I have an executable paraview
in the directory ~/software/Para/bin/
and
I want to create a soft link in my home directory. I have tried like this but could not succeed.
sudo ln -s ~/software/Para/bin/paraview para123;
A soft link was created with this command but its not running my application. The same was happened for
sudo ln -s ./software/Para/bin/paraview para123
and also tried this
ln -s "/home/niyaa/software/ParaView-4.3.1-Linux-64bit/bin/paraview" para123
The error is
Error converting runtime path entry "./../lib/paraview-4.3" to real path: No such file or directory
echo hello world
you should see they do work. The problem must be somewhere else. What errors does it give? What is$?
after you run the./para123
link from$HOME
?./para123
is the executable now, ant there's no./../lib/paraview-4-3
relative to it. If you don't want to modify the paraview package, what you might want to do is forget about symlinks for now and instead use a simple script that runs the originalparaview
executable.