[Xastir] Re: cant start program

[Curt, WE7U]

On Tue, 29 Jan 2008, Anthony Bernardo wrote:

> I got all the way through the install and then typed:
>
> cd ~
> ln -s /usr/local/bin/xastir xastir
>
> then tried to start the program by typing
> xasitr&
>
> and it comes up and says No such file or directory...I
> checked to see if it is there and it is, what do I do
> to get this running???

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In any case, I'm assuming your spelling error above was just a
mistake in the e-mail and that you typed the proper one when you
tried it.

A little Unix history:
In Linux and Unixes, it's considered bad practice to have '.' (dot)
in your PATH.  It's a security risk if there are other people with
access to your system.

This means that if you have a command in your home directory that
you've created, like the above, it doesn't know where to find it
unless you specify the path to the file.

Run it like this:

    cd
    ./xastir &

The "./" portion is telling it the path where it can find the
executable.

You can fix this in a variety of ways.  Sometimes I add ~/bin/
directory to my path and add scripts and links there, then the
loader can find them.  Sometimes I add aliases to my shell.

You can also add /usr/local/bin to your path, then you don't need
the symlink that you created at all.

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