Using Ubuntu 5.10 I installed tinycobol through apt-get using the following repository:
deb http://paginas.terra.com.br/informat...ote/tinycobol/ ./

I used the given repository, updated and installed tinycobol without any problems. I then wrote a little hello world program to test it and saved it as hello.cob. I used the command 'htcobol hello.cob' but all I got was 'sh: as: command not found'. I was wondering if anyone who has used this could provide some help. I have verified that tinycobol installed by using 'htcobol -V' and the man pages and help all work fine, but I was unable to find an answer there. Any help would be appreciated.

I don't know anything about tinycobol ...

... but the error message, "sh: as: command not found", suggests that tinycobol is looking for an assembler. Probably the Gnu Assembler ("gas").

Here's a link that lists dependencies for Tinycobol - it looks like there's a lot of them (including "as", but also gcc, yacc, lex, curses, getopts and many others):
http://tiny-cobol.sourceforge.net/docs/wiki/

At a minimum, please do "apt-get", install Gas, and see if you get any further.

'Hope that helps .. PSM

Thank you for your reply. It was my own mistake, by doing 'sudo apt-get install build-essential' it seems to have taken care of everything else I needed. Thanks again.