ghostman.sh install symlinks are malformed and tar contents are missing on aarch64 platform

[skepticalshoe]

bash bin/ghostman.sh install for the aarch64 platform results in broken links for the binaries.

cd
# force re-install 
rm -r ~/ghostcore

bash bin/ghostman.sh install
 --> Downloading https://github.com/ghost-coin/ghost-core/releases/download/v0.21.1.10/ghost-0.21.1.10-aarch64-linux-gnu.tar.gz...  done!
 --> Unpacking ghost-0.21.1.10-aarch64-linux-gnu.tar.gz... tar: Substituting `.' for empty member name
 done!
mv: cannot stat 'ghost-0.21.1.10/bin/ghostd': No such file or directory
mv: cannot stat 'ghost-0.21.1.10/bin/ghost-cli': No such file or directory
mv: cannot stat 'ghost-0.21.1.10/bin/ghost-wallet': No such file or directory

The results in sym links fail because they point to a non existent file location.

ls ~/ghostcore/
ghost-0.21.1.10-aarch64-linux-gnu.tar.gz              ghost-cli  ghost-wallet
ghost-0.21.1.10-aarch64-linux-gnu.tar.gz.DIGESTS.txt  ghostd

ls -l ~/ghostcore/ shows broken links links:
ghost-cli -> ghost-cli-0.21.1.10
ghostd -> ghostd-0.21.1.10
ghost-wallet -> ghost-wallet-0.21.1.10

Workaround:

tar -xvf ~/ghostcore/ghost-0.21.1.10-aarch64-linux-gnu.tar.gz -C ~/ghostcore
mv ~/ghostcore/ghost-0.21.1.10/* ~/ghostcore/
#(or fix the sym links) 

[bleach86]

this has been deprecated in favor of https://github.com/ghost-coin/GhostVault

[skepticalshoe]

Ok - I was working on a cold staking node and the guide references ghostman. (see https://ghostbymcafee.medium.com/vps-cold-staking-setup-612d6f63242b )

I fixed the install script by editing the ARM if statement. The arm binaries do not contain a "bin" subdirectory.

ghostman/lib/functions.sh starting line 486

    # place it ---------------------------------------------------------------

    echo "LATEST_VERSION = $LATEST_VERSION"  
    if [ $ARM != 1 ];then
        mv "ghost-$LATEST_VERSION/bin/ghostd" "ghostd-$LATEST_VERSION"
        mv "ghost-$LATEST_VERSION/bin/ghost-cli" "ghost-cli-$LATEST_VERSION"
        mv "ghost-$LATEST_VERSION/bin/ghost-wallet" "ghost-wallet-$LATEST_VERSION"
        mv "ghost-$LATEST_VERSION/bin/ghost-qt" "ghost-qt-$LATEST_VERSION"
    else
        mv "ghost-$LATEST_VERSION/ghostd" "ghostd-$LATEST_VERSION"
        mv "ghost-$LATEST_VERSION/ghost-cli" "ghost-cli-$LATEST_VERSION"
        mv "ghost-$LATEST_VERSION/ghost-wallet" "ghost-wallet-$LATEST_VERSION"
        mv "ghost-$LATEST_VERSION/ghost-qt" "ghost-qt-$LATEST_VERSION"
    fi

[skepticalshoe]

I suggest updating the link from https://www.ghostbyjohnmcafee.com/faq/staking that points to the stale medium article (https://ghostbymcafee.medium.com/vps-cold-staking-setup-612d6f63242b ). Then we can close this one out.

[bleach86]

please see https://ghostveterans.com/vps for a guide

Also, thank you for pointing out the link, it will be fixed shortly