Raul >What is "jconsole" then? i just called it a symlink as it is a synthetic >directory link outside the chrome books regular finder capability. One can not >follow that link using, eg, the cd tool.
>There are a lot of directories that do not show up in the CB's finder GUI. For >lack of a more precise term i am calling them symlinks. >In the ls tool the "symlinks" were color coded blue. Regular directories >(/icons is the only one in the !/j807/bin directory) green, and files white. >Except for the color coding: >~/j807/bin$ ls icons jbrk jhs profile.ijs installer.txt jconsole libj.so profilex_template.ijs ~greg -- from: Raul Miller <[email protected]> reply-to: [email protected] to: Beta forum <[email protected]> date: 15 August 2018 at 14:29 subject: Re: [Jbeta] Fwd: Trying for a linux j app on a Chromebook I did not see any details on a symlink in your writeup here. I did see a missing libedit.so.2, so that needs to be on your system. If a symlink is involved in finding that, have you tested that the symlink is pointed at the right place? Thanks, --- Raul -- from: greg heil <[email protected]> to: Beta forum <[email protected]> date: 15 August 2018 at 14:24 subject: Fwd: Trying for a linux j app on a Chromebook >i tried to install j807 on my Samsung ChromeBook Plus (CB+) which is only the >second after the PixelBooks to get that capability (Linux apps) in their >Canary channel. They have import and unpacking tools using the Debian package >system... but as there are no .deb files. i was looking for a way to unpack it >without such automation... >Bill suggested i use theRasbery Pi version, as it is an ARM device. >Following instructions at: https://code.jsoftware.com/wiki/System/Installation/Zips >i did the Raspberry Pi j807 protocol on my CB+. After downloading and >unpacking the (one) 807 RPi tar i had: >~/j807$ ls addons jconsole.sh readme.txt tools bin jqt.sh system updatejqt.sh >~/j807$ jconsole.sh -bash: jconsole.sh: command not found Whoops! Well try: >~/j807$ ./jconsole.sh bin/jconsole: error while loading shared libraries: libedit.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory Well... >~/j807/bin$ ls icons jbrk jhs profile.ijs installer.txt jconsole libj.so profilex_template.ijs the directory (actually a symlink) is there, but... >~/j807/bin$ cd jconsole -bash: cd: jconsole: Not a directory >so it seems the CB+ is not able to follow that kind of symlink, and it is a >blob which is hard to follow manually, and appears to point inside of system >directories. These are harder to get to on CB´s due to the sandbox they are >put in (outside of developer mode). Any suggestion? Perhaps .deb packaging now? ~greg krsnadas.org ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
