Terminal Problem

[danman2]

Hello!

I have a UNIX executable file to execute via Terminal... however when trying to do so I have the following message 😱:

apples-macbook-2:mcsim-5.4.0 apple$ convanal
-bash: /usr/local/bin/convanal: cannot execute binary file

Any ideas 😕

Thx

 

[dknightd]

Hello!

I have a UNIX executable file to execute via Terminal... however when trying to do so I have the following message 😱:

apples-macbook-2:mcsim-5.4.0 apple$ convanal
-bash: /usr/local/bin/convanal: cannot execute binary file

Any ideas 😕

Thx

Did you compile the binary yourself, or get it from the internet?
It could be the binary was not compiled for your system.

 

[old-wiz]

Are you even sure it's compiled for Intel?

 

[danman2]

I thought it would be a compiling issue but as it's a UNIX file I hoped to be able to execute it as most probably I won't be able to get the source code for compiling it on my MAC.

The file it's not from internet, it's from my ex-work and we used it on UNIX to do convergence analysis for MCMC chains

 

[dknightd]

If it is for a different unix platform it will not run on a mac.

 

[ScoobyMcDoo]

I thought it would be a compiling issue but as it's a UNIX file I hoped to be able to execute it as most probably I won't be able to get the source code for compiling it on my MAC.

The file it's not from internet, it's from my ex-work and we used it on UNIX to do convergence analysis for MCMC chains

Do you know specifically what flavor of unix? If so, and you can get a hold of that version, and it is intel based, you may be able to run it in a VM using VMWare or a similar product.

 

[danman2]

Do you know specifically what flavor of unix? If so, and you can get a hold of that version, and it is intel based, you may be able to run it in a VM using VMWare or a similar product.

Well not sure if it's the GNU Herd version as the softwares we use on unix are from the GNU organization.

Anyway thx a lot, I'll try to see what y told me in these couple of days n come back with the result. If it doesn't work I'll probably switch to R to do the convergence analysis