Installed XUbuntu 18.04.1. Installed Linux version of Legible latin (http://www.perlingua.com/LatinHome/Legible/). Under 12.04--16.04 it was enough to go to the "parts" subfolder and run
./words
from terminal (and a command-line dictionary Latin-to-English appeared). Now it results in:
bash: ./words: No such file or directory
Tried to find the answer online but to no avail. Apparently the problem is more general than just running this exact application but I do not know how to properly generalise it.
UPDATE 1:
~/Programs/Legible Latin Linux/parts$ ls -l
total 23592
-rw-r--r-- 1 username username 35357 Dec 10 2010 ADDONS.LAT
drwxrwxr-x 2 username username 4096 Aug 10 23:57 Authors
-rw-r--r-- 1 username username 6860520 Dec 10 2010 DICTFILE.GEN
-rw-r--r-- 1 username username 1770956 Dec 10 2010 engwords
-rw-r--r-- 1 username username 7349628 Dec 10 2010 EWDSFILE.GEN
-rw-r--r-- 1 username username 40431 Dec 10 2010 free_latin.jpg
-rw-r--r-- 1 username username 13786 Dec 10 2010 FreeLatin.jpg
-rw-r--r-- 1 username username 19684 Dec 10 2010 INDXFILE.GEN
-rw-r--r-- 1 username username 108000 Dec 10 2010 INFLECTS.SEC
-rw-r--r-- 1 username username 80 Dec 10 2010 latin
-rw-r--r-- 1 username username 948631 Apr 3 2013 Legible.gz
-rwxrwxr-x 1 username username 2994961 Oct 16 2013 legible.rev
-rw-r--r-- 1 username username 5312 Dec 10 2010 README
-rw-r--r-- 1 username username 2882736 Dec 10 2010 STEMFILE.GEN
-rw-r--r-- 1 username username 11565 Dec 10 2010 UNIQUES.LAT
-rw-r--r-- 1 username username 575 Oct 11 2013 WORD.MOD
-rwxr-xr-x 1 username username 876459 Dec 10 2010 words
-rw-r--r-- 1 username username 204283 Dec 10 2010 wordsdoc.htm
UPDATE 2: I tried dpkg --print-foreign-architectures and got i386. Following the advice found on the link you provided I tried to install ia32-libs but it was not possible:
Package ia32-libs is not available, but is referred to by another package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
is only available from another source
However the following packages replace it:
lib32ncurses5 lib32z1
E: Package 'ia32-libs' has no installation candidate
I installed lib32ncurses5 and the situation changed:
$ ./words
./words: error while loading shared libraries: libgcc_s.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
but to no good anyway.
libgcc_s.so.1 cannot be installed with apt-get install.
UPDATE 3: Solved by installing sudo apt-get install lib32gcc-4.8-dev (based on the solutions proposed here: How to Compile 32-bit Apps on 64-bit Ubuntu?)
