cd to the directory where xt sits and try executing it with ./ in front of
it.
./xt
Helm.
Edenyard wrote:
> Here's another one for you Linux experts! In my continuing attempts
> to get a linux running for Arachne, I've now succeeded in getting
> Slackware to go. Even X runs now, thanks to answers I've got from this
> list - thanks, chaps!
>
> Now I've hit another snag on the path to internetting. I wanted to
> install Unixtree (apparently the best Xtree lookalike for Linux). I've
> got the tar.gz file and uncompressed it into a directory /xtg off my
> own directory /home/gdp but all I get when I try and run its
> executable (xt) is this message:
>
> bash: /home/gdp/xtg/xt: No such file or directory
>
> If I do 'ls -l', there's xt (in green with an * beside it) as large
> as life. I've tried adding /home/gdp/xtg to my PATH and all that, but
> it doesn't make any difference. There are a few other executables
> (dispkeys, dispchrs, etc.) that get installed into the /xtg directory
> and none of those will run either. I get the same message from bash.
> The permissions are set to -rwxr-xr-x for all these executables, so I
> assume that I ought to be able to run them.
>
> None of my Linux books seem to cover this. so I'm obviously doing
> something extremely stupid - but what??
>
> Please can someone shed some light before this machine hurtles out of
> a first-floor window. I'm desperate!
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Gerald.
