[PLUG] File is there, but not there?

[Tomas Kuchta]

Try to give path to that executable file - such as ~/linbpq or ./linbpq or
full path

It that is not enough - perhaps it is a script with invalid executable
shell on its first line ...

Tomas

On Tue, Jan 28, 2020, 17:57 Stafford Rau <srau at rauhaus.org> wrote:

> You might just have an error in your download. This is what I got when I
> tried it:
>
> srau at rauhaus:~$ wget -nv
> http://www.cantab.net/users/john.wiseman/Downloads/Beta/linbpq -O linbpq
> 2020-01-28 14:54:16 URL:
> http://www.cantab.net/users/john.wiseman/Downloads/Beta/linbpq
> [3438660/3438660] -> "linbpq" [1]
> srau at rauhaus:~$ file linbpq
> linbpq: ELF 32-bit LSB shared object, Intel 80386, version 1 (SYSV),
> dynamically linked, interpreter /lib/ld-, for GNU/Linux 2.6.32,
> BuildID[sha1]=449e4c74b8b576fc06a041f5ee6aa1880384ccff, with debug_info,
> not stripped
> srau at rauhaus:~$ ldd linbpq
> linux-gate.so.1 (0xf7ef9000)
> librt.so.1 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/librt.so.1 (0xf7ab8000)
> libm.so.6 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libm.so.6 (0xf79b6000)
> libpthread.so.0 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libpthread.so.0 (0xf7997000)
> libSegFault.so => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libSegFault.so (0xf7992000)
> libc.so.6 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libc.so.6 (0xf77b6000)
> /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0xf7efb000)
> srau at rauhaus:~$ mv linbpq test-linbpq/
> srau at rauhaus:~$ cd test-linbpq/
> srau at rauhaus:~/test-linbpq$ chmod 755 linbpq
> srau at rauhaus:~/test-linbpq$ ./linbpq
> G8BPQ AX25 Packet Switch System Version 6.0.19.27 January 2020
> Copyright � 2001-2020 John Wiseman G8BPQ
> Current Directory is /home/srau/test-linbpq
>
> Configuration file Preprocessor.
> Could not open file /home/srau/test-linbpq/bpq32.cfg Error code 2
> Configuration File Error
> srau at rauhaus:~/test-linbpq$
>
> On Tue, Jan 28, 2020 at 2:12 PM Michael Barnes <barnmichael at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > On Tue, Jan 28, 2020 at 2:02 PM wes <plug at the-wes.com> wrote:
> >
> > > There is not actually an asterisk at the end of this file name; the -F
> > flag
> > > to ls presents this to help identify executable files.
> > >
> > > The "No such file" error likely originates from a shared library this
> > > particular binary is trying to call.
> > >
> > > try ldd linbpq
> > >
> > > -wes
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > Looks like Wes may be on to something here.
> >
> > michael at Desk4:~/ham_stuff/linbpq$ ldd linbpq
> > not a dynamic executable
> >
> > Not sure I understand what that means.  Here is the part of the install
> > script that created this file:
> >
> > mkdir linbpq
> > cd linbpq
> > wget -nv http://www.cantab.net/users/john.wiseman/Downloads/Beta/$LINBPQ
> > -O
> > linbpq
> > chmod +x linbpq
> >
> > For "everyone else" , this "just works". Once the script runs that
> installs
> > this file and associated config files, they say to run
> > ./linbpq
> > and the app runs, period.
> >
> > For me, not so much.
> >
> > Michael
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