flashing splash screen of newly installed program

[richum]

Hi,

I have recently installed a program called IDA-STEP (manually off the web) on my Ubuntu 10.0.4 system.

I unzipped the program folder to /usr/local/ida-step, and ran the executable to install (sudo ./ida-step) it.

Now, every time I want to run the program I have to type "sudo ./ida-step" from within the folder to begin the program.

However I also recently modified a copy of an existing *.desktop config file so that I can launch ida-step from the applications menu (and its in /usr/share/applications).

When I use this latter method to launch ida-step all I get is the programs initial splash screen flashing on and off (everything else in the background remains unaffected) - but the program never launches.

I can replicate this behaviour if I launch the program in the terminal by typing "./ida-step" (rather than "sudo ./ida-step" which works fine).

I am a newbie to linux/ubuntu so some help on this would be much appreciated.

Thanks,

Richard

[MikeTbob]

Hi!
I was just looking at their website and I did notice this line.

Note: For Linux you first have to extract the IDA-STEP archive into a folder before you can start the executable from there.

To me, that statement says the program must be run in a terminal window. Some programs are not meant to launch from the Desktop. I could be wrong however, so if anyone else has any ideas, feel free to chime in here.