I am trying to install a simple bar code generating app and research here suggests two choices; glabel and zint.
I had no luck with the rpm for zint from pbone but glabel is available from the Leap15.3 repo through yast so I installed it without difficulty or so I thought.
Unfortunately I cannot get it to run from cli. Am I getting senile or is something wrong. I assume the former and would appreciate some help please.
An earlier post from 2017 had a similar need and seems to have been successful with zint so I would like to try both if possible.
I think you should know us now long enough that you can be sure we now do not know what you tried. The answers might range from “I broke my fingers, how can I type a command” to “I got some error message which I keep secret from you”.
Please, where is the copy/paste between CODE tags of that cli trial???
This is the cli from when I tried to run glabels:-
alastair@HP-Z640-1:~> glabels -?
If 'glabels' is not a typo you can use command-not-found to lookup the package that contains it, like this:
cnf glabels
alastair@HP-Z640-1:~> cnf glabels
glabels: command not found
alastair@HP-Z640-1:~>
For now please can I concentrate on glabels.
Where am I going wrong or am I losing my marbles?
I tried to include a screenshot but I have no idea how to have this included here. Website didn’t like my cut and paste!
Are you sure the command is ‘glabels’. I know the package name is glabels (not because you told what you installed, but because I found it searching with YaST > Software Management).
I Haven’t installed it, But what I would do is going to YaST > Software Management, Search for the glabels package, select it in the list at right, go down to the Files tab and see what files are installed. Normally those that are executable are shown in bold.
That could give a very important hint. And you would also see the man pages installed with the package.
I am not right I understand that. Be careful in writing expressions that are possibly not understood by those here that do not have Englisg as their first language.
Screenshot of what? We are trying t manage a CLI problem here.
And the error message is clear enough, isn’t it?
Hi Henk,
Good advice as usual Henk! and on further checking I find that the cli command should be glabels-3.
Never come across this before. Now I have glabels running I shall try it. If I need to try zint I can post again.
Many thanks as ever,
Alastair.
Well, thanks, but I hope you understand that my most important advice above is that you should provide information on what the computer shows you (and no small talk about what you think the computer shows you) in the first post. That then avoids spoiling time (of the volunteers here) in asking for the obvious.