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   Message 1,949 of 2,762   
   Chad Adams to All   
   Issue installing   
   25 Nov 17 08:24:22   
   
   Thanks for telling me rather!    
      
   Cheers and happy thanksgiving.    
      
   On 02:22 25/11 , Chad Adams wrote:   
   >I guess that's where I was pulling my hair. I read the docs and never found   
   >anything saying what libraries were needed to just get it to run.    
   >   
   >I understand the message was from it looking for the executable. Not a big   
   >deal, but tat library is not default installed on Ubuntu server (maybe other   
   >flavors if Debian based) but without knowing I would never know.   
   >   
   >Bbbs has good documentation for the most part but the install is lacking. It   
   >literally had no troubleshooting that I found and just assumes it installs   
   >fine. There are many packages of libraries out there that in current days   
   >might be needed.   
   >   
   >Not bashing anything just giving BBbS some feedback. Do what you like. BBBS   
   >is somewhat complicated and this is a tough issue if you don't know BBBS such   
   >as myself being a new user to it. And everyone on here didn't think of it   
   >either, or even know, becau   
   >People asked about my permissions. I wrote at least 5 times permissions were   
   >right.    
   >   
   >But it's all working. Just wanted to provide some feedback in maybe something   
   >that would help new users. Only reason I posted my experience.    
   >   
   >And that's for Telling me about file which lead me to the issue.   
   >   
   >On 00:32 25/11 , mark lewis wrote:   
   >>   
   >> On 2017 Nov 24 21:27:50, you wrote to All:   
   >>   
   >> CA> I had a library missing that bbbs relies on. Bbbs doesn't give a very   
   >> CA> good error message [...]   
   >>   
   >>FWIW: that really isn't BBBS giving that error message... it is but it   
   >isn't...   
   >> it is the library code that emits that... something very similar is seen on   
   >>pure 64bit systems when trying to run 32bit binaries on them... basically it   
   >is   
   >> complaining that it cannot find the shared library that it needs so in a   
   way,   
   >>the "file not found" response is correct... it just doesn't tell you which   
   >>file... sadly, there's not much the maintainer can do about that other than   
   to   
   >>try to document what external libraries are needed to execute the program...   
   >>   
   >>)\/(ark   
   >>   
   >>Always Mount a Scratch Monkey   
   >>Do you manage your own servers? If you are not running an IDS/IPS yer doin'   
   it   
   >>wrong...   
   >>... Begin at the beginning and go on until you come to the end; then stop.   
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