Subj : How Linux and Windows installs differ
To   : McDoob
From : deon
Date : Wed Dec 15 2021 02:06 pm

  Re: How Linux and Windows installs differ
  By: McDoob to All on Tue Dec 14 2021 07:41 pm

 > It took me entirely too long to figure out why my events were failing! And it all came down to exactly two characters in the command line: "./"

This is quite a common issue with those using Mystic.

 > In linux, for some obscure reason, most executables (definitely mutil and fidopoll) need to be preceded by the current dir, or "./" (ie ./mutil and ./fidopoll).

It's not obscure :)

Linux (and unix in general), looks for executables in your PATH by default, unless you specifically set your path to look for executables in your current directly (or a specific directory).

The "default path" is normally /bin, /usr/bin and if your root, /sbin, /usr/sbin. Of course it depends on your distro as well as to what they set the default PATH to.

If you want to fix mystic so that you dont need "./" then you have a couple of options (which I havent tested myself, since I dont use it).

* softlink mutil fidopoll to /bin or /usr/bin
* update your PATH to include where mystic is installed, and specifically where those executables are
* write a script that lives in /bin or /usr/bin with the name fidopoll, mutil, etc - and that script does some magic (if it needs to), before launching the those binaries in the appropriate direction


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