| Walt Mankowski on 15 Sep 2009 19:47:17 -0700 |
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On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 10:15:24PM -0400, Gordon Dexter wrote: > My dad just got an Eee 900 with the default Linux install on it (which I > plan on replacing with Ubuntu soon) and the first thing he wanted to do > is crosswords on it. The NY Times has a free version of a crossword > program, and it even has a Linux version! So over the phone I help him > download it, untar it, and try and run it, only it says it doesn't > exist. So I figure I'm getting confused or something because it's over > the phone, so I try it and, it says it doesn't exist. It's the > strangest thing I ever saw: > > gdexter@buffy:~/Desktop/acl$ ls > acrossl LICENSE man Puzzles README > gdexter@buffy:~/Desktop/acl$ file acrossl > acrossl: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1 (SYSV), > dynamically linked (uses shared libs), stripped > gdexter@buffy:~/Desktop/acl$ ./acrossl > bash: ./acrossl: No such file or directory > gdexter@buffy:~/Desktop/acl$ ldd acrossl > /usr/bin/ldd: line 117: ./acrossl: No such file or directory > gdexter@buffy:~/Desktop/acl$ > > I google it and there are forum posts of people having the same problem > with it, and none of them have any solution or even any idea what might > cause that. There's a file there, no question, but when I try to run it > it's as if it didn't exist! Has anybody seen this weirdness before? Well, I tried it and got the same error. The executable is very old (January 1997!) so maybe it's a library issue? Or an old version of ELF? The README file has a lot of information about required libraries, and also how to get support. I'd probably start there. Good luck. Walt Attachment:
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