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joekoffi

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Registered: 2012-07-07

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[SOLVED] Help installing selfcontro

Hello,

I have installed a piece of software to block the internet at certain times, it's called selfcontrol
http://svn.jklmnop.net/projects/SelfControl.html
I installed it from the .deb file and all seems to have worked fine, but I cannot summon the program.
What should I do?

Last edited by joekoffi (2012-07-29 12:17:51)

rhowaldt

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Re: [SOLVED] Help installing selfcontro

how are you trying to start the program?
what does

man selfcontrol

tell you? is 'selfcontrol' the title of the app as you should start it up? or is it something else, like 'sc' for example?

if it is 'selfcontrol', open a terminal and type

which selfcontrol

so you can see whether the program is found within your $PATH. if not, it is installed someplace that isn't in your $PATH and you should symlink it to another directory so the system finds it automatically.
if you do find something, just type

selfcontrol

in a terminal and see if it works.

joekoffi

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Registered: 2012-07-07

Posts: 14

Re: [SOLVED] Help installing selfcontro

Thanks for the reply.
Man selfcontrol shows me this:

SelfControl(3pm)           User Contributed Perl Documentation          SelfControl(3pm)

NAME
       SelfControl - Block the internet for a period of time.

VERSION
       Version 0.9

SYNOPSIS
       This application allows one to make a list of internet sites by hostname or IP
       address, and then to block access to those sites for a specifig amount of time.
       For example: block access to metafilter.com and slashdot.org for 45 minutes.

AUTHOR
       zengargoyle, "<zengargoyle at gmail.com>"

BUGS
       Please report any bugs or feature requests to "zengargoyle at gmail.com".

SUPPORT
       You can find documentation for this module with the perldoc command.

           perldoc SelfControl

       You can also look for information at:
       ·   The SelfControl for Linux Homepage

           <http://svn.jklmnop.net/projects/SelfControl.html>

LICENSE AND COPYRIGHT
       Copyright 2010 zengargoyle.

       This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the
       terms of either: the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software
       Foundation; or the Artistic License.

       See http://dev.perl.org/licenses/ for more information.

       On Debian/Ubuntu systems these licenses can be found in:

           /usr/share/common-licenses/Artistic
           /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL

which selfcontrol does not show anything
If I try just selfcontrol on the terminal I get

bash: selfcontrol: command not found

rhowaldt

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Re: [SOLVED] Help installing selfcontro

what if you open up GMrun (Alt+F2 in my case, not sure if it is the same for you, but it is also in the default Openbox menu) and type 'selfcontrol'?
also, it seems to be a Perl program? maybe try 'perl selfcontrol'... not 100% sure here. just telling you what i'd try myself

oh, i notice the manpage gives you a command for more information, being

perldoc SelfControl

try that out.

another thought: maybe you need to type it with the Capitalization? so SelfControl instead of selfcontrol ?

joekoffi

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Re: [SOLVED] Help installing selfcontro

Great! Thank you very much.
It was the capitalization

rhowaldt

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Re: [SOLVED] Help installing selfcontro

ahh cool
no problem, and good luck with your software.