It tells me it is not a directory, that is why I then tried running the file. Glenn
----- Original Message ----- From: "Jude DaShiell" <jdash...@panix.com> To: "K0LNY_Glenn" <glenn@ervin.email>; "D.J.J. Ring, Jr." <n...@arrl.net>; <debian-accessibility@lists.debian.org> Sent: Saturday, March 11, 2023 1:47 PM Subject: Re: executable trouble You want to git clone that package then get into the nano-vnaclone directory it's an actual directory. read requirements.txt and install what you can in that file. Then try make deb in that directory to make a debian package. I have no idea if this will work so make deb 2>&1 |tee make.log may be a better choice. Jude <jdashiel at panix dot com> "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author, 1940) . On Sat, 11 Mar 2023, Jude DaShiell wrote: > Why not try cat nano-vnasaver | strings | less and find what shows up? > The pipe through strings will only pass strings to less so your screen > doesn't get messed up. If one of the first lines in that file is > something like #!/usr/bin/env python then this is a python package and > maybe source code too in which case will need compiling. > > > > Jude <jdashiel at panix dot com> "There are four boxes to be used in > defense of liberty: > soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." > -Ed Howdershelt (Author, 1940) > > . > > On Sat, 11 Mar 2023, K0LNY_Glenn wrote: > > > Hi David, > > I have no idea how to compile something. > > It only unzips to a file called > > nanovna-saver > > Maybe I can run py and nanovna-saver? > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "D.J.J. Ring, Jr." <n...@arrl.net> > > To: "K0LNY_Glenn" <glenn@ervin.email> > > Cc: <debian-accessibility@lists.debian.org> > > Sent: Saturday, March 11, 2023 1:22 PM > > Subject: Re: executable trouble > > > > > > I looked at GIT HUB https://github.com/NanoVNA-Saver/nanovna-saver and > > I don't find a binary file for Debian, you will have to compile it > > yourself. > > > > Also it looks like it's a python program. There are ways of installing > > python programs that others might be able to tell you about, I don't > > remember how it's done but I've done it in the past. > > > > DR > > N1EA > > > > On Sat, Mar 11, 2023 at 2:05?PM K0LNY_Glenn <glenn@ervin.email> wrote: > > > > > > Well I updated the zip file from github, and unzipped it, and did the > > > chmod > > > +x thing, and got three different errors, > > > One said something about gnu not found > > > and another said elf not found, and the third said: > > > syntax error, unterminated string. > > > I tried to direct it to a txt file to send here, but trying the > > > command > > > and > > > a greater sign or a pipe only gives me a blank txt file. > > > > > > Glenn > > > and > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > > From: "K0LNY_Glenn" <glenn@ervin.email> > > > To: <debian-accessibility@lists.debian.org> > > > Sent: Saturday, March 11, 2023 12:13 PM > > > Subject: executable trouble > > > > > > > > > Hi All, > > > I am still trying to get nanovna-saver to work on Debian bullseye. > > > I don't know if this computer is an i386, and maybe this program is 64 > > > bit, > > > but it has both for windows, but only one file for Linux. > > > The instructions say to: > > > list of 1 items > > > . If using binaries on Mac or Linux you have to chmod +x nanovna-saver > > > after > > > unzipping as executable flags get lost with zip. > > > list end > > > So I did that, then I ran: > > > sudo updatedb > > > Then I ran sudo /home/lenny/./nanovna-saver > > > and I get the error: > > > -bash nanovna-saver cannot execute binary file exec format error > > > > > > Does anyone have an idea about the error? > > > Thanks. > > > > > > > > >
