On Friday 25 May 2001 05:11, Praedor Tempus wrote:
> I have run into this several times myself. With me, the latest such
> episode occurred with sixpack, a bibliography application for lyx. I
> installed it, which went fine. I then try to run it and get the same
> message you do. I then do a "which <executable>" and it properly
> identifies the executable in the proper place.
>
> The executable just wont work and isn't recognized. I then tried
> reinstalling and that appeared to do the trick. I have run into this with
> several different programs lately: sixpack, pybliographic, k3d, and a
> couple others I can't recall right now.
>
> On Friday 25 May 2001 03:01, Will Woods wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have just done a fresh install of Mandrake 8.0 after having used 7.2
> > with no problems for some time. I am trying to install two different
> > commercial symbolic math packages, Macsyma Pro 2.4 and Maple V. Both
> > packages seem to install fine, but the executables they install are not
> > recognized by the system. I can list them, e.g. ls -l for Maple gives:
> >
> > # ls -l mapleTTY
> > -rwxrwxr-x 1 alias 24 669660 Jan 11 1998 mapleTTY*
> >
> > but trying to execute it gives the following:
> >
> > # ./mapleTTY
> > bash: ./mapleTTY: No such file or directory
> >
> > (this is not a PATH problem, it happens when I'm in the same dir as the
> > executable)
> >
> > The same problem occurs for Macsyma. Both packages installed and ran fine
> > under 7.2.
> >
> > Anybody got any ideas?
> >
> > Thanks for any help
> >
> > Will
If which works then you can always use
$(which program) to execute program.
When those two don't match up, it is usually a PATH problem. You really need
a blank path at the front of the stream of paths.
Civileme
