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Datawarrior not starting on manjaro [message #1955]

Wed, 12 July 2023 11:33

HeadBanger
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Registered: July 2023

Junior Member

I am running manjaro 6.4.2-3 KDE plasma 5.27.6-1 with openjdk version "20.0.1" 2023-04-18.
After downloading the tar_gz and following the steps in the readme.txt I get the following errorcode upon launching datawarrior

execvp: Exec format error

unfortunately the error message does not give more than that.

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Re: Datawarrior not starting on manjaro [message #1956 is a reply to message #1955]

Wed, 12 July 2023 15:21

thomas
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Registered: June 2014

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I don't have Manjaro and cannot try, but a Google search revealed that sometimes you error appears on KDE in Manjaro, when scripts expect the bash, because the default is zsh. Can you add '#!/bin/sh' or '#!/bin/bash' (without single quotes) as a first line to your '/opt/datawarrior/datawarrior' script and try again?

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Re: Datawarrior not starting on manjaro [message #1958 is a reply to message #1956]

Thu, 13 July 2023 09:04

HeadBanger
Messages: 3
Registered: July 2023

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Both '#!/bin/sh' and '#!/bin/bash' (without the single quotes) work as a solution.

Thank you for the reply. Somehow it did not occur to also search for the error and plasma.

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