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

[Charles MacDonald]

Could not help doing another google search -- Will this one help
http://www.dlecan.com/archives/56-How-to-install-FreeFileSync-on-Ubuntu-PPA-Edited.html

or http://bit.ly/c0qVEY



On 11-09-02 08:29 PM, Charles MacDonald wrote:
> 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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