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from: Chad Adams
date: 2017-11-25 08:24:22
subject: Re: Issue installing

Thanks for telling me rather! 

Cheers and happy thanksgiving. 

On 02:22 25/11 , Chad Adams wrote:
>I guess that's where I was pulling my hair. I read the docs and never found
>anything saying what libraries were needed to just get it to run. 
>
>I understand the message was from it looking for the executable. Not a big
>deal, but tat library is not default installed on Ubuntu server (maybe other
>flavors if Debian based) but without knowing I would never know.
>
>Bbbs has good documentation for the most part but the install is lacking. It
>literally had no troubleshooting that I found and just assumes it installs
>fine. There are many packages of libraries out there that in current days
>might be needed.
>
>Not bashing anything just giving BBbS some feedback. Do what you like. BBBS
>is somewhat complicated and this is a tough issue if you don't know BBBS such
>as myself being a new user to it. And everyone on here didn't think of it
>either, or even know, becau
>People asked about my permissions. I wrote at least 5 times permissions were
>right. 
>
>But it's all working. Just wanted to provide some feedback in maybe something
>that would help new users. Only reason I posted my experience. 
>
>And that's for Telling me about file which lead me to the issue.
>
>On 00:32 25/11 , mark lewis wrote:
>>
>> On 2017 Nov 24 21:27:50, you wrote to All:
>>
>> CA> I had a library missing that bbbs relies on. Bbbs doesn't give a very
>> CA> good error message [...]
>>
>>FWIW: that really isn't BBBS giving that error message... it is but it
>isn't...
>> it is the library code that emits that... something very similar is seen on
>>pure 64bit systems when trying to run 32bit binaries on them... basically it
>is
>> complaining that it cannot find the shared library that it needs so in a
way,
>>the "file not found" response is correct... it just
doesn't tell you which
>>file... sadly, there's not much the maintainer can do about that other than
to
>>try to document what external libraries are needed to execute the program...
>>
>>)\/(ark
>>
>>Always Mount a Scratch Monkey
>>Do you manage your own servers? If you are not running an IDS/IPS yer doin'
it
>>wrong...
>>... Begin at the beginning and go on until you come to the end; then stop.
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>>
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