pgn2ltx -- command not found

Question

I am using Ubuntu 16.04 and found the program pgn2ltx (http://pgn2ltx.sourceforge.net/) to convert pgn-files to LaTex. I unzipped the files in a folder with the same name and created a binary file with the command make pgn2ltx. When I try to run it from the command line I get pgn2ltx: command not found. Now I don't know how to proceed from here. Regards, Michael

Answer 1

When you ran the make command it built the binary, but it didn't install it. There doesn't appear to be an install option for your program, so you need to reference the executable by referring to it with ./pgn2ltx when you are in the directory where you built the software.

The other solution is to copy the compiled executable into /home/$USER/bin (creating the folder first if it doesn't exist), and then add that directory to your $PATH with export PATH="/home/$USER/bin:$PATH" either directly on the command line yourself, or as part of your ~/.bashrc file so the changes are persistent. From there, then, the executable will be recognized as a valid program when you try and execute the software with just pgn2ltx on the command line directly.