A software issue

[cj]

Eberhard Roloff wrote:
> Hi Cyber Term,
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> Cyber Term wrote:
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>> Nope, it isn't! In fact, I did install the Longman software (it was an .sh file, for which I used sh command), everything went on well and finally its icon appeared on my desktop, but it just doesn't even start whatsoever!
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Also, did it give you an error message when you tried to run it? or did 
it just sit there and do nothing?
--cj
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> Please try to answer linux-like BELOW the previous post. Otherwise it is
> very hard to follow the progress of the discussion.
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> In regard to your problem:
> Can you find out what the icon on your desktop is supposed to do? In KDE
> You would simply right click on the icon and choose "properties" and
> then see, which command is (meant to be) executed.
> I assume, gnome will handle this similarly.
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> After you got this, open a terminal and type the exact command there.
> My hope is that the resulting error message might shed some light on the
> cause of your problem.
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> Also it could possibly reveal whether your software is meant to be used
> with Wine, which is a software-layer that vendors and users frequently
> use to use their windows applications on Linux.
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> kind regards
> Eberhard
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