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File or directory not found - FLUKA software installation

tt flag

I am trying to install the FLUKA software from the binaries. The file for FLUKA and all its libraries were downloaded from the cern website in a .deb format. That provided me with a .deb file in the downloads folder that I then extracted to a folder I made named fluka, and that folder contains 3 files as evident by this output of ls -la ~/fluka:

total 20 
drwxrwxr-x 4  moiz moiz 4096  4 april 11:03 . 
drwxrwxrw- 17 moiz moiz 4096  4 april 11:03 .. 
drwxr-xr-x 2  moiz moiz 4096 30 march 20:15 control 
drwxr-xr-x 4  moiz moiz 4096 30 march 20:15 data 
-rw-r--r-- 1  moiz moiz 4    30 march 20:15 debian-binary

There isn't an installation file rather it was a binary package that needs to be executed to get the software.

When I try to generate the executables using the command dpkg -i ./fluka_4-3.2.x86-Linux-gfor9_amd64.deb, I get an error:

root@moiz-VirtualBox:~# dpkg -i ./fluka_4-3.2.x86-Linux-gfor9_amd64.deb
dpkg: error: cannot access archive '/root/fluka/fluka_4-3.2.x86-Linux-gfor9_amd64.deb': No such file or directory

The binary is in 64 and required fortran which I have downloaded. However it still says file of directory not found.

I am new to Linux, so if there are any rookie beginner mistakes like not opening the terminal correctly or anything else please tell those too because its very likely its gonna end up being a dumb mistakes.

PS. I also have superuser privilages so its not that either. Given using the command sudo -i and I am running Ubuntu in virtual box machine.

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vn flag

Do not unpack the .deb file. Just download the file to any location. Let's say you're in the directory /home/moiz.

wget https://flukafiles.web.cern.ch/flukafiles/fluka-4-3.2/fluka_4-3.2.x86-Linux-gfor9_amd64.deb

Now, run the dpkg command properly:

sudo dpkg -i ./fluka_4-3.2.x86-Linux-gfor9_amd64.deb

And the package manager will install the application for you.

Moiz khokhar avatar
tt flag
it seems like the not debian format error was due to an incorrect download I will download it again and try once more
Artur Meinild avatar
vn flag
Do try one more time - and maybe afterwards, you could clean up your question, leaving out unneeded parts. That would be a nice thing to do! The core issue seemed to be that you unpacked the `.deb` archive while you shouldn't have done so.
Artur Meinild avatar
vn flag
Well, if you focus the question down to the core, I'll remove my downvote, and I'm pretty sure others will as well..
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