Subj : Issue installing
To   : Nicholas Boel
From : Jeff Smith
Date : Sat Nov 25 2017 08:28 pm

Hello Nicholas,
> On Fri Nov 24 2017 11:01:16, Jeff Smith wrote to Nicholas Boel:

> Ok. Either way, I grabbed the archive and tried for myself with the same
> results. Even though those files are executable, they don't actually run and
> give a "Bad command of file name" error. I'm wondering if Kim created another
> step or the archive is just bad. Here's the steps I took:

I took basically the same steps with the exception of a different directory  
path (/home/bbs/bbbs/). And got the same result. 

> /home/axisd/tmp $ ./bcfg4 0
> Bad command or file name
> /home/axisd/tmp $ ./bbbs
> Bad command or file name

I did a "objdump -p /home/bbs/bbbs/bcfg4 | grep NEEDED" from a terminal window 
and got a response:

NEEDED   libpthread.so.0
NEEDED   libc.so.6

Which tells me that the BBBS executable needs or can't find the specified 
libraries.

A second thought was to check to verify that the executables were 32b or 64b 
executables. I used the command "file /home/bbs/bbbs/bcfg4". It turned out that 
the files were actually 32b executables. And the OS here is 64b Ubuntu. 

It should be noted that 64b Linux should be able to run a 32b executable. But 
in some cases the needed libraries do exist but can't be found.

> This was with an Archlinux VM on an HP Proliant server with an Intel Xeon
> processor.

It should also be noted that I haven't used or tried to install those older 
releases of BBBS in some years. I initially installed the Win32 version of  
BBBS and then later moved over to the Lin64 version.


Jeff

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