Haiku R1 Alpha 2 Release Addendum

While the Haiku Project strives for quality in official releases including alpha and betas, there will always be the chance of an unnoticed issue prior to release. This page serves to inform you any notable issues with the release and how to resolve them.

Installer fails on libwebcore.so

Error Message: General System Error Reproduction: This seems to be caused through a certain combination of media and disc drives. During installation you may encounter a General System Error while copying libwebcore.so. Resolution: To remedy this you need to open the Terminal application and run the following command. It will temporarily replace the version of WebPositive on the CD. You should now be able to restart the Installer application.

  installoptionalpackage webpositive 

sftp requires libedit.so

Error Message: runtime_loader: Cannot open file libedit.so.0: No such file or directory Reproduction: When sftp is executed, it will fail to load. Resolution: The following commands will download and extract the needed dependencies.

  wget http://haiku-files.org/files/optional-packages/libedit-20100424-r1a2-x86-gcc2-2010-05-10.zip
  unzip -d /boot libedit-20100424-r1a2-x86-gcc2-2010-05-10.zip
  rm libedit-20100424-r1a2-x86-gcc2-2010-05-10.zip