What is new program name?

Dotan Cohen dotancohen at gmail.com
Sun Mar 16 07:04:27 UTC 2008


On 16/03/2008, Owen Townend <owen.townend at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Heya,
>   Just downloaded and installed it in a vm. The package name is autopanopro,
> even for the demo version.
>
> owen at arabica:~$ dpkg -L autopano|grep bin
> Package `autopano' is not installed.
>  Use dpkg --info (= dpkg-deb --info) to examine archive files,
> and dpkg --contents (= dpkg-deb --contents) to list their contents.
> owen at arabica:~$ dpkg -L autopanopro|grep bin
> /usr/bin
> /usr/bin/AutopanoPro
> owen at arabica:~$
>
> Strange thing is, /usr/bin/AutopanoPro is actually a directory, and it's
> empty.
> This is the way the installer intended too, from the deb file 'Included
> Files':
>
> ./
> usr/
> usr/bin/
> usr/bin/AutopanoPro/
>  usr/lib/
> usr/lib/AutopanoPro/
> usr/lib/AutopanoPro/AutopanoPro
> [snip]
>
> So I downloaded the .tar.gz file they have available.
>
> Copying the executable 'AutopanoPro' to the /usr/bin/AutopanoPro directory
> didn't fix the .deb installation, neither did replacing the directory with
> the executable from the .tar.gz
>
> Running the program extracted from the .tar.gz
> directly didn't work immediately either. The shell script
> they give to launch it throws a bad substitution error. I got it working in
> the end by using the extracted tar.gz and editing the script file
> AutopanoPro.sh as so:
>
> 4c4
> < if [ "${dirname:0:1}" != "/" ]; then
> ---
> > if [ `echo ${dirname} | grep ^\/` ]; then
>
> This achieves the same intent in a different way which works here.
>
> cheers,
>  Owen.

Have you been able to start the program at all? I have not.

Dotan Cohen

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