Instaling software (DWSIM or GHEMICAL on CAELINUX) it says
installing then asks to install again

with DWSIM it had worked before, only it had dependencies

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On 6/20/23 12:51, vjp2.at@at.BioStrategist.dot.dot.com wrote:
> Instaling software (DWSIM or GHEMICAL on CAELINUX) it says
> installing then asks to install again
>
> with DWSIM it had worked before, only it had dependencies
>

How old is your fixed disk?
Or are you just trolling again as you did for months in comp.os.Linux.misc?

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On 6/20/2023 3:51 PM, vjp2.at@at.BioStrategist.dot.dot.com wrote:
> Instaling software (DWSIM or GHEMICAL on CAELINUX) it says
> installing then asks to install again
>
> with DWSIM it had worked before, only it had dependencies
>
>

https://dwsim.org/index.php/download/

windows (64-bit) macos (64-bit) linux (32/64-bit)

Installer Package Disk Image File 64-bit .deb
(213 MB) (160 MB) (202 MB)

Portable Package 32-bit 7z-compressed
(159 MB) Wine Package (332 MB)

NET4.6.2+/
Mono 6.8+

*******

After installing the .deb (which you've already done)...

Type this in:

/usr/local/bin/dwsim # The executable is not in your path right now.
/usr/local/bin/dwsim-classic # Try an absolute path and attempt to run it.

The library it uses for support is in

/usr/local/lib/dwsim 790,908,921 bytes

The WINE package is used if running a specially packaged
Windows version under the WINE environment. There is a
README file in the .7z package.

**********************************************************

ghemical - when software is this old, it becomes a challenge
for anyone (other than the developer) to get it running.

http://bioinformatics.org/ghemical/ghemical/index.html

"The current stable version 2.00 was released 2006-04-xx.
It is tested to work best with the following other packages/programs:

libghemical-2.00
OpenBabel-2.0.0 (optional)
glib-2.6.0
gtk+-2.4.0
gtkglext-1.0.5
libglade-2.4.0
"

The problem is, the current release is 3.0 and the library set
for this source package is not stated. Sure, it has ./configure
to help you build the package, and some of those work very well,
other ./configure base packages are not helpful enough to actually
successfully build software. A good "configure" requires craftsmanship.

http://bioinformatics.org/ghemical/download/release20111012/

To do that manually and align it, that's what I call a "domino build",
because each of those packages has dependencies that need to be built,
and you really need to build up an entire tree.

When I built my very first browser from source, it took me 40 hours work,
to construct the tree to make it happen. That's because I was on
a Unix box, with no community tree on it, so everything had to be
hand-hewn. But I did it. Because I badly needed a browser, and
all we had was Lynx.

Paul

In <u6t379$2hl5q$1@dont-email.me> Bobbie Sellers:

[Snip...]

> are you just trolling again as you did for months in comp.os.Linux.misc?

+1

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Paul, much obliged for your kind efforts.

After trying every setting on Ubuntu Software Center I stumbled upon GDebi
which was more verbose and told me it was dependency errors.

So I now know what I need to do

But I am baffled because I had previously installed the same Ubuntu
(CAELinux2020) on the same machine and USC did complain about
dependencies. (Someone on Reddit told me which packages i needed to
preinstall but I never got to it entirely). THis time USC just asked for root
password, ran the progress bar then took me back to the install button.
I guess now it doesn't matter. But it was odd.

USC is otherwise fine in getting me "approved" software.

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Looking into how mono-project is the answer and the problem

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mono-complete fixed dwsim just fine

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