Hello,
I am trying to install & run from the tar.gz on an Ubuntu Linux system ( 2.6.24-24-generic; i686; hardy heron) and I think I followed the instructions, but the GUI won’t run. It says: could not launch menu item, failed to execute child process .avastgui.
Also, when I try to run .avastgui from the command line I get: “No protocol specified” . So… what is wrong here? Thanks for any assistance!
Why don’t you download the .deb file and install it (or run Synaptics)?
You should run “avastgui”, not .avastgui. It’s just a shell wrapper, checking for library availability, setting ld.so variables, and calling the real “avastgui” binary, which lies outside your $PATH.
regards,
pc
First,
I don’t know anything about the .deb file or Synaptics. But I will try that if I can’t get the tar.gz file to work.
Also… the thing I tried to run was in fact ‘avastgui’ not ‘.avastgui’. The command actually typed was ‘./avastgui’ because avastgui was not in my $PATH. Hence the message as indicated above.
… and that’s the problem. the file that should be run is /usr/bin/avastgui (tiny shell wrapper), not the binary itself!
the binary has plenty of dependences, and the shell is a resolver for them (where to use system library and where the one which is bundled with it).
regards,
pc