Re: executable trouble
You downloaded it wrong. That github url Dave shared with us needs to be
cloned. I cloned it on this machine and have the whole directory here.
Jude <jdashiel at panix dot com> "There are four boxes to be used in
defense of liberty:
soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
-Ed Howdershelt (Author, 1940)
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On Sat, 11 Mar 2023, K0LNY_Glenn wrote:
> It tells me it is not a directory, that is why I then tried running the
> file.
> Glenn
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jude DaShiell" <jdashiel@panix.com>
> To: "K0LNY_Glenn" <glenn@ervin.email>; "D.J.J. Ring, Jr." <n1ea@arrl.net>;
> <debian-accessibility@lists.debian.org>
> Sent: Saturday, March 11, 2023 1:47 PM
> Subject: Re: executable trouble
>
>
> You want to git clone that package then get into the nano-vnaclone
> directory it's an actual directory. read requirements.txt and install
> what you can in that file. Then try make deb in that directory to make a
> debian package. I have no idea if this will work so make deb 2>&1 |tee
> make.log may be a better choice.
>
>
>
> Jude <jdashiel at panix dot com>
> "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty:
> soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
> -Ed Howdershelt (Author, 1940)
>
> .
>
> On Sat, 11 Mar 2023, Jude DaShiell wrote:
>
> > Why not try cat nano-vnasaver | strings | less and find what shows up?
> > The pipe through strings will only pass strings to less so your screen
> > doesn't get messed up. If one of the first lines in that file is
> > something like #!/usr/bin/env python then this is a python package and
> > maybe source code too in which case will need compiling.
> >
> >
> >
> > Jude <jdashiel at panix dot com> "There are four boxes to be used in
> > defense of liberty:
> > soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
> > -Ed Howdershelt (Author, 1940)
> >
> > .
> >
> > On Sat, 11 Mar 2023, K0LNY_Glenn wrote:
> >
> > > Hi David,
> > > I have no idea how to compile something.
> > > It only unzips to a file called
> > > nanovna-saver
> > > Maybe I can run py and nanovna-saver?
> > >
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: "D.J.J. Ring, Jr." <n1ea@arrl.net>
> > > To: "K0LNY_Glenn" <glenn@ervin.email>
> > > Cc: <debian-accessibility@lists.debian.org>
> > > Sent: Saturday, March 11, 2023 1:22 PM
> > > Subject: Re: executable trouble
> > >
> > >
> > > I looked at GIT HUB https://github.com/NanoVNA-Saver/nanovna-saver and
> > > I don't find a binary file for Debian, you will have to compile it
> > > yourself.
> > >
> > > Also it looks like it's a python program. There are ways of installing
> > > python programs that others might be able to tell you about, I don't
> > > remember how it's done but I've done it in the past.
> > >
> > > DR
> > > N1EA
> > >
> > > On Sat, Mar 11, 2023 at 2:05?PM K0LNY_Glenn <glenn@ervin.email> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Well I updated the zip file from github, and unzipped it, and did the
> > > > chmod
> > > > +x thing, and got three different errors,
> > > > One said something about gnu not found
> > > > and another said elf not found, and the third said:
> > > > syntax error, unterminated string.
> > > > I tried to direct it to a txt file to send here, but trying the
> > > > command
> > > > and
> > > > a greater sign or a pipe only gives me a blank txt file.
> > > >
> > > > Glenn
> > > > and
> > > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > > From: "K0LNY_Glenn" <glenn@ervin.email>
> > > > To: <debian-accessibility@lists.debian.org>
> > > > Sent: Saturday, March 11, 2023 12:13 PM
> > > > Subject: executable trouble
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Hi All,
> > > > I am still trying to get nanovna-saver to work on Debian bullseye.
> > > > I don't know if this computer is an i386, and maybe this program is 64
> > > > bit,
> > > > but it has both for windows, but only one file for Linux.
> > > > The instructions say to:
> > > > list of 1 items
> > > > . If using binaries on Mac or Linux you have to chmod +x nanovna-saver
> > > > after
> > > > unzipping as executable flags get lost with zip.
> > > > list end
> > > > So I did that, then I ran:
> > > > sudo updatedb
> > > > Then I ran sudo /home/lenny/./nanovna-saver
> > > > and I get the error:
> > > > -bash nanovna-saver cannot execute binary file exec format error
> > > >
> > > > Does anyone have an idea about the error?
> > > > Thanks.
> > > >
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
>
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