Re: installed program won't run. what did I do wrong?

On 03/20/08 09:59, wylbur37 wrote:
I downloaded a tarball and installed it by doing ...

tar xfzv brexx_1.33_linux.tar.gz

I then added the directory containing the executable to the PATH,
echoed the PATH, then tried to run it ...

/home/user/bin/brexx_1.3_linux> echo $PATH
/home/user/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/games:/home/user/
bin/brexx_1.3_linux
/home/user/bin/brexx_1.3_linux> ls -al
total 108
drwxr-xr-x 5 user user 4096 2008-03-16 05:05 ./
drwxr-xr-x 4 user user 4096 2008-03-16 05:27 ../
-rw-r--r-- 1 user user 4458 1997-11-10 12:16 filelist.txt
drwxr-xr-x 2 user user 4096 1997-11-10 12:16 hlp/
drwxr-xr-x 2 user user 4096 1997-11-10 12:16 lib/
drwxr-xr-x 2 user user 4096 1997-11-10 12:16 progs/
-rwxr-xr-x 1 user user 72808 1997-11-10 12:16 rx
-rwxr--r-- 1 user user 462 2008-03-07 06:10 x1
/home/user/bin/brexx_1.3_linux> rx
bash: /home/user/bin/rx: No such file or directory
/home/user/bin/brexx_1.3_linux> ./rx
bash: ./rx: No such file or directory

Notice that the folder containing the executable (rx)
is part of the PATH
(and besides, I'm sitting on that folder as the current directory,
and even used the dot-slash).

Are the attributes correct?

And isn't "No such file or directory" an error that normally
pertains to script files? But this is a binary executable.

What's wrong here?

It is unlikely that the link dependencies needed by an 11-year
old program are on a modern system. Try "file rx" go check the
file type and "ldd rx" to see what shared libraries are needed.
If the file type is shows it to be an a.out binary, check your
kernel to see if you still support the a.out format.
.

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