On 06/15/2012 09:57 PM, Warren Samples wrote:
On 06/15/2012 02:19 AM, Peter Alcibiades wrote:
I am probably doing something silly, but can anyone help with why this
should be happening?
I hosed my Debian installation (don't ask!). So not having done a new
install for many years and several new computers, I decided the thing
to do was start from scratch again. Its not a big deal, you just wipe
your root partition and reinstall, then after you've laboriously
installed all the apps again, and its amazing how many there were, all
the menus and all the data files link up perfectly.
So, this leaves LiveCode. Download the installer using firefox. Open
terminal. cd to Download. ls shows its there. Try to run it, and it
says file does not exist. OK, lets confirm its there and being invoked
beyond any doubt. So I create a directory livecode and move the
installer to it. It moves fine. Now we try to run it. Doing it like
this there can't be any silly spelling mistakes.
~/livecode$ ls
LiveCodeInstaller-4_5_3-Linux.x86
:~/livecode$ ./L*
bash: ./LiveCodeInstaller-4_5_3-Linux.x86: No such file or directory
same thing happens if I become root. Its not because its an archive,
either. Try to open it with archive manager from thunar file manager
and the same thing happens. Its not the file manager, do it from gnome
commander, same thing (well, that just invokes a terminal so its not
surprising).
Any suggestions? Its probably something completely stupid, but what?
Peter
Peter is your Linux install 64 bit? I just installed Mint 13 in 64 bit
(in VirtualBox) and get this same message. Furthermore, lld says it's
not a linked executable, and says the same thing about Livecode itself
after I copied over a working installation from another machine. I
checked my Mint 9 32 bit insatll and it works. I then installed Mint 13
32 bit and it works fine as well. 64 bit Mint now ships with 32 bit libs
preinstalled but it may be that some additional libs are necessary to
get Livecode working. If I read the Mint docs correctly not everything
that used to be installed with ia32libs is included. Could you be having
this kind of issue?
Good luck,
Warren
Adding some 32 bit libs in the software center in Mint 13 has helped.
This is clearly the problem. Livecode is not working with the new
multiarch system implemented in Mint 13. ldd now gives me this:
warren@mint-13-64 ~ $ ldd
'/home/warren/Downloads/LiveCodeInstaller-4_6_4-Linux.x86'
linux-gate.so.1 => (0xf7740000)
libdl.so.2 => /lib32/libdl.so.2 (0xf7725000)
libX11.so.6 => not found
libm.so.6 => /lib32/libm.so.6 (0xf76fa000)
libXext.so.6 => not found
libpthread.so.0 => /lib32/libpthread.so.0 (0xf76df000)
libc.so.6 => /lib32/libc.so.6 (0xf753c000)
/lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0xf7741000)
I'm not sure what the best route to the missing X libs is. They aren't
available in the software center as far as I can tell.
I had no trouble in the past getting Livecode to work in 64 bit Mint 10,
and openSUSE 11.4 and 12.1 just by installing the basic 32 bit
compatibility libs. It would be a big blow to usability if Livecode does
not work as expected as distros adopt a new architecture for 32 bit
compatibility. It will affect all standalones, as well.
Warren
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