I'm sure there is something here that I'm missing with this issue, but here goes anyway.

OS: Slamd64
Kernel: 2.6.29.6.Mine
echo $SHELL: tcsh
WindowManager: Fluxbox ver. 1.1.1

Problem: (but seems to be consistent with other installed applications)

• Install 'Eterm' for Slamd64, everything compiled from the Slamd64 repository

  successful install no problems with configure, no missing libraries, make, or make install.

• -- run ldconfig - just in case

  no failures

• -- run su -c 'updatedb' - just in case

  - no failures

• -- [pts/1][14:01][me@here][~]Eterm

  - [pts/1][14:01][me@here][~] Command Not Found

• -- run slocate Eterm | less

  <snip>...
  /usr/bin/Eterm
  /usr/man/man1/Eterm.1.gz
  /usr/local/lib/libEterm-0.9.5.so
  /usr/local/lib/libEterm.so
  /usr/local/lib/libEterm.la
  /usr/local/lib/libEterm.a
  /usr/local/bin/Eterm
  /usr/local/man/man1/Eterm.1
  /usr/local/share/Eterm
  <snip>...

• [pts/1][14:01][me@here][~]/usr/bin/Eterm

  -[pts/1][14:01][me@here][~] Command Not Found

• [pts/1][14:01][me@here][~]/usr/local/bin/Eterm
  

  success - Eterm pops up on my screen

• [pts/1][14:01][me@here][~] ln -s /usr/bin/Eterm Eterm

  -[pts/1][14:01][me@here][~] Command Not Found

• Remove previous link and create another one
  [pts/1][14:01][me@here][~] ln -s /usr/local/bin/Eterm Eterm
  

  success - Eterm pops up on my screen

So I'm trying to figure out what I'm doing wrong and this seems to be consistent with installing additional application. I used Eterm as an example so you can see what I'm doing or what I'm doing wrong.

Any guidance or help would be greatly appreciated or a reference to another post here that I didn't look for that has a possible solution.

Thanks in advance.

What's the output of

?

echo $PATH
:/usr/local/bin
:/usr/bin
:/bin
:/usr/games
:/usr/lib/java/bin
:/usr/lib/jre/bin
:/usr/lib64/java/bin
:/usr/lib/64/kde4/libexec
:/opt/kde3/lib64/qt3/bin
:/opt/kde3/bin
:/usr/lib64/qt/bin
:/usr/share/texmf/bin
:.

What's the output of 'file /usr/bin/Eterm /usr/local/bin/Eterm'?

Adam

file /usr/local/bin/Eterm
/usr/local/bin/Eterm: ELF 64bit LSB executable, x86_64, version 1 (SYSV) dynamically linked (user shared libs), not stripped

N.B.: I "su -c 'removepkg Eterm.0.9'" the old Eterm.tgz, as that was compiled from linuxpackages.org not from the slamd64 repository. so now 'file /usr/bin/Eterm' returns /usr/bin/Eterm: cannot open '/usr/bin/Eterm/' (no such file or directory). Problem still persists with 'usr/local/bin' version.

What problem is that? According to your original post, Eterm worked fine when you ran /usr/local/bin/Eterm.

Adam

-- [pts/1][14:01][me@here][~]Eterm
- [pts/1][14:01][me@here][~] Command Not Found

[pts/1][14:01][me@here][~]/usr/local/bin/Eterm
success - Eterm pops up on my screen

[pts/1][14:01][me@here][~] ln -s /usr/local/bin/Eterm Eterm
[pts/1][14:01][me@here][~] Eterm
success - Eterm pops up on my screen

the question is - why does it 'not' run from my "~" folder unless I symlink to it or if I put in the full path to it?

Is the Eterm in /usr/bin a broken symlink?

I removed the /usr/bin/Eterm.

I found it was from when I tried to install Eterm.tgz from linuxpackages.org. Not from the slamd64 repository

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how about this one, it's not so convoluted
I downloaded boswars - untar'd it
no make or configure required.

rwxr-xr-x 1 me me 1.9M 2010-04-18 boswars*

[pts/1][17:02][me@here][~/usr/gamez/boswars-2.6.1-linux] boswars
boswars: Command not found.
[pts/1][17:02][me@here][~/usr/gamez/boswars-2.6.1-linux] ./boswars
./boswars: Command not found.

Is boswars 32-bit or 64-bit? Is your system multilib?

Adam

Now that's a good question; how can I make the distinction if the system is 'multilib' or not?

The game is multi-platform. Not exactly sure if it's 32 or 64, but I'm guessing it's 32bit.

With slackware 13.0 you would know if it was multilib because you would have actively had to make it that way. I'm not sure if that's true with slamd64, though.

Adam

Slamd64 is a multilib system.

Well that answers that. Guess that's not the problem, then.

EDIT: Well, unless you built your own kernel and removed 32-bit compatibility.

Adam

$PATH is ignored by tcsh; it uses an array variable $path instead. Imyrryr, please echo $path for us.