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yetihym

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Registered: 2008-10-24

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[solved]Why "no such file or directory"?

I got a really strange problem when trying to install RealPlayer using console binary package.

[yeti@yetibox abs]$ ls -l
total 7644
-rwxr-xr-x 1 yeti yeti 7815081 2008-10-26 16:39 RealPlayer11GOLD.bin
[yeti@yetibox abs]$ ./RealPlayer11GOLD.bin
bash: ./RealPlayer11GOLD.bin: No such file or directory

Bash can't find the file really makes me comfused.

There's one thing that I think relates to this problem:
When executing "ls" under Emacs shell, it gives quite wired output.

[yeti@yetibox ~]$ ls
[0m[01;34mDesktop[0m  [01;34mabs[0m  [01;36marchives[0m  [01;34mstore[0m
[m[yeti@yetibox ~]$

but no problems under xfce4-terminal:
[yeti@yetibox ~]$ ls
Desktop  abs  archives  store
[yeti@yetibox ~]$

Any sugestions?

[solved]
The wired characters in emacs shell seem to be color control code. using "ls --color=never" can get a normal output.

Last edited by yetihym (2008-10-26 14:08:39)

finferflu

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Re: [solved]Why "no such file or directory"?

Try with

 sh ./RealPlayer11GOLD.bin

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yetihym

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Re: [solved]Why "no such file or directory"?

Try with

 sh ./RealPlayer11GOLD.bin

doesn't work:
[yeti@yetibox abs]$ sh ./RealPlayer11GOLD.bin
./RealPlayer11GOLD.bin: ./RealPlayer11GOLD.bin: cannot execute binary file

pressh

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Re: [solved]Why "no such file or directory"?

./RealPlayer11GOLD.bin: ./RealPlayer11GOLD.bin: cannot execute binary file

did you make the file executable with 'chmod +x' ?

Allan

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Re: [solved]Why "no such file or directory"?

Are you using x86_64?  My guess is that is a 32bit binary and you have a 64bit system.  Could be entirely wrong...

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finferflu

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Re: [solved]Why "no such file or directory"?

It looks like it is:

[yeti@yetibox abs]$ ls -l
total 7644
-rwxr-xr-x 1 yeti yeti 7815081 2008-10-26 16:39 RealPlayer11GOLD.bin

I wonder if the file is not corrupt...

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yetihym

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Re: [solved]Why "no such file or directory"?

./RealPlayer11GOLD.bin: ./RealPlayer11GOLD.bin: cannot execute binary file

did you make the file executable with 'chmod +x' ?

yes:
[yeti@yetibox abs]$ ls -l
total 7644
-rwxr-xr-x 1 yeti yeti 7815081 2008-10-26 16:39 RealPlayer11GOLD.bin

and the file is ok. I've tried to execute it under LiveCD environment and it goes well.
I think maybe someting wrong with my mount option. Just guess.

yetihym

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Re: [solved]Why "no such file or directory"?

Are you using x86_64?  My guess is that is a 32bit binary and you have a 64bit system.  Could be entirely wrong...

I don't know if it's a 32-bit binary, maybe yes. but I've successfully installed it on 64-bit fedora.
even if it's not possible to install it on 64bit Arch, why didn't it give some other errors.

Allan

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Re: [solved]Why "no such file or directory"?

You can use "file RealPlayer11GOLD.bin" and look for "32" to see if it is a 32 bit binary.

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yetihym

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Re: [solved]Why "no such file or directory"?

Ar.....yes, it's a 32bit binary:
[yeti@yetibox abs]$ file RealPlayer11GOLD.bin
RealPlayer11GOLD.bin: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked (uses shared libs), for GNU/Linux 2.2.5, not stripped

so the problem is we can't execute 32-bit binary under 64bit archlinux?
I think this would be a bad thing since other distributions don't have this problem.

Allan

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Re: [solved]Why "no such file or directory"?

Arch x86_64 is pure 64bit so does not do multilib by default like many other distros do.  Look at the wiki for ways of running 32bit programs (lib32/chroot).

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