No such file problems (WAS: Re: WordPerfect doesn't run)

[s-luppescu uchicago edu]

On 04-Oct-2000 s-luppescu@uchicago.edu wrote:
> On 03-Oct-2000 Jakub Jelinek wrote:
>> On Tue, Oct 03, 2000 at 03:02:03PM -0500, s-luppescu@uchicago.edu wrote:
>>> The problem now is I can't get WordPerfect to run. I tried the free
>>> version,
>>> but the install script goes totally bananas now (it didn't used to),
>>> unpacks
>>> tar
>>> files to weird places and then can't find where it put them. 
>>> 
>>> I also have a copy of the full version (I won a copy of Corel Linux and
>>> converted wp from the .deb to .rpm with alien), but that behaves extremely
>>> strangely. When I run it I get this:
>>> 
>>>  xwp
>>> /usr/bin/xwp: /usr/lib/wp8/wpbin/xwp: No such file or directory
>>> /usr/bin/xwp: /usr/lib/wp8/wpbin/xwp: No such file or directory
>>> 
>>> The executable is just a little script:
>>> 
>>> [sl70@musuko:~/.gnupg] <14:58:41> 1064  ->> less `which xwp`
>>> #!/bin/sh
>>> set -a
>>> PATH=/usr/lib/wp8/wpbin:/usr/lib/wp8/shbin10:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin
>>> set +a
>>> exec xwp "$@"
>>> 
>>> And while it complains it can't find the main program, here it is:
>>> [sl70@musuko:~/.gnupg] <14:59:03> 1065  ->> ll /usr/lib/wp8/wpbin/xwp
>>> -rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root      8161760 Nov  2  1999
>>> /usr/lib/wp8/wpbin/xwp
>>> 
>>> Or is /usr/lib/wp8/wpbin/xwp failing to find a file?
>> 
>> Can you:
>> file /usr/lib/wp8/wpbin/xwp
>> ldd /usr/lib/wp8/wpbin/xwp
> 
> This is really weird:
> 
> [root@musuko:/usr/lib/wp8/wpbin] <09:13:16> 1000  ->> file xwp
> xwp: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1, dynamically linked
> (uses shared libs), stripped
> [root@musuko:/usr/lib/wp8/wpbin] <09:13:20> 1001  ->> ls xwp*
> xwp       xwpdraw   xwpsahlp  
> [root@musuko:/usr/lib/wp8/wpbin] <09:13:20> 1001  ->> ldd xwp
> /usr/bin/ldd: ./xwp: No such file or directory

It's not just this program. I just tried to install teraspell, my spelling
program for emacs. Here's what happened:

[root@musuko:teraspell_1_linux] <11:53:49> 1016  ->> ll install_teraspell 
-rwxrwxr-x    1 snort    rsl         54173 Aug 22  1997 install_teraspell
[root@musuko:teraspell_1_linux] <11:54:03> 1017  ->> ./install_teraspell 
bash: ./install_teraspell: No such file or directory
[root@musuko:teraspell_1_linux] <11:54:23> 1018  ->> file install_teraspell 
install_teraspell: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1,
dynamically linked (uses shared libs), not stripped
[root@musuko:teraspell_1_linux] <11:54:28> 1019  ->> ldd install_teraspell 
/usr/bin/ldd: ./install_teraspell: No such file or directory

Does anyone know what's going on here?
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