md5check() {

   MD5_TMP=`$GREP $1 ${MD5FILE}`
   BINDESC=`echo $MD5_TMP | awk '{print $2}'`

   echo -n "  Testing $1 for corruption... "
   if [ ! -z "$MD5SUM" ]; then

      if [ ! -z "$MD5_TMP" ]; then
         echo "$MD5_TMP" | awk '{print $1, "", $2}' | $MD5SUM -c
      fi
   fi

   if [ ! -z "$MD5_TMP" ]; then
      $GUNZIP -t $1 &>/dev/null
      if [ $? -eq 1 ]; then
         echo "  MD5 check failed, corrupt!"
      else
         echo -n "  MD5 check passed.. "
      fi
   fi

   echo -n "unpacking.. "
   $TAR zxvf $1 -C $WORKDIR &>/dev/null
   echo "done!"
}

wherebe() {
   echo -n "Checking for $2..."

   test -x $2 && export "$1"="$2"
   test -x /bin/$2 && export "$1"="/bin/$2"
   test -x /sbin/$2 && export "$1"="/sbin/$2"
   test -x /usr/bin/$2 && export "$1"="/usr/bin/$2"
   test -x /usr/sbin/$2 && export "$1"="/usr/sbin/$2"
   test -x /usr/local/bin/$2 && export "$1"="/usr/local/bin/$2"
   test -x /usr/local/sbin/$2 && export "$1"="/usr/local/sbin/$2"
   test -x $LOCAL_PATH/bin/$2 && export "$1"="$LOCAL_PATH/bin/$2"

   if [ `echo echo '$'$1'' |  /bin/sh` ]; then
      echo "`echo echo '$'$1'' |  /bin/sh`"
   else
      echo " FAILED"
      if [ $3 ]; then
         echo " -required external resourced missing"
         exit 1
      else
         echo
      fi
      exit
   fi
}

pause() {
   COUNT=$1
   for i in `seq 0 $COUNT`; do
      sleep 1;
      echo -n ".";
   done;
   echo ""
}