Re: [Texmacs-dev] Installing TeXmacs on Linux Smartphone

[Sam Liddicott]

On 08/03/11 20:55, Peter Koepke wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> I want to install TeXmacs on my Nokia N900 phone. The phones processor 
> and memory are powerful enough so that they should be able to run a 
> very decent TeXmacs. The N900's operating system is Maemo 5 which is a 
> Linux distribution derived from Debian (http://maemo.org)
>
> I tried to install TeXmacs according to the directions on the TeXmacs 
> homepage: Download > Binaries
>
>     gunzip -c TeXmacs-[version]-[your system].tar.gz | tar xvf -
>     export TEXMACS_PATH=[installation directory]
>     export PATH=$TEXMACS_PATH/bin:$PATH
>
> This works OK. But when I type
>
>     texmacs &
>
> I get errors like
> ....texmacs.bin: line 1: syntax error:"(" unexpected
>
> On my Ubuntu PC the same procedure runs fine.
>
> Could this be a shell problem? The X Terminal of the N900 is a BusyBox 
> v1.10.2 which seems to be an "sh"-shell. The PC has a full bash shell.
>
> Also I installed the little Debian distribution "Easy Debian" 
> (http://wiki.maemo.org/Easy_Debian) and got similar results. Easy 
> Debian also has an "sh"-shell.
>
> I would appreciate any comments and suggestions. 

I'm guessing - but I wonder if the binary you downloaded suits the 
architecture/processor on your phone; and that the executable form was 
not recognized so the binary was passed to the shell to run - which 
failed as it is not a shell script.

Did you consider that you might need to compile for your phone? (perhaps 
using easy debian on your phone as the compile environment)

Sam