Does Linux_iso2opl really work in Linux?

[JoeTorres]

I have downloaded this file: http://openps2loader.info/8/downloads/Linux_iso2opl.zip but when I tried to execute iso2opl the following error appeared: "bash: ./iso2opl: cannot execute binary file"
The file has read and execution permissions for my user. My distribution is Debian Squeeze 6.0.1a. I had to use the Windows binary one with WINE, but I want to use a Linux native application.

Thanks in advance

[mrcordas]

Really what's available on page OPL, gives this problem.

but I compiled the code from the OPL, and it works perfectly.
test it here if it works.

[JoeTorres]

The one that you attached here does work. Thank you very much.

[JNABK]

On the OPLv0.8 (USB Game Installing and Formatting) page, there is both a Linux and Windows link for opl2iso and iso2opl apps.

Do both of those Linux apps not work on Linux?

I was sure i got them from the repository already compiled, so if they dont work could other Linux users confirm if they work or not and i will replace them if they dont work for anyone. But i would need a Linux user to compile them since i dont have Linux setup anywhere on my PCs. I downloaded the one here by mrcordas just incase.

[JoeTorres]

I downloaded both files from that page, they don't work, either opl2iso or iso2opl. When I use them it happens what I described in the first post. The file provided by mrcordas worked for me without problems.

[JNABK]

I downloaded both files from that page, they don't work, either opl2iso or iso2opl. When I use them it happens what I described in the first post. The file provided by <b>mrcordas</b> worked for me without problems.

I dont doubt you, i just want to confirm its the same for others, since this has been here for a while and its the first i've read of them not working. I thought i got them either from the repository pre-compiled or from one of the developers as i cant compile for Linux myself.

I dont have any Linux experience and dont want to leave an app that nobody can use, but if others have no problems, i dont want to replace it and find they now have a problem with the replacement.

[mrcordas]

actually both applications downloaded from the repository does not work.
How to use more windows and occasionally Linux, I tested just now.
and two applications that I compiled worked perfectly.

[dlanor]

I dont doubt you, i just want to confirm its the same for others, since this has been here for a while and its the first i've read of them not working. I thought i got them either from the repository pre-compiled or from one of the developers as i cant compile for Linux myself.

Though I'm not a Linux user myself (I've tried it a little, but never liked it), I've come to understand that the fabled mutual compatibility of Linux systems is just that. A fable and nothing more...

It is only at source level that the compatibility can be said to be even near full, so a proper Linux-adapted source code for a program should compile on any Linux system to a well running localized version of that program. But this does not mean that you can just move one such binary from one Linux system to another one and expect it to run equally well there (unless those systems are closely related).

This is one of the reasons why some Linux applications are not distributed as binaries, but only as source code.

I dont have any Linux experience and dont want to leave an app that nobody can use, but if others have no problems, i dont want to replace it and find they now have a problem with the replacement.

Since different 'flavors' of Linux exist I guess it makes sense to add a new Linux version for each such flavor, instead of replacing any of them. Thus we could end up with an entire collection of such binaries, each recommended for a different Linux flavor.

Best regards: dlanor

[JoeTorres]

Since different 'flavors' of Linux exist I guess it makes sense to add a new Linux version for each such flavor, instead of replacing any of them. Thus we could end up with an entire collection of such binaries, each recommended for a different Linux flavor.

Best regards: dlanor

I disagree with you, since the file would be a simple binary file without dependencies, it is not necessary to make several versions for several 'Linux flavors'. On the other hand, I'm not a programmer, so I could understand just a few lines of the code. In a case that the Linux version requires dependencies I will shut my mouth.

[dlanor]

I disagree with you, since the file would be a simple binary file without dependencies, it is not necessary to make several versions for several 'Linux flavors'. On the other hand, I'm not a programmer, so I could understand just a few lines of the code. In a case that the Linux version requires dependencies I will shut my mouth.

Perhaps the particular binary you use does work on many 'flavors', but that is not a general rule for all Linux programs. And I am pretty sure that the other one must have worked for someone as well, as it would hardly have been included here without someone testing it first. Though that must obviously have been done on a Linux system incompatible to yours.

Best regards: dlanor