Re: [tlug] Ubuntu 10.04 - kernel update snafu

[Brian Chandler <brian@example.com>]

Many thanks for responses. It is a considerable relief after days of 
search-try-divert-search-backtrack...

On 2014-06-19 00:29, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
> Brian Chandler writes:
>   > My immediate problem is that I am involved in a largish translation
>   > project, of some school arithmetic materials. And this is supposed to be
>   > done in Memsource. So I downloaded a file called "Mem_something.run",
>   > and after a bit of fiddle executed the version said to be for Ubuntu 12
>   > (listed here:
>   > http://wiki.memsource.com/wiki/MemSource_Editor_Installation ). Despite
>   > being 15MB, it simply does nothing.
>
> Can you be more specific about what kind of nothing it does?  For
> example, how long does it take to do nothing?  Does it produce any
> output or error messages when doing nothing?  Did you click it to make
> it do nothing, or did you run it in a terminal where it did nothing?

Just tried the other one...

in ~/Downloads
ls -las...
    4 drwxr-xr-x  2 brian brian     4096 Jun 19 00:28 .
    4 drwxr-xr-x 44 brian brian     4096 Jun 18 23:14 ..
14876 -rw-r--r--  1 brian brian 15229442 Jun 19 00:28 
MemsourceEditor-4.151-ubuntu-10.04.run
15140 -r-x------  1 brian brian 15502955 Jun 18 16:54 
MemsourceEditor-4.151-ubuntu-12.04.run
brian@Grieg ~/Downloads $ chmod 500 M*10.04*
brian@Grieg ~/Downloads $ ./M*10.04*
brian@Grieg

In essentially no time at all, absolutely nothing happens. Which may be 
fairly efficient, but not much use. I did try clicking the Ubu12 one as 
well.

I sort of expect this to start some gui installation-looking thing, 
though the file name doesn't include 'install'. It might need sudo ?, 
except that all the possibilities I can imagine would end with an error 
message.

I will read the other comments more carefully. Gotta stop in a bit for 
NHK Russian (a good place for Russians to practice Japanese). More to 
come; privyet, spasibo.

Brian