Installers won't Install

[LilJoshu]

Tried from the esellerate server, also failed...
However, on a hunch, just now tried something.
Downloaded on my Windows side (since I dual boot) and got md5's that were just fine. Burnt them to CD , and went back over to Ubuntu, and they installed just fine.

They still apparently have other issues, but ones that are covered by other threads on this forum. More than likely it implies (at least in my mind) that something, somewhere, was actually re-writing the files in the sh'ing process, maybe a bad update from a local server on sh, or something.

Anyway, it narrows the problem down as not being hardware (otherwise it would have had problems windows side too), and also not the files themselves (unless somehow running sh on them causes them to rewrite to themselves, as they couldn't do that with the DVD)...
All the OSes I tried were Debian based, it may have something to do with that (since I tried both Sabayon and Ubuntu, with various architecture layouts). Or the error could have been a weird and obscure combination of something the files, but something about debian format, mixed with my specific hardware (AMD64 dual core, Nvidia chipset, Nvidia Geforce 9500, 1G ram)

So, although never did figure exactly what the problem is, I guess it's a moot point for me now. Although what it means on the developer's end, I can only fathom.

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Wait, you said it didn't have any problems on Xubuntu?....
I was using Ubuntu...
The main difference is yours is XFCE and mine is Gnome (which also Sabayon is).
Maybe it's an issue specifically with Debian Gnome distributions of the block of the ubuntu 9.04 version range? I dunno... just speculating... (since I got it to install, at this point my musing is largely in the hopes of shedding light to help future development and not self-interest, as I love it when developers make linux native versions of their games... one of the main reason I picked up Penumbra.)