[TriLUG] SOLVED: Re: Vexing Command Line problem

[Paul Boyle via TriLUG]

First -- thanks for the all the suggestions. I got the software
back running.

Here is a summary of what I did.  It's probably pretty basic stuff for
most of you on this list, but I have always enjoyed using Linux command
line tools to do what I need to get done.

After installing the ELF loader, the program ran, but failed due to
missing libraries.  To reconstitute my system I did the following to
install the proper 32bit packages:

1) Got list of dependencies from the vendor's rpms
(Using tcsh) on the user account where the vendor's rpms are stored:
foreach rpm ( *.rpm )
foreach? echo "Generating dependencies for $rpm ..."
foreach? yum deplist $rpm | grep provider | grep 'i.86' | awk '{print
$2}' >> packages.dep foreach? end

(sorry for the line wrapping)

2) sort and pick out the unique dependencies:
sort packages.dep | uniq > tmp.dep && mv tmp.dep packages.dep


3) On the computer which was having the problem:
yum install -y `cat packages.dep`

I tried 'yum install -y < packages.dep' but it didn't like that.

After doing this the vendor's software works normally now.

Again, thanks for everyone's help.

Paul

On Tue, 31 Jul 2018 16:06:13 -0400
Paul Boyle via TriLUG <trilug at trilug.org> wrote:

> On Tue, 31 Jul 2018 15:42:51 -0400
> Aaron Schrab <aaron at schrab.com> wrote:
> 
> > 
> > Try to verify that the interpreter shown there (in the above case
> > that's /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2) exists. You should even be able
> > to run that directly and get a usage message.  
> 
> The vendor's software is 32bit, and I am running x86_64 hardware.  As
> I mentioned in a previous email, it seems like a lot of the 32bit
> libraries got wiped out (and the ELF loader as well).
> 
> I just used yum to install the  
> glibc-2.17-222.el7.i686.rpm package which contains the ELF loader.
> Now when I run, programs in /usr/local/bn/bin, e.g.
> 
> bruker:/~% /usr/local/bn/bin/python2.7
> Python 2.7.7 (default, Mar 23 2017, 19:08:45) 
> [GCC 4.4.5 20101112 (Red Hat 4.4.5-2)] on linux2
> Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
> >>>  
> 
> the program runs!
> 
> Paul
> 
> 



-- 
Paul D. Boyle, Ph. D.
Manager, X-ray Facility
Department of Chemistry
Western University
London, ON N6A 5B7
Canada
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