Subject: Re: Getting Seti Program to work in Linux
From: Adam Price (adam@oldchildrensbooks.com)
Date: Mon Dec 20 1999 - 20:50:04 MST
At 9:30 PM -0600 12/20/99, Roy Koch wrote:
>My Yellowdog Linux is working just fine My big problem is getting some
>of the programs to run "Executable files" the last one I tried to run
>was "Seti" from http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/ I know this is not
>a Yellowdog problem I learned that just because a program is a Linux
>program does not mean that it will run under the Yellowdog environment.
>Will someone help me out?
Forgive me if this is too basic:
Any precompiled programs (or binaries) will have been compiled for a
particular kind of computer. To use any program, you either have to
find a binary that was built (compiled) for your machine (Yellowdog
Linux or LinuxPPC) or you have to compile yourself. If it says it is
a BINARY for Intel Linux, it won't work. For instance: the
Applixware demo won't work. RealPlayer won't work.
Compiling yourself isn't too tough. Instead of downloading
things called "xxxxxx.bin.tgz" download "xxxxxxxx.src.tgz" Untar it
with "tar -zxvf xxxxxxxxx.src.tgz" and enter the new directory called
"xxxxxxxxxx" Here you will find either a README or an INSTALL file
(or both) that will tell you what you need to do to compile
(/build/make)
As far as SETI@HOME goes, it does run on LinuxPPC, and there
are probably binaries out there. The latest I heard was that you
could run it, but it you can't get the cool graphics. Search the
mailing lists at www.linuxppc.org for a recent discussion of linuxppc
(and consider also getting on the linuxppc-user list. The answers
don't tend to be as unilaterally high-quality as those here, but they
come faster.)
Good luck,
Adam
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