Running a program in Ubuntu

LeythDC5 · 07-11-2006, 03:22 AM

I'm fairly new to linux altogether. i downloaded amule, i ran the .deb file it says it installed but how do i run it now?

LeythDC5 · 07-11-2006, 03:27 AM

And also, I installed Frostwire and when i try to execute the program it doesn't do anything.

TruANTOlogy · 07-11-2006, 06:08 AM

I believe if you open up the run dialog (Press ALT+F2) and type in "amule" or "frostwire" they will run. If you tell the run dialog to run something and you don't see any output, try it again using the checkbox "Run in Terminal" enabled.

If you would like some help creating a launcher for either program, tell us so, and we'll be glad to hook you up!

PS, welcome to the real computing world!!

mrcheeks · 07-11-2006, 07:21 AM

There is a problem with the frostwire run script. You have to edit the file runfrost.sh and convert the line delimiters to CL. To locate the file runfrosh.sh do

Code:

dpkg -L frostwire|grep rost.sh

LeythDC5 · 07-11-2006, 11:03 AM

nothing worked, i tried to run in alt-f2 with run in terminal checked. It didn't work and I couldn't figure out what to do after typing in that code mrcheeks

LeythDC5 · 07-11-2006, 11:08 AM

I don't know if these programs are installaed correctly or not. All I did was double click the .deb files and it did its thing and I assume that installed the programs right?

TruANTOlogy · 07-11-2006, 11:26 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by LeythDC5

I don't know if these programs are installaed correctly or not. All I did was double click the .deb files and it did its thing and I assume that installed the programs right?

I am to assume that when you double clicked on the .deb file, it opened the debi installer and you then clicked "Install Package" and then it told you that it was installed?

just gotta be sure is all

LeythDC5 · 07-11-2006, 11:30 AM

yea I did that, what should i do next?

TruANTOlogy · 07-11-2006, 11:37 AM

as for amule, providing gDebi told you that it was installed correctly, just drop to a term and type amule...that should work.

As for Frostwire, do me a favor...drop to a term and type "frostwire" (without the quotes) and post what you get

LeythDC5 · 07-11-2006, 11:42 AM

Starting FrostWire...
Java exec found in PATH. Verifying...
OOPS, you don't seem to have a valid JRE. FrostWire works best with Sun JRE available at http://www.java.com
OOPS, unable to locate java exec in /usr/lib/ hierarchy
You need to upgrade to JRE 1.4.x or newer from http://www.java.com
ls: /usr/java/j*: No such file or directory
OOPS, unable to locate java exec in /usr/java/ hierarchy
You need to upgrade to JRE 1.4.x or newer from http://www.java.com
ls: /opt/j*: No such file or directory
OOPS, unable to locate java exec in /opt/ hierarchy
You need to upgrade to JRE 1.4.x or newer from http://www.java.com

That's what it says for frost wire

amule: error while loading shared libraries: libwx_gtk2u_adv-2.6.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

thats what it said for amule

TruANTOlogy · 07-11-2006, 11:49 AM

as for amule, try doing the following command in term: "sudo apt-get install libwxgtk2.4-1" (w/o quotes) if it tells you its already installed, i dunno...

As for frostwire, you have to do a few Java-related things first:

"sudo apt-get install sun-java5-jre sun-java5-plugin" (w/o quotes)
[When asked, agree with DLJ license terms]
Then, "sudo update-alternatives --config java"
[Choose option 3 (that should be /usr/lib/jvm/java-1.5.0-sun/jre/java)]

Then run "frostwire" again

LeythDC5 · 07-11-2006, 11:52 AM

leythdc5@leythdc5-laptop:~$ sudo apt-get install libwxgtk2.4-1
Password:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
E: Couldn't find package libwxgtk2.4-1
leythdc5@leythdc5-laptop:~$ sudo apt-get install sun-java5-jre sun-java5-plugin
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
E: Couldn't find package sun-java5-jre
leythdc5@leythdc5-laptop:~$

thats my terminal =(

TruANTOlogy · 07-11-2006, 11:57 AM

mmkay. fun stuff!

what version of Ubuntu are you running?
--EDIT--
PS, if you want, you can IM me.

TruANTOlogy · 07-11-2006, 01:07 PM

well, hopefully its Dapper (6.06 LTS)

if that's the case, question...do you have any customized repositories? do you know what that is? if your answer is "No" to both, do the following:

Code:

sudo cp -p /etc/apt/sources.list /etc/apt/sources.list.original
sudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list

Then highlight EVERYTHING (CTRL+A) and delete it, and replace it with the following

Code:

## Add comments (##) in front of any line to remove it from being checked.   
## Use the following sources.list at your own risk.  

deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu dapper main restricted universe multiverse
deb-src http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu dapper main restricted universe multiverse

## MAJOR BUG FIX UPDATES produced after the final release
deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu dapper-updates main restricted universe multiverse
deb-src http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu dapper-updates main restricted universe multiverse

## UBUNTU SECURITY UPDATES
deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu dapper-security main restricted universe multiverse
deb-src http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu dapper-security main restricted universe multiverse

## BACKPORTS REPOSITORY (Unsupported.  May contain illegal packages.  Use at own risk.)
deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu dapper-backports main restricted universe multiverse
deb-src http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu dapper-backports main restricted universe multiverse

## PLF REPOSITORY (Unsupported.  May contain illegal packages.  Use at own risk.)
deb http://packages.freecontrib.org/ubuntu/plf dapper free non-free
deb-src http://packages.freecontrib.org/ubuntu/plf dapper free non-free                                              
                                                                                                                                          
## CANONICAL COMMERCIAL REPOSITORY (Hosted on Canonical servers, not Ubuntu
## servers. RealPlayer10, Opera and more to come.) 
deb http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu dapper-commercial main

then do the previous steps (libwxgtk, etc)

Hope that helps!

fragos · 07-11-2006, 04:21 PM

When you wish to install an application the first place to look is Applications-> Add/Remove. amule is there and would have been installed correctly for Ubuntu with an icon in the Applications menu. Frostfire isn't there so the next place to look in System-> Administration-> Synaptic Package Manager. deb files will install correctly but they may be missing full integration with the Ubuntu environment. You may not find everything you want in the sources I recommended but what you find there will have been setup for Ubuntu.