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Virtuoso appears to be installed... but isn't (and won't run)

I've followed the instructions to install the stable branch of Virtuoso Open Source 7 on Ubuntu 16.04. There don't appear to be any errors throughout the process of —

./autogen.sh  
CFLAGS="-O2 -m64" 
export CFLAGS 
./configure 
make 
make install

However, when I go to /usr/local/virtuoso-opensource/var/lib/virtuoso/db (which contains only virtuoso.ini) and run —

virtuoso-t -f &

The first time I do this the terminal just vanishes. When I reopen the terminal and run the same again it just reads The program 'virtuoso-t' is currently not installed. You can install it by typing: apt install virtuoso-opensource-6.1-bin.

I've tried installing both 7 stable and develop from github and both produce the same result. I'd rather use 7 but tried installing 6 via the ubuntu package and conductor wouldn't work for me - not having much luck all round, one of those days.

Thanks for assistance you can provide.

Solution

  • Sounds like you didn't adjust your $PATH variable after make install.

    $PATH should include the path to the directory which contains the virtuoso-t, or you can include that path in the launch command, e.g. — 

    /path/to/virtuoso-t -f -c /usr/local/virtuoso-opensource/var/lib/virtuoso/db/virtuoso.ini &

    (Note that the develop/7 branch is recommended over stable/7 at the moment, due to the number of fixes there.)