How does one decide where to un-zip a tar file ? I've downloaded one and placed it in my own directory but it has created USR and various sub libraries such as BIN.

In trying to run the executable, I'm getting

hercules: error while loading shared libraries: libherc.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

This module is indeed in a library within the structure that I created.

Does the direcories that were created have all the permission for you to able to read/write a file?

This is the file that the executable is complaining about

-rwxr-xr-x 1 stan users 111229 2009-05-12 09:22 libhercu.so

PWD shows this

/home/stan/usr/local/herc64/hercules-SVN-5345/bin

The library that libhercu.so is in is LIB under hercules-SVN-5345 - is that my problem here ?

Quick Solution:

In the terminal, type:

cd ~
mkdir -p .local
cd .local
cp -rf ~/usr/local/* ./
echo 'export PATH="$PATH":"$HOME/.local/bin"' >> ~/.bashrc
echo 'setenv PATH "$PATH":"$HOME/.local/bin"' >> ~/.cshrc
echo 'export LD_LIBRARY_PATH="$LD_LIBRARY_PATH":"$HOME/.local/lib"' >> ~/.bashrc
echo 'setenv LD_LIBRARY_PATH "$LD_LIBRARY_PATH":"$HOME/.local/lib"'  >> ~/.cshrc

hercules

Entered each of the lines - closed the terminal, reopened it - and -

stan@linux-3kun:~> hercules
bash: hercules: command not found
stan@linux-3kun:~>

Would you mind posting the results of executing the following commands?

echo "$PATH"
echo "$LD_LIBRARY_PATH"
ls "~/.local/bin"
ls "~/.local/lib"

I must defer on a response till I download the correct and complete Hercules package tonite. I located a .rpm version and all may be well as it did appear that some items were missing.

Afterwards all may be well this time. I will test, and followup with a response.

Thank you very much for your assistance.