GTAMS analyzer?

[Alfred]

Hi I've not used Gtams; however I've installed Googleearth. It is
started in terminal. You open the terminal type in googleearth, and then
it runs. There is a folder for it, but nothing in the menu. In the olden
days there would be Basic Programs, that would show up, in menus and
then there were Machine Language programs that would be hidden. It might
be something similar like that. X is the stuff that runs above the
Command line. In Windows it would be a Dos Program. 

In the early days of Experimenting with Linux, Firewall programs would
run, but there was nothing in a menu, because there was no FRONTEND for
it. Without something like a frontend, you can't interact in X with the
program. It might be doing what it is supposed to do, but, without the
command line, you might not be able to interact with it.

The second step ending in .sh builds the file or the program, what you
are doing there has something to do with installing it, not opening the
program and working it. The Shell will execute a command, and it does
not give you bells and whistles to let you know if it is working. There
is a Verbose where it might give you a hint. You could try just opening
the terminal, and then typing in the name of the program exactly, and it
might work now, that you have done step # 2.

I'm only beginning to learn the shell in Linux, so I can't give you much
more than that.

Alfred!
-----Original Message-----
From: NurseGirl <thealp+ubuntu at gmail.com>
Reply-To: The Canadian Ubuntu Users Community
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To: The Canadian Ubuntu Users Community <ubuntu-ca at lists.ubuntu.com>
Subject: GTAMS analyzer?
Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2008 18:16:36 -0500

Has anyone here used the gtams analyzer program? It's a gnustep
program, and I installed it and all the gnustep dependencies through
synaptic (I'm using 6.06). After I installed it, I couldn't find it in
any of the menus or on alacarte, so I went back to the sourceforge
page (http://tamsys.sourceforge.net). I followed the instructions
there:
To run tams do the following:

   1. Open a terminal
   2. Source GNUstep by typing ". /usr/lib/GNUstep/System/Makefiles/GNUstep.sh"
   3. Type "sudo open GTAMSAnalyzer.app"

No feedback at all from gnome-terminal. In theory, I know that means
that it's working, because otherwise there would be an error message.
But, no program window opens, either.

Any suggestions? Even if you haven't used this specific program, if
you have any knowledge of running Gnustep programs on Dapper, it'd be
helpful.

Thanks,
Nursegirl
Toronto, ON
6.06 on an x86