On Tue, Dec 06, 2005 at 08:41:46AM +0000, Richard Lyons wrote: > On Tuesday, 6 December 2005 at 1:11:32 +0000, Andrew Perrin wrote: > > On Tue, 6 Dec 2005, Richard Lyons wrote: > > > > > > > >The problem is that installed software sometimes refuses to run, giving > > >'file not found', in spite of the fact that the file in question will ls > > >normally, permissions are ok, etc, and I can even cat the file. This > > >happens only with certain files, for example two separate attempts to > > >install qcad professional. Other software, loaded via normal Debian > > >routes, runs apparently normally. > > > > > >Any suggestions to how to proceed? > > > > > > Can you post the output from your attempt to run the software? > > Here is an example: > $ qcad-2.1.0.0-rc1-1-prof.linux.lcpp5.x86$ ls > bin doc examples fonts library patterns qcad qm README scripts > $ ./qcad > bash: ./qcad: No such file or directory > > showing that it even happens when in the same diectory. And, yes, the > file qcad is world executable.
Maybe it's missing some vital library or somesuch [1]. Try ldd, or if that doesn't help, "strace -efile ..." to find out... Good luck, Almut [1] for example, during transition from libc5 to libc6, you sometimes did get similarly weird messages because the corresponding ld.so was no longer found (the path to ld-linux.so.1 or ld-linux.so.2 is hard-wired in the binary). I don't suppose this is your problem here, though, as qcad-2.1 seems to be somewhat more recent... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
