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File system cannot see Golly executable

Post by Freywa » October 19th, 2015, 12:04 am

I'm running Trisquel 7.0 (a Linux OS based on Ubuntu). I've unzipped the Golly 2.7 executable and I try to run it, but every time the file system cannot see the executable despite it being in plain sight!
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What in the world is wrong here? (Golly v2.5, being in my repository, works normally.)
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Re: File system cannot see Golly executable

Post by calcyman » October 19th, 2015, 2:52 am

Perhaps the file permissions are wrong? Run ls -al from that working directory and see whether it locates Golly (and, if so, whether you have read and execute permissions).
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Re: File system cannot see Golly executable

Post by Freywa » October 19th, 2015, 3:58 am

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ls does show that I have RWX permissions, yet Bash still cannot locate the file.
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Re: File system cannot see Golly executable

Post by Andrew » October 19th, 2015, 4:57 am

Freywa wrote:ls does show that I have RWX permissions, yet Bash still cannot locate the file.
Very odd! I've got no idea what might be wrong (I don't spend much time on Linux).

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Re: File system cannot see Golly executable

Post by Freywa » October 19th, 2015, 8:33 pm

Well I can't open bgolly either, but I can open the read-me file just fine. The problem only affects the two executables. Other executables (including apgnano, which I compiled myself) work just fine.

In the meantime I'm fine with v2.5 (the version provided by my repository).
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Re: File system cannot see Golly executable

Post by Freywa » October 22nd, 2015, 12:35 am

OK, I managed to compile and install Golly from source. I accidentally installed the necessary packages while trying to install matplotlib and, what do you know, that was the piece of the puzzle I needed.
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Re: File system cannot see Golly executable

Post by Linicks » November 14th, 2015, 9:56 am

An old thread I know, but sometimes file names are not what they seem.

What you should have tried is ./g<now hit TAB> - doing that bash will give you file name options it finds starting with 'g'.

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Re: File system cannot see Golly executable

Post by Scorbie » November 26th, 2015, 1:15 am

Freywa wrote:In the meantime I'm fine with v2.5 (the version provided by my repository).
Huh. So Golly is supported as a package in repositories of some distros? Interesting.

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