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Getting "Installation failed" on updates, even on success
Hi, I'm working on an add-on which is returning a generic "Failed to install addon" (ADDON_INST_FAIL) error message when I install it on top of an existing installation (update). At the same time I...
mherger wrote: How would I unpack an addon so I could run the script manually? It's not a simple tarball, is it?
#!/bin/bash
ARCH=`uname -m`
if [ "${ARCH}" == "padre" ]; then
BSIZE=512
else
BSIZE=16384
fi
if [ -f $1 ]; then
TFIL=`basename $1 .bin`
TFIL="${TFIL}.tar"
dd if=$1 of=${TFIL} bs=${BSIZE} skip=1
else
echo "Add-on file doesn't exist"
fi
From the top of my head so there may be syntax errors in there ;)
-Stefan
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