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 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
> Sent: Friday, December 27, 2019 3:07 AM
> To: Carol McAnulty
> Cc: scid-users
> 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 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
>
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