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elbarto

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Registered: 2009-01-31

Posts: 3

awesome: No such file or directory

Hey guys..

I'm pretty new with Arch but have been using Linux for a couple of years now.

I wanted to try Awesome, so I followed this guide to install awesome3 with pacman.
The installation seemed fine, I didn't get any errors. But when I try to execute awesome I get this error:

elbarto@tarantino:~$ awesome
bash: /usr/bin/awesome: No such file or directory
elbarto@tarantino:~$ ls -l /usr/bin/awesome
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 254660 2009-02-20 14:16 /usr/bin/awesome
elbarto@tarantino:~$

Just to be sure I installed SLIM and set my ~/.xinitrc to start do "exec awesome", but it didn't work. When I login it says that there was some problem and it couldn't start the session.

Any ideas? The file exists and the permissions seems fine, so I should be missing something somewhere else.

Thanks!

skottish

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Registered: 2006-06-16

Posts: 7,942

Re: awesome: No such file or directory

The only time I've ever seen this is if the binary is from the wrong architecture (ie. 64 bit instead of 32 bit). Are you on 64 bit and used the repo from that page? If you are, it's only 32 bit.

elbarto

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Registered: 2009-01-31

Posts: 3

Re: awesome: No such file or directory

Ohh I see hehe. That's my problem then.
I thought pacman would have warned me if the downloaded package was built for a different architecture.

skottish

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Registered: 2006-06-16

Posts: 7,942

Re: awesome: No such file or directory

Ohh I see hehe. That's my problem then.
I thought pacman would have warned me if the downloaded package was built for a different architecture.

Unfortunately it won't. This kind of thing can cause huge headaches if it's a system level library too.

elbarto

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Registered: 2009-01-31

Posts: 3

Re: awesome: No such file or directory

Thanks skottish. I installed the git version using yaourt.
The binary now seems to execute (of course as I'm running kde it throws an error), so I will try to restart X and see what happens.