[YLUG] beta eudora

[Nigel]

Hi Zoe

Thanks for these suggestions.

All the commands give the results you have listed (below). The last one
$ ldd /usr/local/eudora/eudora-bin
not a dynamic executable

HOWEVER, since it worked for you under Ubuntu 8.04, I now feel 
assured that there is a way through eventually and I'm going to
POSTPONE this attempt, put Linux on my laptop, which is where I 
really want it, and install Eudora on the laptop later, once I have 
Ubuntu working there. This will take a bit of time (see my next post).

I guess I'll come back to this Eudora question later.

Thanks again
Nigel




At 19:44 14/09/2008, you wrote:
>On Sun, Sep 14, 2008 at 12:12:20PM +0100, Nigel wrote:
> > Hi
> >
> > This is probably a dead simple thing as I am a linux newbie.
> >
> > Since Eudora is going open source, I am trying to get Eudora running
> > under Ubuntu, to create an easier transfer path for  eventually
> > migrating all my computing from windows. I use Eudora extensively
> > under windows, so I would like, eventually, to import my eudora
> > mailboxes and address books into linux.
> >
> > I got a beta version of eudora for linux at
> > http://www.eudora.com/betas/. I followed instructions and did
> >
> > sudo tar -C /usr/local -xvf <place where you downloaded the file>
> >
> > which created a folder called eudora, with various files and
> > subdirectories. I followed instructions and did
> >
> > sudo ln -s /usr/local/eudora/eudora /usr/local/bin/eudora
> >
> > [to be honest, I was amazed I got that far]
> >
> > The instructions say I should now be able to type "eudora" at any
> > command prompt, and the program should open. When I type eudora I get
> >
> > /usr/local/eudora/run-mozilla.sh: 442: 
> /usr/local/eudora/eudora-bin: not found
> >
> > and the program does not open.
>
>I tried installing it all on my Ubuntu 8.04 system and it worked
>first time.
>
> > but when I look in /usr/local/eudora I can see eudora-bin sitting
> > there. I also can't open eudora by running any of the obvious files
> > in /usr/local/eudora
> >
> > Any ideas what is going on?
> >
> > Please phrase any help in a form a simpleton can understand, as I am
> > unfamiliar with ubuntu and with command prompt syntax.
>
>I'd first verify that the files in question are really there and
>executable:
>
>$ file /usr/local/eudora/eudora
>/usr/local/eudora/eudora: POSIX shell script text executable
>
>$ file /usr/local/eudora/eudora-bin
>/usr/local/eudora/eudora-bin: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386,
>version 1 (SYSV), for GNU/Linux 2.6.8, dynamically linked (uses shared
>libs), stripped
>
>$ ls -al /usr/local/eudora/eudora
>-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 5136 2008-02-21 04:57 /usr/local/eudora/eudora
>
>$ ls -al /usr/local/eudora/eudora-bin
>-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 13759016 2008-02-21 05:23 /usr/local/eudora/eudora-bin
>
>
>Let us know what you get as output from those commands, and if they
>seem to work, what you get from:
>
>$ ldd /usr/local/eudora/eudora-bin
>
>
>--
>  -- zoe
>
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