About the hard link

[yeosn]

Hello everyone!
I had installed a software, but the path not in environment variable, so, every time I want to start it must input its full path in terminal, it's too trouble. so, I had established a hard link like this :

ln /home/yeosn/programs/oald8/oald8 /usr/local/bin/oald8

but when I typed 'oald8' in terminal, it prompted "Cannot find oald8 runtime directory. Exiting." Why? How can I solve this problem?

 

[arochester]

Which distro are you using?

 

[yeosn]

Which distro are you using?

It is Linux mint.

 

[arochester]

Are you running 32bit or 64bit?

There are How-Tos for Debian and Ubuntu but it seems thin on Linux Mint.

http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?f=16&t=61164
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1745645

 

[yeosn]

Are you running 32bit or 64bit?

There are How-Tos for Debian and Ubuntu but it seems thin on Linux Mint.

Thanks for your patience! But I think the problem may be on the hard link, because when I typed the full path "/home/yeosn/programs/oald8/oald8" in the terminal, the application could be started normally, but when I typed the "oald8" only, it will prompt an error message.

 

[yeosn]

Are you running 32bit or 64bit?

There are How-Tos for Debian and Ubuntu but it seems thin on Linux Mint.

I am running 64bit OS，and the software is 32bit

 

[yeosn]

I am running 64bit OS，and the software is 32bit

I had found out the reason results in this problem. I should create a symbolic link instead, not a hard link

ln -s /home/yeosn/programs/oald8/oald8 /usr/local/bin/oald8

Thanks for your help!