<html><body><span style="font-family:Verdana; color:#000000; font-size:10pt;">Jim, <br><br>It's been a while since I've been able to really work with the Unix OS but, you probably need to run the installer as ROOT<br><br>go to a command prompt and put in: SU then type your Root Password (SU stands for Super User, in computers that would be God.) Be careful though. Root can delete it's own partition it has so much authority.<br><br>Usually installing from a command line is done with a . in front of the file name. For example .setup.py<br><br>or if your in that folder .setup should work<br><br>Hope this helps.<br><br>Eric M. Gildersleeve ~ KD7CAO<br>
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Subject: [drats_users] Asus Eeee PC dRats install<br>
From: "Jim Harris" <jim.harris1@verizon.net><br>
Date: Fri, September 26, 2008 9:53 am<br>
To: <drats_users@lists.danplanet.com><br>
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</style> <table id="INCREDIMAINTABLE" width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0"> <tbody> <tr> <td id="INCREDITEXTREGION" dir="ltr" style="font-size: 12pt; direction: ltr;" width="100%"> <div>Dan,</div> <div> </div> <div>Thanks so much for getting back to me with some details.</div> <div> </div> <div>I apologize in advance at the length of this post, as it has a lot of the details of what I have gone through. I don't usually post most of anything to forums, and do not know much about the etiquette for such long posts.</div> <div> </div> <div>As far as getting the unit into desktop mode, you can actually access a terminal window easily by just doing a ctrl-alt-t</div> <div> </div> <div>This gets you into a terminal window. I did that, and tried to tar the source files. For some reason, I got a bunch of errors doing the un-zip. The window is not big enough to see the beginnings of the errors, and I am not sure of the Linux pipe command to try and capture the output into a log file for you. The errors I see on the end of the screen before it stopped looked like this:</div> <div> tar:d-rats-0.2.6/d-rats/sessionmgr.py: Cannot utime: Operation not permitted</div> <div> <div> tar:d-rats-0.2.6/d-rats/callsigns.py: Cannot utime: Operation not permitted</div> <div>........ Etc,</div> <div>All of the error messages were like this.</div> <div>The last two lines were:</div> <div> tar:d-rats-0.2.6/: Cannot utime: Operation not permitted<br> tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors</div> <div> </div> <div>So, I then tried a different thing. I went back into the GUI and got into the file manager and did the tar fucntion within the file manager, which does the unzipping for me. I was able to then get everything uncompressed into a directory. The file structure I ended up with included a folder: d-rats-0.2.6, which contained:</div> <div> COPYING d_rats/ d-rats forms/ images/ setup.py<br></div> <div>I then went back to the terminal, and tried to run the d-rats (while in the d-rats.0.2.6 folder level). I tried just typing d-rats, and got:</div> <div> bash: d-rats: command not found</div> <div> </div> <div>I could not get it to run at all. Next, I went back to the file manager (I know, I keep going back to the 'comfort zone'), and tried double-clicking on d-rats. This brought up a text editor that showed the script file you wrote that starts out with:</div> <div> #!/usr/bin/python</div> <div> #</div> <div> # Copyright 2008 Dan Smith..........</div> <div> </div> <div>Seeing the first line, I went to investigate the files to see if I could find that path (I did do this in the terminal...I do remember some of the Linux commands...). I looked in /usr/bin, and could not find /python.</div> <div> </div> <div>Now, I did try earlier to see if I had python installed , and when I type python, I do get into a python prompt, so I assumed it was there.</div> <div> </div> <div>By the way, this is the python prompt:</div> <div> </div> <div>Python 2.4.4 (#2, Apr 5 2007, 20:11:18)</div> <div>[GCC 4.1.2 20061115 (prerelease) (Debian 4.1.1-21)] on linux2</div> <div>Type "help", "copyright", credits" or "license" for more information</div> <div>>>></div> <div> </div> <div>So...not sure what to do next, I thought I would try to install one of the packages you said would probably be needed. I tried the python-serial first. At the prompt in the d-rats-0.2.6 directory, I typed:</div> <div> apt-get install python-serial</div> <div> </div> <div>What I got in return was:</div> <div> E: Could not open lock file /var/lib/dpkg/lock - open (13 Permission denied)</div> <div> E: Unable to lock the administraion directory (/var/lib/dpkg), are you root?</div> <div> </div> <div>So, I then changed to the root directory, and tried it again...and got the exact same error message.</div> <div> </div> <div>At this point, I wondered if running the terminal window in easy mode was getting in the way, so I did go ahead and enter the full desktop mode (which also requires a re-boot). I then tried to run d-rats, as well as the install of python-serial, but got exactly the same results in this mode.</div> <div> </div> <div>So, as you see, I made a fair amount of progress, in simple terms, but got into a lost state.</div> <div> </div> <div>Again, I apologize for the large post, and hope it is not improper to do so...if so, please let me know where I should be communicating such details.</div> <div> </div> <div>I thank you for your patience in helping me, as I know you, and others, have your hands full trying to get the email and other things working in d-rats.</div> <div> </div> <div>73,</div> <div> </div> <div>Jim</div> <div>WA3NOA</div></div></td></tr> <tr> <td id="INCREDIFOOTER" width="100%"> <table width="100%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"> <tbody> <tr> <td width="100%"><br></td> <td id="INCREDISOUND" valign="bottom" align="middle">Ji<br></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><hr>_______________________________________________<br>
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