Novell ships Groupwise Messenger for Linux clients only for SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop. If you apply this diff to the binary nvlmsgr.bin, it will permit it to be installed on Fedora Core 11 too:
— nvlsmgr.bin.head 2009-11-12 15:29:05.000000000 -0500
+++ nvlsmgr.bin.fc11.head 2009-11-12 15:29:13.000000000 -0500
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@
# Extract the tarball
echo -n “Extracting files, please wait…”
mkdir -p $TMP_DIR
-tail +$SKIP $0 | tar xz -C $TMP_DIR
+tail –lines=+$SKIP $0 | tar xz -C $TMP_DIR# Run the install
if [ -d ${TMP_DIR}/nmclient ] ; then
