[Bf-webcontent] Runs out of box?

[Nkansah Rexford]

OK Brecht,

For me, Ubuntu 12.04, through to 13.10, running chmod +x to run blender is
necessary. ( I don't clearly remember doing that for 13.10, but I might
have done that involuntary as I know that's how it is )

I extract using the default archive manager that comes with Ubuntu.

A typical example for a a software that running that command is necessary
is sublime extracted from the tar.gz.

In fact, without entering that command, nothing shows. It just doesn't run
and there pops up no dialog to inform whatever. Thus, it really can be
confusing as to what is going on.

As you say, if it can be fixed from the programming level, then I think
that'll be nice. However, I find similar behaviour with other softwares not
because the software isn't written with something, but because on the end
user, a certain permission must be achieved to execute something.

I'm wondering how that can be solved from the programming perspective.

plus.google.com/+Nkansahrexford
On Nov 12, 2013 9:36 PM, "Brecht Van Lommel" <brechtvanlommel at pandora.be>
wrote:

> We should understand why this happens before adding instructions to do
> chmod +x, it might be something that can be fixed in the Blender
> release itself or only happens on very specific systems. If we don't
> understand why it happens these kinds of issues keep accumulating and
> we have to add more and more instructions.
>
> What we as developers really need to know is, if you download Blender
> 2.69, on which system do you need to do chmod +x after extracting it
> with which command or software? I've seen this advice given a few
> times but then it ends up being a different issue, like missing OpenGL
> graphics drivers.
>
> Brecht.
>
> On Tue, Nov 12, 2013 at 9:57 PM, Nkansah Rexford
> <nkansahrexford at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Check this
> >
> http://linuxg.net/how-to-install-blender-2-68-on-ubuntu-linux-mint-debian-fedora-opensuse-mageia/
> >
> > And this
> >
> http://linuxg.net/how-to-install-blender-2-67b-on-ubuntu-linux-mint-debian/
> >
> > Blender doesn't run out of the box really out of the box always.
> >
> > My point is, after extracting the archive containing blender, it doesn't
> > always run straight out of the box, at least, a last step to make it
> really
> > run is necessary.
> >
> > It may be a permission requirement on the part of the user and not
> blenders
> > fault, but a new user who reads blender works "out of the box" and can't
> get
> > the "blender" file to run after extracting won't suspect his end to be
> the
> > issue.
> >
> > plus.google.com/+Nkansahrexford
> >
> > On Nov 12, 2013 8:16 PM, "Gottfried Hofmann" <
> gottfried at blenderdiplom.com>
> > wrote:
> >>
> >> On 11/12/2013 05:00 PM, Nkansah Rexford wrote:
> >> > On the download page, about how to install blender, I read this:
> >> > "Blender will run straight out of the box"
> >> >
> >> > However, I find typing chmod +x blender in terminal before I'm able to
> >> > run the executable for the first time in Ubuntu.
> >>
> >> It ran out of the box on all my Ubuntu PCs. Always.
> >>
> >> > I'm currently on Ubuntu 13.10 and didn't have to do that though. But
> for
> >> > others on 13.04 or below, if clicking the exe doesn't work they might
> >> > consider it as a bug.
> >>
> >> There is no .EXE for Linux. Did you download windows version and run it
> >> through wine by accident?
> >>
> >> > Blender doesn't run straight out of the box, always.
> >>
> >> It should, it's mostly statically linked.
> >>
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