Linux(Ubuntu) + RAVE iso - YMMV...

TaDa said:

Extract the iso, rename the ';1' files, chmod the exe files and away you go!

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Chr1s said:

I'm pretty sure that's all you needed to say

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TaDa said:

I was struggling to get RAVE CDs/ISOs working on my linux pc so I surfed the net but all I found was other people asking the same question.

I worked a little harder and stumbled across a solution which I spelled out in my post - which was meant to be a 'howto'

So, I get it - I posted this in the wrong place

This is Land Rover related - since RAVE covers all landrovers - which forum should it go in?

Obviously "General Land Rover Chat" is not the right place

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TaDa said:

I'm presuming that you have Linux, some linux skills and have the "Wine" software installed...

I found a rave ISO and tried it on my Linux (Ubuntu 12.04) pc...

First I mounted it with the "Archive Mounter" this gave me a new "device" but when I right-clicked on RAVE.exe and chose to open it with Wine I got "permission denied".

I played around for a while but discovered that all the PDFs were password locked.

So I went back to the iso file and extracted it to a directory using "Archive Manager".

This seemed to extract all the files twice (!!) - the second one would have a ';1' suffix - worryingly the correct named files were zero bytes.

I decided that the ';1' files were the correct ones so thought it best to rename them 'over' their zero byte sized counterparts.

So I ran this command in the extracted parent dir:

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find . -name '*;1*' | while read i; do j=$(echo $i | sed -e 's/;1//'); echo $i; mv "$i" "$j"; done

I tried Wine on the RAVE.exe again - but got permission denied again - I then realised that the executables were mounted without execute permission so I ran this command:

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find . -name '*.exe*' | while read i; do echo $i; chmod 755 "$i"; done

I then tried Wine/RAVE.exe againand it worked a treat - Hoorah!

I surmise that when the ISO is mounted (yes I realise this sounds dodgy) it mounts it for Windows.
Since Windows identifies executables by their .exe extension they do not need any exe permissions. Unless you can think of a way of mounting the iso as a writeable disc and change the permissions on there, your're going to have to extract it like I did.

I still don't fully understand the ";1" suffix - perhaps it is something weird with the underlying file system of the iso (I believe that NTFS had some weird hidden/parallel file functionality) - its difficult to google for ';1'

So, there you have it, extract the iso, rename the ';1' files, chmod the exe files and away you go!

I hope that helps

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Fingle said:

I struggle to get RAVE working properly on my windows machine (apart from it being a random collection of PDFs)

I do use Ubuntu, but havent tried it on there.
Would be good to get it useable on an Android Tablet tho...for use on the drive etc

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cartoonhead said:

I find it easier just to run a windows VM under linux than use wine

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TaDa said:

Does anyone know the rave converter file called freerave_1.36.rar?

Allegedly it has the power to convert the locked pdf files to unlocked pdf files.

If this really exists and works it would surely allow any Android device to read the files.

I fear it was vapourware.

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