[Elecraft] K3/P3 utilities and error 127 [Solved]

Phil Wheeler w7ox at socal.rr.com
Tue Jun 24 19:52:36 EDT 2014


Part of the charm of Linux is its inscrutability, 
or so I've heard ;-)

Like guessing when you need sudo and when not -- 
depending some on the distro.

Phil W7OX

On 6/24/14, 4:27 PM, Don Wilhelm wrote:
> David,
>
> Do you really expect error messages in Linux to 
> be informative and in clear text? :-)
> MS is better, but not by much.  You need to be a 
> member of the GEEK SQUAD to decipher many of them.
>
> Sorry Eric about the OS related post, but I just 
> couldn't resist.
>
> 73,
> Don W3FPR
>
> On 6/24/2014 7:11 PM, David Sanders W4DES wrote:
>> Problem solved.  Error: 127 indicates you don’t 
>> have curl installed (thanks to W8FGU).
>> Just needed: sudo apt-get install curl
>>
>> A more informative error message would have 
>> saved a lot of head scratching.
>>



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