Its about 15 years since I've used Debian based systems so many quirks may have arisen. There should be no need to cd to scid and all commands will have a gui equivalent. In fact looking at the Bourne scripts they may launch a gui instance of scid - i.e. tkscid. I'll have a look into Xubuntu. Ill get back to you asap.
Maurice On 27/12/2019, Carol McAnulty <cmcanu...@hotmail.com> wrote: > Weird, I get this > [code] > cmcanulty@ubuntu1:~$ dpkg -L scid | grep bin > dpkg-query: package 'scid' is not installed > Use dpkg --info (= dpkg-deb --info) to examine archive files, > and dpkg --contents (= dpkg-deb --contents) to list their contents. > cmcanulty@ubuntu1:~$ > [code] > > Yet it certainly is installed as screenshot below shows. I also don't know > how to use scid commands. Do I first cd to scid in terminal and does scid > have to be running first? Thank you > > [cid:0e11e9cb-15f1-4120-8d85-12488bc50540] > Carol & Denny McAnulty > cmcanu...@hotmail.com > ________________________________ > From: Maurice McCarthy <mansel...@gmail.com> > Sent: Friday, December 27, 2019 3:07 AM > To: Carol McAnulty <cmcanu...@hotmail.com> > Cc: scid-users <scid-users@lists.sourceforge.net> > Subject: Re: [Scid-users] Questions > > Hi Carol, > > No problem. If you run the dpkg command to give you a list of files > installed by the Scid package (you may have to prefix this with sudo, > cannot remember) > > $ dpkg -L scid | grep bin > > You should get a list something like this : > > /usr/local/bin/pgnfix > /usr/local/bin/sc_eco > /usr/local/bin/sc_epgn > /usr/local/bin/sc_import > /usr/local/bin/sc_remote > /usr/local/bin/sc_spell > /usr/local/bin/scid > /usr/local/bin/scidpgn > /usr/local/bin/spf2spi > /usr/local/bin/spliteco > /usr/local/bin/tkscid > /usr/local/share/scid/books/Elo2400.bin > /usr/local/share/scid/books/Performance.bin > /usr/local/share/scid/books/gm2600.bin > /usr/local/share/scid/books/varied.bin > > The "local" folder may not used on your own system but I run OpenBSD > where a separate local partition is standard for installed programs. > The executable are all in the bin folder and of those only tkscid is > a compiled program. All others are scripts which can be read with any > text reader e.g. less or geany (colourises the text). The file command > can also sometimes be useful. > > $ file /usr/local/bin/pgnfix > /usr/local/bin/pgnfix: a /usr/local/bin/python2.7 script text executable > > $ file /usr/local/bin/scid > /usr/local/bin/scid: Bourne shell script text executable > > Reading the scripts will tell you what they do. > > Best Wishes > Maurice > > On 26/12/2019, Carol McAnulty <cmcanu...@hotmail.com> wrote: >> I use xubuntu linux and would be interested in seeing a list of the other >> tools available in scid for linux. Thank you >> >> Carol & Denny McAnulty >> cmcanu...@hotmail.com > _______________________________________________ Scid-users mailing list Scid-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/scid-users
