On Thu, Aug 08, 2002 at 05:11:28PM -0700, Devin Rankin wrote:
> I've been a member of the list for several months and I've played around with Linix a bit longer than that. But now I'm seeing something on a new install that I just don't understand.
>
> I can't get a file to execute by typing its name in a Bash shell.
>
> I have Suse 8.0 installed on a system with a 1900 XT AMD processor. I downloaded setiathome-3.03.i686-pc-linux-gnu-gnulibc2.1.tar and then unpacked it with a tar -xf command.
> the file unpacked the executable, setiathome. But when I change to the right subdirectory in a bash shell and type the name of the file, I get a "bash: setiathome : command not found" .
>
> I have done this before and and it worked fine. But not this time. I don't understand why it is not working. What am I missing?
Probably "." is not in your path, consequently do this
./setiathome
And of course make sure it's executable.
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