Re: Fun with upgrades - not

[David Kastrup]

"Phil Holmes" <address@hidden> writes:

>>> address@hidden:~/lilypond-git/build$ fontforge --version
>>> bash: /usr/local/bin/fontforge: cannot execute binary file: Exec
>>> format error
>>
>> What does
>>
>>    file /usr/local/bin/fontforge
>>
>> state?  This sounds like you are trying to run a 64bit executable on a
>> 32bit kernel, or a 32bit executable on a system unequipped to do so
>> (missing essential libraries and loaders).  Or even have a complete
>> mismatch of architecture.
>
> Looks right:
>
> address@hidden:~/lilypond-git$ file /usr/local/bin/fontforge
> /usr/local/bin/fontforge: ELF 64-bit LSB executable, x86-64, version 1
> (SYSV), dynamically linked (uses shared libs), for GNU/Linux 2.6.15,
> BuildID[sha1]=1c01d759ac10c3f83d000f8e3d36cbea63f909e5, not stripped
>
> It's 32 bit OS.  Any idea how to replace it with a 32 bit version?

See Alexander's reply: /usr/local/ is the normal directory for
installing stuff compiled by the user.  You probably needed a newer
version of fontforge than the system-distributed one at one time and
compiled and installed it there yourself.

So you'll need to clean out the fontforge installation in /usr/local/ in
order to let the system version take over.  How to best do that depends
on how it got installed there in the first place.

-- 
David Kastrup