I am developing a Meego/Harmattan application, in my package there is a file x.dat that I need to write in it using my executable foo app, the Debian package succeeds and installs x.dat in /opt/foo/bin but when I debug, the application foo refuse to fopen the file successfully for a subsequent fwrite, Is this related a missing Aegis manifest entry?, what is the correct sentence of that entry and is it done manually?
Note: I tried without success to use different path for the installation of the data file x.dat, this includes trying /home/user.
Thanks in advance,
Your application does not have permission to write to /opt as it is run as user. You have to put the file in /home/user/.yourapp/ and chown it to user:user in the postinstall script. (You could also chown the file right in /opt but it is not recommended)
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I've been reading about building RPMs, and the process is quite complex. Is there any program/software that works like this:
Download tar.gz file. Extract to directory
cd into directory
Run
RPM file is output into the directory
Does any such program exist? It seems as if it should. After all, when I run make, make install etc, I don't need to specify spec files, provide locations for where the software has to be installed. So why should I have to do all that for creating RPMs?
I've tried using checkinstall, but I keep getting errors like "Directory not found: /root/rpmbuild/BUILDROOT/hello-2.10-1.x86_64/usr"
So is there an easier way?
No. There is no easier way.
Sometimes upstream provide 'make rpm' target. Sometime checkinstall works. But often you have to create the spec file manually.
BTW that error from checkinstall reveals two things:
you are running that command as root. That is very very unwise.
you should create few build directories. Run command rpmdev-setuptree it will create them for you.
Download binary packages on https://www.playframework.com/documentation/2.0/Installing gives me a play-2.0 folder with play exec file. However running play on that same directory using console returns
play: command not found
My environment is MAC and I tried
chmod a+x play
while running into the same problem
Can someone give me a guide on the installation process?
When we run a command, the shell look for this file (command) in a list of directories (folders). This list of directories is stored in a enviroment variable called PATH. If you want to see the values inside PATH. You can run:
echo $PATH
Note that the folders are separated by :.
The problem you are facing is because the shell can't find a dir that contains the file play. This happens because the play's dir is not in PATH
You can add play's dir to your PATH by running
export PATH=$PATH:/path/to/your/play/dir
This is a temporary thing. After you exit your shell session you will loose it. To make it permanent you need to edit the .bash_profile file in your home folder and add this command in the end of the file and save it.
I don't know anything about PERL first of all. I know very limited html. My assignment is to upload a .pl file (provided to me) to my cg-bin dir on my web server, then make the file executable. I had to manually create a cgi-bin dir into my public_html dir. I uploaded the .pl file. How do I make it executable?
chmod a+rx /path/to/your/file.pl
You may want to check out the chmod man page as well. Just type
man chmod
in your terminal.
Manually creating the cgi-bin directory probably isn't going to work. The web server needs to be configured to recognise the directory as well. And we can't help you with that as we don't know which web server you are using.
As others have said, you will need to chmod
Also (depending on webserver, which you haven't tolYou need to put the path to your Perl executable in the first line of your script:
#!/bin/perl
This will be particular to your server though - you'll need to ask your admin or teacher what it should be for you.
I'd like to install a PHP extension on a bluehost shared site; specifically the MongoDB driver. Since pecl is unable to write to the primary server directory that has all the installed extensions, I'd like to install the mongo.so file to a directory I specify under my home. The closest article I found on the web was:
http://www.site5.com/blog/programming/php/how-to-setup-your-own-php-pear-environment/20090624/
However, after following the steps when I use the "pecl install mongo" command, it still keeps trying to install to bluehost's central directory on the server.
According to my web host's technical support team, utilising the pecl installer attempts to install the extension server-wide rather than under your account only. My web host doesn't allow server-wide installations in their shared environment for security reasons and because they want to keep their fleet universally the same across the board. I suspect your host is the same.
However, they did suggest I download, configure and install the pecl package (pecl_http) in my account only (rather than server-wide) via the following manual process:
$ cd ~/
$ wget http://pecl.php.net/get/pecl_http
$ tar -zxvf pecl_http.tar.gz
$ cd pecl_http
$ phpize
$ ./configure --prefix=~/bin
$ make
$ make test
$ make install
A successful install will have created extname.so and put it into the
PHP extensions directory. You'll need to edit php.ini (in my case,
this was a copy of the standard php.ini file that I placed in the same
folder as the script using the extension) and add an
extension=extname.so line (in my case, extension=http.so) before you can use the extension.
http://www.php.net/manual/en/install.pecl.phpize.php
Note that the tilde character (~) in the above code refers to the home directory of the current user (e.g. /home/username on my host's server).
Issues you may run into
When using the tar command, a "cannot open: not a directory" error
appeared as pecl_http had been downloaded without a file extension.
This was easily corrected:
mv pecl_http pecl_http.tar.gz
When using the make install command, a "cp: cannot create regular
file...: Permission denied" errror appeared. I resolved this issue
by changing the ext_dir for pecl...
pecl config-set ext_dir /home/username/bin/extensions
...and re-running make install. I also had to copy the http.so extension to /home/username/bin/extensions and then reference that location in my php.ini file:
extension_dir = "/home/username/bin/extensions"
this sounds like you don't have root access to your server. if your need to compile anything you must be have root access permission to server, or maybe you must be one of the sudoers.
I'm using Solaris 10, ksh. Whenever I do a ./configure, I get the error "ksh: ./configure: not found"
When I do a "where configure", nothing is found.
How do I "install configure"?
./configure means that you want to run an executable called configure in your current directory (signified by a .). I'm guessing you're trying to build and install from source, and the directions say to do the standard ./configure; make; make install. You should do that from the top-level directory of the source you downloaded and unpacked:
$ cd /path/to/source
$ ./configure
$ make
$ make install
"./configure" means "run the program configure from the current directory". That is, you need to cd to the directory that configure lives in before attempting to run it like that.
As for where configure might be found, it's usually at the root of whatever source package you're trying to build.
I'm not a Solaris guy, but the configure script should be within your current directory before you execute it. I am assuming you're trying to build something. If it's a project of your own, take a look at GNU autoconf. (I have no idea if this a part of Solaris or not.) It's part of M4.
If it's a project that you downloaded, untar/unzip/unpack it and then cd to its directory before running the configure script.
I had to run a command for another directory; and then that popped everything up :)
In case someone else comes across this specific issue, I'm trying to install the Perl-Php plugin on a Solaris machine. Initially, there is no configure file; instead you have to find where your "phpize" is located -- for me it was /opt/webstack/php/5.2/phpize, run it while you are still in the "perl-php-plugin" folder, and then configure will appear.
Then you can ./configure :)
Thanks to everyone who responded.