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nekokami · 09-06-2007, 11:34 PM

I re-requested the Developer Package and it downloaded, but still no luck getting any shell scripts to run. I can't install or uninstall FBReader. All the shell scripts have an "X" icon next to them (I can't remember if they did before) and none of them seem to do anything. However, actual shell scripts (as opposed to various data files or whatever) behave as though they might try to do something, i.e. if I click on a run.sh, I get the crawling dots at the bottom for a second or so, then the screen clears, then I return to the same directory listing.

I thought it might be a unix permissions problem, but I checked and all the shell script perms are 777.

The problem started, as I said, when I re-organized the CF card. I created a Books directory, moved everything into it, then moved the Programs directory back to the root level of the CF card. I was using Ubuntu's graphical file manager for this, so I suppose I might have missed a stray hidden file or something, but I've gone back and checked and I found no stray files in any of the directories.

I don't see the XML file FBReader likes to store its library in, though. Could it fail to run if that is missing? But why won't any of the other shell scripts run? I've tried mrxvt, emelfm2, and gargoyle.

09-06-2007, 11:34 PM	#3
nekokami fruminous edugeek Posts: 6,745 Karma: 551260 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Northeast US Device: iPad, eBw 1150	I re-requested the Developer Package and it downloaded, but still no luck getting any shell scripts to run. I can't install or uninstall FBReader. All the shell scripts have an "X" icon next to them (I can't remember if they did before) and none of them seem to do anything. However, actual shell scripts (as opposed to various data files or whatever) behave as though they might try to do something, i.e. if I click on a run.sh, I get the crawling dots at the bottom for a second or so, then the screen clears, then I return to the same directory listing. I thought it might be a unix permissions problem, but I checked and all the shell script perms are 777. The problem started, as I said, when I re-organized the CF card. I created a Books directory, moved everything into it, then moved the Programs directory back to the root level of the CF card. I was using Ubuntu's graphical file manager for this, so I suppose I might have missed a stray hidden file or something, but I've gone back and checked and I found no stray files in any of the directories. I don't see the XML file FBReader likes to store its library in, though. Could it fail to run if that is missing? But why won't any of the other shell scripts run? I've tried mrxvt, emelfm2, and gargoyle.