[FWTools] path is not working

[Chaitanya kumar CH]

Baffling. Perhaps someone else can help you.

2011/11/17 Antony Chrysochoou <achrysochoou at hotmail.com>

>  Hi,
>
> I downloaded and successfully extracted and installed FWTools 3.0.1 in my
> /home/ directory.
>
> I am trying to set the path from my root directory (i guess it does not
> matter where I am) using the following command: export
> PATH=$PATH:/home/FWTools-linux-i686-3.1.0/bin_safe/
>
> and then if I try to run ogr2ogr commands, I get the following error:
> /home/FWTools-linux-i686-3.1.0/bin_safe/ogr2ogr: 9:
> /home/FWTools-linux-i686-3.1.0/usr/bin/ogr2ogr: not found
>
> even though I can see that the ogr2ogr file is there both on /bin_safe/
> and /usr/bin/ directories
>
> Any suggestions?
>
> Thanks again and again!
>
> *Antony Chrysochoou*
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
> Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2011 20:36:10 +0530
> Subject: Re: [FWTools] bin/python: not found
> From: chaitanya.ch at gmail.com
> To: achrysochoou at hotmail.com
> CC: fwtools at lists.maptools.org
>
> Antony,
>
> A few others had the same problem without a solution. I suggest using the
> latest package (FWTools 3.x) from http://home.gdal.org/fwtools/ or better
> yet, use a repository as suggested in
> http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/wiki/DownloadingGdalBinaries#Linux
>
> 2011/11/17 Antony Chrysochoou <achrysochoou at hotmail.com>
>
>  Ok,
>
> I did it again in my /home/user directory and again I cannot install it.
> In the FWTools-2.0.6 directory there is a bin folder that contains a file
> named 'python'. I am attaching it in case you want to check if it is the
> correct file.
>
> thanks again!
>
> *Antony Chrysochoou*
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
> Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2011 17:14:04 +0530
>
> Subject: Re: [FWTools] bin/python: not found
> From: chaitanya.ch at gmail.com
> To: achrysochoou at hotmail.com
>
> Antony,
>
> Just check if the file bin/python was created and I don't mean /bin/python
>
> IMHO, It's not prudent to do this kind of stuff in the root folder.
> Try your home directory. /home/<your_userid>
>
> 2011/11/17 Antony Chrysochoou <achrysochoou at hotmail.com>
>
>  Hi,
>
> thanks for replying, i used a simple unzip command >tar xzvf ...
> and I do not see any error happening when extracting files..Is there a
> special way to see if there was an error? I think it would show it if a
> file was not extracted properly..
> I downloaded and copied the zipped file in my server /<root> and then run
> a tar xzvf command to extract the files. But I cannot see anything wrong
> happenign in these steps. Do you think something else is going wrong? I can
> always redo the whole thing.
>
> Thanks!
>
> *Antony Chrysochoou*
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
> Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2011 16:42:06 +0530
> Subject: Re: [FWTools] bin/python: not found
> From: chaitanya.ch at gmail.com
> To: achrysochoou at hotmail.com
> CC: fwtools at lists.maptools.org
>
>
> Antony,
>
> The bin/python in line 33 refers to the python binary file in the bin
> directory created by extracting the FWTools tar file, not /bin.
> Check if the tar file is extracted correctly and the files are created OK.
>
> 2011/11/17 Antony Chrysochoou <achrysochoou at hotmail.com>
>
>  Hi,
>
> I am sorry if I am posting in the wrong email, but I haven't found a link
> for a forum or discussion interface yet...
> I downloaded and unzipped the FWtools but when I cd to the directory and
> type ./install.sh, it throws an error
> ./install.sh: 33: bin/python: not found
>
> This is weird because python is installed and runs fine. Have you come
> accross this error before?
>
> Thank you for your time and effort.
>
> Kind regards,
>
> *Antony Chrysochoou*
>
>
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> Chaitanya kumar CH.
>
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> Best regards,
> Chaitanya kumar CH.
>
> +91-9494447584
> 17.2416N 80.1426E
>
>
>
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> --
> Best regards,
> Chaitanya kumar CH.
>
> +91-9494447584
> 17.2416N 80.1426E
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