bash says "no such file or directory" but file is present

Asked Jul 12 '17 at 21:16

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The file is present, as evidenced by this command:

lol@foldingmachine:~/Downloads/d3linux$ dir -alh
total 431M
drwxr-xr-x   6 lol lol   4.0K Jul 12 15:27 .
drwxr-xr-x 225 lol users  36K Jul  9 02:53 ..
# ...
-rwxr-xr-x   1 lol lol   3.3M Aug 26  2005 descent3
# ...

and this one:

lol@foldingmachine:~/Downloads/d3linux$ file ./descent3
./descent3: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked, interpreter /lib/ld-linux.so.2, for GNU/Linux 2.0.0, stripped, too many notes (256)

but when I try to execute it, I see the following message:

lol@foldingmachine:~/Downloads/d3linux$ ./descent3
bash: ./descent3: No such file or directory

What gives?

asked Jul 12 '17 at 21:16

jcarpenter2

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SO is for programming questions, not questions about using or configuring Linux. SuperUser.com or unix.stackexchange.com would be better places for questions like this. – Barmar Jul 12 '17 at 21:24
Does the file `/lib/ld-linux.so.2` exist? – Barmar Jul 12 '17 at 21:28
No, it does not. – jcarpenter2 Jul 12 '17 at 21:30
That's the problem. It says `interpreter /lib/ld-linux.so.2`, so it needs to run that program. – Barmar Jul 12 '17 at 21:31
The program is 12 years old. You might want to try installing a newer version or recompiling. – Barmar Jul 12 '17 at 21:32

bash says "no such file or directory" but file is present

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