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Re: Linux Newbie

  • Subject: Re: Linux Newbie
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sun, 25 Jun 2006 10:14:53 +0100
  • Newsgroups: uk.comp.os.linux
  • Organization: schestowitz.com / MCC / Manchester University
  • References: <1151165820.21588.0@proxy02.news.clara.net> <e7jqjf$l1l$1@lion.drogon.net> <91a0n3-lej.ln1@llondel.org>
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__/ [ Dave {Reply Address In.sig} ] on Saturday 24 June 2006 18:40 \__

> Gordon Henderson wrote:
>> In article <1151165820.21588.0@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
>> Enigma <dd@xxxxxx> wrote:
>>> Hi
>>>
>>> I am jsut strarting with Linux and trying to install software for my
>>> Weather Station.
>>>
>>> "    * ./configure
>>>
>>>    * make
>>>
>>>    * make install
>>>
>>>    Just run `wx200d' by hand to get started.  Add -r if your station is a
>>>    WMR918/968  "
>>>
>>> When I go to directory where it has been installed and try to  run wx200d
>>> I get the message
>>>
>>> "command not found"
>>>
>>> Please can someone help me?
>> 
>> Try:
>> 
>> ./wx200d
>> 
>> It's possible that your $PATH doesn't have "." in it.


...And for what it's worth, in some installation processes, the above will
result in:

Permission denied

Take Google Earth for example. This requires the file to be made executable,
which it isn't always by default.

,----[ Command ]
| chmod 700 ./wx200d
| ./wx200d
`----

Surely, the other route would be to use the fine GUI's
(Konqueror/Nautilus/whatever) to change permissions and then just click on
the file to execute. Makes it a lot better...


> And so it shouldn't, it's a security risk. The best approach is to find
> where the software has been installed and (as root) install a link to it
> from /usr/local/bin (assuming that's in the path). Most things should
> work that way. It might have needed to be installed as root in the first
> place, of course.


There is also the issue of collisions, ambiguity and calls for executables
that are overriding one another. As in programming, this leads to confusions
that are often a debugging nightmare.

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