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Crossover 12 install fails on RHEL/CentOS 5, now can't remove it

[I ran into this problem last week, and so am posting my experience in case someone else has the same issue]

Crossover 12 is not supported on RHEL/CentOS 5!!. Hopefully you're reading this before attempting an install. Crossover 11.3.0 is the last version of the product that will install and run successfully on RHEL/CentOS 5.

If you've installed Crossover 12 on RHEL 5, you'll see an error message like this:

# rpm -ivh crossover-12.0.0-1.i386.rpm
Preparing...                ########################################### [100%]
   1:crossover              ########################################### [100%]
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/opt/cxoffice/bin/cxtie", line 81, in ?
    import cxutils
  File "/opt/cxoffice/lib/python/cxutils.py", line 487
    a = a.split('.') if a else ()
                      ^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax
error: %post(crossover-12.0.0-1.i386) scriptlet failed, exit status 1

Note that Crossover actually is installed after this, but it won't work, at all. So, a reasonable person would try to remove Crossover, but that will fail:

# /opt/cxoffice/bin/cxuninstall
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/opt/cxoffice/bin/cxmessage", line 81, in ?
    import cxutils
  File "/opt/cxoffice/lib/python/cxutils.py", line 487
    a = a.split('.') if a else ()
                      ^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax
cxuninstall:warning: cxmessage died. You may want to try 'cxuninstall --help' for alternatives

Next, I tried using yum to remove it

# yum remove crossover.i386

Yum reports that this succeeds, though I still got the "import cxutils" error. However, yum is lying - Crossover is still installed, as I see from checking my /opt/cxoffice directory.

To finally get it of it, I completely deleted my Crossover directory, manually:

# rm -rf /opt/cxoffice

But even after doing that, an install of Crossover 11 will fail:

# rpm -ivh crossover-11.3.0-1.i386.rpm

file /opt/cxoffice/share/wine/wine.inf from install of crossover-11.3.0-1.i386
conflicts with file from package crossover-12.0.0-1.i386 

To get out of this pickle I needed to create the "/opt/cxoffice/bin/cxtie" file that the transaction check is looking for.

# mkdir /opt/cxoffice/

# mkdir /opt/cxoffice/bin/

# touch /opt/cxoffice/bin/cxtie

make that file executable:

# chmod 755 /opt/cxoffice/bin/cxtie

and then run the removal:

# rpm -e crossover.i386

That finally succeeded without error, and I was then able to install Crossover 11.3.0 on my RHEL 5 machine.

Hi!

I'm not really sure I understand your post, the title references a problem with RHEL/CentOS 6 but the post itself references RHEL/CentOS 5, which is it? Also, I installed and uninstalled Crossover 12.0 in RHEL 6 with no problem (if that helps in any way).

Regards.

Well that's embarassing - I made a mistake in writing the title of the post. I've changed it now, this issue is indeed regarding RHEL/CentOS 5, only.

I just want to confirm that I see the same error message while installing (on SL5):

[mvl@sap-alice1 downloads]$ ./install-crossover-12.1.2.bin
upgrade
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/home/mvl/cxoffice/bin/cxwait", line 81, in ?
import cxutils
File "/home/mvl/cxoffice/lib/python/cxutils.py", line 487
a = a.split('.') if a else ()
^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax

[mvl@sap-alice1 downloads]$ python -V
Python 2.4.3

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