[ale] Enlightenment not there?

[Steven A DuChene]

On Mon, Feb 08, 1999 at 05:55:28PM -0500, Michael B Golden wrote:
> 	I tried to install the Enlightement window manager on Slackware
> today. I pulled it off of the Macmillan set RedHat 5.2 Bonus CD, and
> converted it using rpm2targz. I then ran pkgtool, but whenever I told it
> I wanted to install a package from the current directory, it quit, so
> instead, I ran installpkg, which appears to have installed successfully.
> The problem is that it says that it doesn't exist. Here is what ls -l
> reports in /usr/local/Enlightenment/bin:
> 
> -rwxr-xr-x   1 root     root        54754 Jul 17  1998 ConfigEdit*
> -rwxr-xr-x   1 root     root       131022 Jul 17  1998 dox*
> -rwxr-xr-x   1 root     root       520703 Jul 17  1998 enlightenment*
> 
> But when I try to run it, it shows me this:
> 
> enlightenment: can't stat `enlightenment' (No such file or directory).
> 
> So I tried two methods to prove to myself that it really is there. First,
> I used file which reported:
> 
> -enlightenment: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1,
> dynamically linked, 
> 
> Second, I did something I shouldn't have, and I tried to edit the file
> with emacs. It showed a bunch of stuff, so I am quite well assured that
> it is there. Any ideas?

It might be that this is a glibc executable instead of a libc5 executable
Try running:

 ldd /usr/local/Enlightenment/bin/enlightenment

and see if all the library are satisfied.
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Steve DuChene              sad at ale.org