On Thursday 28 February 2002 05:48 pm, you wrote:
> On Wed, 27 Feb 2002, Bob Stia wrote:
> > More guidance ?? Please ??? I really hate being ignorant.
>
> Don't worry about it...what's frustrating is that I couldn't figure
> out why you were having such problems.
>
> Well, I downloaded the latest pysol (4.80) to see what we're
> dealing with here. Now I know what's going on.
>
> The file "pysol" is a Bourne Shell script. (Lots of script types,
> eh?) You can tell this by running "file
> /usr/local/pysol-4.60/pysol". Confirming this (since it's a script
> and not a binary), you can look at the first line which reads:
>
> #! /bin/sh
>
> If this line was /usr/bin/perl or /usr/bin/python one of those
> other things we had been trying would work.
>
> Now, there are two ways to run the script. The first is the way
> we've been trying, only with a different interpreter.
>
> sh /usr/local/pysol-4.60/pysol
>
> The other way is to run it like any normal command. To do this,
> you need to have read/execute permissions. Doing an "ls -l
> /usr/local/pysol-4.60/pysol" should return something like:
>
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root other <size> <date> pysol
>
> As long as all the little "x"s are there then you can just use the
> following command line:
>
> /usr/local/pysol-4.60/pysol
>
> (This is what you would do if pysol was a binary executable, of
> course.)
>
> Now that we know how to run it, if it doesn't throw up our happy
> solitaire game now we should be able to find out more information.
> (The pysol script in question launches some other stuff written in
> python, which is part of the errors we were looking at before.)
>
> Let me know if this fails and how it fails. Maybe your
> installation is corrupt. The homepage for pysol can be found at
> http://www.oberhumer.com/opensource/pysol which has the latest
> version as well as links to the RPMs (down at the bottom of the
> page) on rpmfind.net.
>
> Whew! It's been a long, strange journey, but I think we're near
> the end.
Hey Paul.
Thanks for your interest and perseverance. Seems you have gone
"the extra mile" I really appreciate it. Won't have time until
Sunday to try and do what you have suggested. Will try then and let
the list know what happened.
Bob S.
This archive was generated by hypermail 2.1.3 : Fri Aug 01 2014 - 17:34:54 EDT