.zip.zip and cannot find Resource1.zip.zip, period."

Perhaps its an issue with this file in the installer?

Anonymous · Accepted Answer

Ok, I played around with it some more but I thought I'd document it here for future reference if someone else has the same issue.

I downloaded the coldfusion linux install many times.

I"m setting up this notebook so I can program while not even attached to the network. I had purchased a copy of CF7 a while back and downloaded the file.

I'm thinking the "developer" download from the adobe(macromedia) download section may be bad. Either that, or downloading it 4 times to this computer all failed in the process.

I remembered that I still had the coldfusion linux install file on my webserver so I downloaded the file to my vmware notebook session using sftp.

I should also mention that the md5 sums did NOT match the ones listed in the download section. In fact, I could not get one to match at all. I did not do a sum on the first two downloads so I don't know if they matched or not.

Anyway, I knew that the cold fusion install file on my web server did work, so I copied that over and ran the install using the silent install. I'm not sure if it would work with the normal install or not; I didn't try.

So, if you run into this error, it's probably the download. Try downloading from the trial the other section (can't remember what its called). You can install either of those in developer mode as well.

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