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thunderbird/thunderbird: No such file or directory is not true

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I unpacked the thunderbird tarball to ~/Builds I then executed 'Builds/thunderbird/thunderbird' and received:

bash: Builds/thunderbird/thunderbird: No such file or directory

I'm running debian 7.8. I checked the list of libraries on which thunderbird depends. All are installed. I executed 'head Build/thunderbird/thunderbird' and noted the first three characters were ELF. I tried 'file Build/thunderbird/thunderbird' and received:

Builds/thunderbird/thunderbird: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked (uses shared libs), for GNU/Linux 2.6.18, BuildID[sha1]=0x30e7fc4b0e46e863f89e31432a959f6bb949a7b1, stripped

This all puts the lie to the error message.

I unpacked the thunderbird tarball to ~/Builds I then executed 'Builds/thunderbird/thunderbird' and received: bash: Builds/thunderbird/thunderbird: No such file or directory I'm running debian 7.8. I checked the list of libraries on which thunderbird depends. All are installed. I executed 'head Build/thunderbird/thunderbird' and noted the first three characters were ELF. I tried 'file Build/thunderbird/thunderbird' and received: Builds/thunderbird/thunderbird: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked (uses shared libs), for GNU/Linux 2.6.18, BuildID[sha1]=0x30e7fc4b0e46e863f89e31432a959f6bb949a7b1, stripped This all puts the lie to the error message.

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it is bash saying the file is not there. What can anyone here do about how bash works or does not work?

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It looks like you are trying to run 32-bit Thunderbird on 64-bit Linux as they only list the 32-bit version on https://www.mozilla.org/thunderbird/all.html

Here is the 64-bit en-US Thunderbird 31.4.0 http://download.cdn.mozilla.net/pub/mozilla.org/thunderbird/releases/31.4.0/linux-x86_64/en-US/thunderbird-31.4.0.tar.bz2

If you prefer another language. http://download.cdn.mozilla.net/pub/mozilla.org/thunderbird/releases/31.4.0/linux-x86_64/

Modified by James

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there is a reason to use repositories... but I will not repeat it again.