PodNova - start

[expatCM]

Quite a basic question but the solution escapes me ...

I installed PodNova 2.3.1 on Ubuntu 7.04. Easy. Put it into a directory on /opt and it worked on install since I could download and listen to podcasts.

The questions is really easy .... How do I now launch the program?

At a command prompt I have tried PodNova, podnova, /opt/pod/podnova and so on but nothing sees to work. When I get an error message it says Failed to execute child process "/opt/pod/podnova" (no such file or directory). Since both the file and directory exist .... I do not understand ...

PodNova do not have any installation instructions / FAQ / help / forum on their site which is a bit odd and so I wonder quite how to fix this ... has to be easy since there are not a lot of people reporting problems...
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[smolloy]

If you installed it with apt-get it might already be somewhere in the programs menu. Have a look round there to see where it might be hiding.

If not, I'd try,

sudo updatedb
locate podnova

That should show you where the executable is hiding. (tip -- the updatedb command may take a while if you've never done it before)

[expatCM]

Sadly the package is not available with apt-get install or synaptic ... I installed from a tar.gz.

I ran sudo updatedb (thanks for the suggestion) and like you said it took a minute or two. Then ran locate podnova and the following was returned

/opt/PodNova-2.3.1-linux-py25/podnova-install.nsi
/opt/PodNova-2.3.1-linux-py25/podnova.icns
/opt/PodNova-2.3.1-linux-py25/resources/logo-podnova.png
/opt/PodNova-2.3.1-linux-py25/resources/podnova.ico
/opt/PodNova-2.3.1-linux-py25/resources/podnova_tray.ico
/opt/PodNova-2.3.1-linux-py25/~podnova.icns
/opt/PodNova-2.3.1-linux-py25/podnova.sh
/home/user/.podnova
/home/user/.podnova/downloadhistory_for_ff747c62f802e186755ba300941799 cb.csv
/home/user/.podnova/downloadhistory_for_2e55b0720815711314818383e3e758 81.csv
/home/user/.podnova/downloadhistory_for_56200effeaaf322de1f933f85cc00c 9e.csv
/home/user/.podnova/downloadhistory_for_68942bcea13242d76298744ac999c2 68.csv
/home/user/.podnova/downloadhistory_for_c5f5812078b471578de2cdbcf7c140 c9.csv
/home/user/.podnova/podnova_user_settings.ini
/home/user/.podnova/downloadhistory_for_aa0d06c17ad32a056968a95838e4a4 01.csv
/home/user/.podnova/downloadhistory_for_871ed0c8dc3845999eb00010609dd5 27.csv
/home/user/.podnova/downloadhistory_for_381811c30f2a22a2f9212b18a0df77 61.csv
/home/user/.podnova/lastrun

Where should I now focus and on what?

[smolloy]

Good. Can you post the output of,

ls -l /opt/PodNova-2.3.1-linux-py25/

I'm trying to find out if podnova.sh is executable -- if it is, it should say something like the following in the output,

-rwxrwxr-x user groups podnova.sh

Can you tell me how you ran the program the first time?

[expatCM]

It is not quite the same as you were expecting .... I see

-rwxr-xr-x 1 user user 37 2007-04-24 20:29 podnova.sh

I ran the program the first time during the install process .... at the end of the install process the program appeared and so I clicked on the icon to download a podcast and then clicked on another icon to listen to it. It worked ...

[smolloy]

Cool -- it looks like that program is executable (I can tell cos of the x's in the output of the ls command).

Try,

cd /opt/PodNova-2.3.1-linux-py25
./podnova.sh

If that works do this,

sudo ln -s /opt/PodNova-2.3.1-linux-py25/podnova.sh /usr/local/bin/podnova

After that you should be able to start it by typing podnova at the command line from any directory. After that, you could try to make yourself a cute little desktop icon by copying and editting a pre-existing icon.

[expatCM]

nearly..... but not quite ...

The program opened ... well done

But if I enter podnova at the command line I get

python: can't open file 'PodNova.pyc': [Errno 2] No such file or directory

[smolloy]

Hmmm..... So running podnova.sh from the opt/podnova... directory worked, but a softlink didn't.

Maybe it always needs to be run from the opt/podnova.. directory? You could write a little shell script that would change to the right directory, and then run podnova.sh.

The shell script could be the following,

#!/bin/bash
# Dumb little script to run podnova

cd /opt/PodNova-2.3.1-linux-py25/
./podnova.sh

Save that as "podnova" in your /home/user folder. Then,

sudo rm /usr/local/bin/podnova
sudo mv /home/user/podnova /usr/local/bin/
sudo chmod +x /usr/local/bin/podnova

Then try running podnova from the command line.

[expatCM]

Brilliant. That worked

So pleased to get this working. Thank you so much for your help, it is really appreciated

[smolloy]

Brilliant. That worked

So pleased to get this working. Thank you so much for your help, it is really appreciated

Glad I could help.