Greetings oh enlightened ones,

I'm running Suse 9.0 and I recently downloaded eclipse (a Java IDE). Eclipse doesn't come in a RPM, instead it simply has to be unpacked somewhere. I unpacked it into "/opt/eclipse" and tried to run the executable "eclipse".
But when clicking on the executable from within Conqueror, it tells me it can't find the program "eclipse".
And when I try to run it from the shell:
UberNoob@linux:/opt/eclipse>eclipse
bash: /home/UberNoob/bin/eclipse: No such file or directory

Why doesn't linux look in the working directory? Can it only run executables located in the "bin" directories?

Well, since I'm a smart guy, I linked the eclipse executable into /home/UberNoob/bin
But then eclipse tells me that it can't find the shared library "libXm.so", which is also located in the eclipse directory, with the omnious message "file too short".

Do I have to move everything into the bin directory to make this work? Why are Conqueror and the Shell so immensely mentally-challenged as to be unable to figure out that the path to the program I'm trying to run is in the very same directory I'm in? And especially uber-stupid Conqueror can't find the program "eclipse" even though I`m directly clicking on it... what is going on here?

I have executable permissions set, buy the way.

This is starting to frustrate me very, very badly.

Go to heaven. Help a Linux-Noob not return to Windows.

Hi!
No. You can run executables located either somewhere in the PATH environment variable or typing the complete route; so you should try to type in console
or, if your PWD variable is "/opt/eclipse/" (i.e. you are in this directory), just type
Check it, and tell what happens.
Regards

Thanks for your reply Yoyimbo.

And thanks for the confirmation that Linux needs the full path or the path being set in PATH.

I tried running it with ./eclipse, but got a plenty heap of error messages. I found the problem anyways and finally got it working.

The problem is that Konqueror has a bug and doesn't unzip correctly, so it screwed up a few files. I unzipped eclipse manually from the console, and now it works.

Thanks anyhow.

Well, I'm not fully sure, but I think this is for security reasons.

Anyway, I'm glad to hear that worked!
(and I hope you didn't get too frustrated with linux; there are bugs everywhere)

Regards