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[IDV #NSO-132512]: IDV install fails on Linux

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  • Subject: [IDV #NSO-132512]: IDV install fails on Linux
  • Date: Thu, 25 May 2017 15:54:32 -0600
Hi Brian,

I think something just got borked when you tried to download the installer. It
looks like you downloaded a web page instead of the actual installer which is
~160MB. Can you try again?

Best,

Unidata IDV Support


> [bmapes@old ~]$ sudo bash idv_5_4_linux64_installer.sh
> idv_5_4_linux64_installer.sh: line 8: syntax error near unexpected token 
> `newline'
> idv_5_4_linux64_installer.sh: line 8: `<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD 
> HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd";>'
> 
> 
> from 
> www.unidata.ucar.edu/software/idv/5_4/docs/userguide/Starting.html<http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/software/idv/5_4/docs/userguide/Starting.html>
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Ticket Details
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Ticket ID: NSO-132512
Department: Support IDV
Priority: Normal
Status: Closed
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