[ubuntu-uk] Publishing to the software centre

[Colin Law]

On 23 April 2014 15:39, Gareth France <gareth.france at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 23/04/14 15:37, Alan James Jenkins wrote:
>>
>> Also try:
>>
>> which seaward
>>
>> If that shows /usr/bin/seaward your terminal is finding the command in
>> your path. Reason for the `file /usr/bin/seaward` was to determine whether
>> or not it was a valid symbolic link but tbh the ls -la /usr/bin/seaward
>> showed that it was a symlink to /usr/bin/CTS/seaward already so dunno why I
>> asked you to do that.
>>
>> If you call the script with its absolute path e.g:
>>
>> /usr/bin/seaward
>>
>> Does it work?
>>
>> On 23 Apr 2014, at 15:33, Colin Law <clanlaw at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> On 23 April 2014 15:22, Gareth France <gareth.france at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On 23/04/14 15:18, Alan James Jenkins wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Could you please give us the output of these commands:
>>>>
>>>> echo $PATH
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> /usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games:/usr/local/games
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> ls -la /usr/bin/seaward
>>>>
>>>> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 6844 Apr 23 15:09 /usr/bin/CTS/seaward
>>>
>>> What is that CTS doing there?
>>>
>>> Colin
>>>
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>>
> I've got it now thanks guys. It was an ownership issue. It's now packaged in
> a deb file and installing correctly.

Just so we can all learn from the problem, can you tell us why it would not run?

(I realised what the CTS was after I posted that question).

Colin