Scala under Linux

I just installed Linux, and downloaded scala-20-pc-linux, but when I
click on the Scala icon,nothing happens. Am I doing something wrong?

By the way, Manuel, did you get my CD and my record order?

>I just installed Linux, and downloaded scala-20-pc-linux, but when I
>click on the Scala icon,nothing happens. Am I doing something wrong?

Did you click on the binary program icon? Which desktop?
It's better to start it from a terminal window, then you will
see any error messages. I'm too lazy to write an installation
script. I use Gnome mostly and it's not difficult to set the
filetype associations by hand.
A common thing that might be wrong is that the current directory
is not in your LD_LIBRARY_PATH.
Type "env" and see if . is inside it.

>By the way, Manuel, did you get my CD and my record order?

No, did you order it from Huygens-Fokker? It's not me who
does that.

Manuel

--- In tuning@yahoogroups.com, manuel.op.de.coul@e... wrote:
> >I just installed Linux, and downloaded scala-20-pc-linux, but when I
> >click on the Scala icon,nothing happens. Am I doing something wrong?
>
> Did you click on the binary program icon? Which desktop?

I was using Gnome, but have swtiched to KDE.

I'm having a computer nightmare week, by the way, so Dan Stearns and
whoever else it was who wanted my music CD had better send their snail
mail address (to gwsmith@svpal.org) once again.

> >By the way, Manuel, did you get my CD and my record order?
>
> No, did you order it from Huygens-Fokker? It's not me who
> does that.

I sent it to you personally, along with $13 cash and my Christmas 2002
music CD. :)

--- In tuning@yahoogroups.com, "Gene Ward Smith <gwsmith@s...>"
<gwsmith@s...> wrote:

> I'm having a computer nightmare week, by the way, so Dan Stearns and
> whoever else it was who wanted my music CD had better send their snail
> mail address (to gwsmith@s...) once again.

gwsmith#svpal.org; replace the # with an @.

--- In tuning@yahoogroups.com, manuel.op.de.coul@e... wrote:

> >I just installed Linux, and downloaded scala-20-pc-linux, but when I
> >click on the Scala icon,nothing happens. Am I doing something wrong?
>
> Did you click on the binary program icon? Which desktop?

It doesn't seem to work under either KDE or Gnome.

> It's better to start it from a terminal window, then you will
> see any error messages.

It doesn't start in a terminal window either. No messages.

I'm too lazy to write an installation
> script. I use Gnome mostly and it's not difficult to set the
> filetype associations by hand.

I think you need a readme or install file, and perhaps a make file.

> A common thing that might be wrong is that the current directory
> is not in your LD_LIBRARY_PATH.

I don't seem to have one. Should I add something to my .bashrc file?

This is a very standard Linux, namely Red Hat, I've got, so if I have
problems you can be sure other people will.

Gene wrote:

>It doesn't start in a terminal window either. No messages.

Weird.

>I think you need a readme or install file, and perhaps a make file.

Well you're the first to report a problem like this.

>I don't seem to have one. Should I add something to my .bashrc file?

Please add
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=.:/usr/local/lib

You also could copy libgtkada-1.2.so.12 in the Scala directory to
/usr/local/lib

>This is a very standard Linux, namely Red Hat, I've got, so if I have
>problems you can be sure other people will.

That's what I use too and it runs fine on 7.2, 7.3 and 8.0 with me.

Manuel

--- In tuning@yahoogroups.com, manuel.op.de.coul@e... wrote:

> >I don't seem to have one. Should I add something to my .bashrc file?
>
> Please add
> export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=.:/usr/local/lib
>
> You also could copy libgtkada-1.2.so.12 in the Scala directory to
> /usr/local/lib

Thanks. One of these things, or both together, did the job.