[oclug] Downloaded a program - not going too well...

[Charles MacDonald]

On 11-09-01 10:29 PM, Andy Civil wrote:
>
> First question: where should I put this? Yes, I know I could put it
> anywhere, but if you were trying to find a downloaded program on someone
> else's computer, where would you look FIRST? Anyway, for now, I unzipped
> it into /home/andy/ so that the executable is in /home/andy/FreeFileSync/.

First choce is proably what is in the sourceforge documentation, they 
often will have ideas of where to put something.

Second choice is to follow the Unix convetions and place it in a 
subdirectory like /usr/local/programName


> Oh, I just tried something else - I tried executing it from a shell. It
> complains:
> andy at Boots:~/FreeFileSync$ ./FreeFileSync: error while loading shared
> libraries: libunity.so.4: cannot open shared object file: No such file
> or directory

The needed Libraries may be explained by the documentation on source 
forge.  You will have to get them and place them where they expect to live.

No, they don't seem to have very much in the way of documention, they DO 
have a help forum at
http://sourceforge.net/projects/freefilesync/forums/forum/847543
that may be able to assist.


Most of the work is generaly done by the "packager for the distribution. 
  if there is a DEB file of the program, it will know what work is needed.


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