<div>On 16/03/2008, Dotan Cohen <<a href="mailto:dotancohen@gmail.com">dotancohen@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 0; margin-left: 0; margin-left: 0.80ex; border-left-color: #cccccc; border-left-width: 1px; border-left-style: solid; padding-left: 1ex"> On 16/03/2008, Owen Townend <<a href="mailto:owen.townend@gmail.com">owen.townend@gmail.com</a>> wrote: > > Heya, > Just downloaded and installed it in a vm. The package name is autopanopro, > even for the demo version. > > owen@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@arabica:~$ dpkg -L autopanopro|grep bin > /usr/bin > /usr/bin/AutopanoPro > owen@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 </blockquote></div> Hey, Yeah, decompress the .tar.gz file they offer, alter the script file and it works for me in an XUbuntu VM. By 'works' I mean the program runs, opens and presents me with a window with no errors. I haven't actually used it. cheers, Owen.