On Sun, 22 Nov 2009 13:14:29 -0800 drew wymore <[email protected]> dijo:
> On Sun, Nov 22, 2009 at 11:59 AM, John Jason Jordan <[email protected]>wrote: > > > On Sun, 22 Nov 2009 00:41:23 -0800 > > drew wymore <[email protected]> dijo: > > > > > On Sun, Nov 22, 2009 at 12:14 AM, John Jason Jordan <[email protected] > > >wrote: > > > > > > 2) Can't figure out how to install Xara Extreme. I found the > > > > instructions on the Xara website, but I didn't understand them and I'm > > > > sure I never went through all that stuff when I installed it on Ubuntu. > > > > Again, luckily, I rarely use it. > > > > > Did you download the auto package file or the tar.bz2 file? If you > > > downloaded the tar file, tar -jxvf will untar it and you can cd into the > > > directory and execute bin/xaraxl to run it. I'm sure you can create a > > > launcher for this task as well. > > > > Just now I downloaded the tar.bz2 file and untarred it to > > ~/Software/Xara/. From within the ~/Software/Xara/xaralx/bin folder ls > > says the xaralx file is there, but the command "xaralx" says there is > > no such command. Double clicking on it from Nautilus nothing happened > > at first, but then I discovered that I did not have permission to > > execute the file. After giving myself (and everyone else) permission to > > execute it via the Nautilus Properties dialog box, double clicking on > > it launches the splash screen, but that's as far as it gets. From the > > command line I still get "no such command." Nautilus describes xaralx > > as an executable file, but I'm not always convinced that Nautilus knows > > what it's talking about. From the command line its attributes are > > -rwxrwxrwx 1. I think that means that it is readable, writable, and > > executable by me, by anyone in my group, and by root. But I'm far from > > an expert on chmod. > It's saying no command found because Sofware/Xara is not in your path. You > have to ./$command to get it to launch properly from the bin directory. Oh! Duh! OK, now I know what the problem is. Running ./xaralx tries to launch it, but spews a page of "wrong elf class" errors, then aborts. I know that error - xaralx is a 32-bit app and I have 64-bit Linux. Still, I had it running on 64-bit Ubuntu, so there must be a way. I can't remember how I did it. _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
