[CMake] No Such File or Directory

[David Zemon]

The first reply was perfect. All I needed was libc6:i386. So bizarre, but I'm glad you guys could help.

David

On Aug 18, 2014 2:13 AM, Jakub Zakrzewski <jzakrzewski at e2e.ch> wrote:
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> -----Original Message----- 
> From: CMake [mailto:cmake-bounces at cmake.org] On Behalf Of Alan W. Irwin 
> Sent: Sonntag, 17. August 2014 01:51 
> To: David Zemon 
> Cc: cmake at cmake.org 
> Subject: Re: [CMake] No Such File or Directory 
>
> On 2014-08-16 15:02-0500 David Zemon wrote: 
>
> > Hello, 
> > 
> > After downloading the 3.0.1 binary Linux distribution of CMake, I am 
> > running into the following bash error: 
> > 
> >   *david at fresh-ubuntu:~/**PropWare/util$* cmake 
>                                             ^ ==> that is a prompt followed by a blank so it looks like there is no actual path in front of your cmake invocation. 
>
> >   bash: /home/david/cmake-3.0.1-Linux-i386/bin/cmake: No such file or 
> >   directory 
>
> I am pretty sure this issue is due to a very long-standing Linux security feature where you have to specify executables using a path in front of the name, i.e., from that directory invoke cmake with 
>
> ./cmake 
>
> or from anywhere invoke it with the full pathname, e.g., 
>
> /home/david/cmake-3.0.1-Linux-i386/bin/cmake 
>
> Hope this guess is right. 
>
> Alan 
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> Hi, 
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> I think you didn't read careful enough. David tries once withou and second time with full path. Furthermore, the `which` command can find cmake, what means it's somewhere in the PATH, so there's no need to specify full path by invokation (do you specify full path when invoking `grep` for example? - I don't think so.) 
>
> So apparently system cannot find some file, but it's not the CMake executable itself. Marcel Loose's answer makes a lot of sense to me. 
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> -- 
> Gruesse, 
> Jakub 
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