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I'm trying to run some Linux programs under Lindows 4 by double clicking them in Konqueror and it is telling me it can't find that executeable I just clicked on. Trying the same thing under RedHat or Mandrake has always run the program. Any ideas to what the deal is?
I have tried Blender (runs great under RedHat, but "Can't find Blender")
I tried to run InfoNES, "Can't find InfoNES"
I tried to run sNES9x, "Can't find sNES9x"
Everything I try, it does that. All these work very well under RedHat, where I pulled the files from (after setting them up there).
if you had to compile the program, then you can usually just type the name of the program in a console (granted you did make install) or explicitly type the path name
or if it is a binary that you just download, then cd into the directory in a console and do ./programname
double-clicking on things in linux doesn't work the same way as in windows; you should use the console (and trust me, it is extremely easy)
These binaries are ready to go and are exactly like I've been running them for months off of my RedHat system. I have not updated my Path statement on my RedHat box either and they run great.
Since it's Lindows, think I may need to do a Click-N-Run to get them working?
Last edited by lectraplayer; 03-06-2004 at 09:25 PM.
so you compiled in redhat and are just copying over the files to another linux distro partition?
typically that is not a good idea, since the compiled programs build themselves to adapt to that specific distro's environment; it is best to recompile the program in the new distro and then copy over settings files (many of them are located in ~/.programname, ie zsnes is compiled separately on all my distros, but i use the same things located in my /home/user/.zsnes/)
I may have a lead here. I'm wondering why it has two "My Documents" folders. It don't even show up in the terminal whereas I can find it all day in Konqueror. Could that be a Lindows quirk?
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