“No such file or directory” when the file is there

Question

I'm trying to run XPDF on a linux (probably red hat) OVH shared server.

I've managed to have ftp ssh access and put the 64 bits binaries onto a folder.

The problem is : even though the files are there with the right permissions, if I try running it I'm getting a file not found problem (I'm thinking about a missing link..)

Long story short :

jurisedi@ssh1:~/xpdf$ file pdftotext
pdftotext: ELF 64-bit LSB executable, x86-64, version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked (uses shared libs), stripped

jurisedi@ssh1:~/xpdf$ ./pdftotext
-ovh: jurisedi@ssh1:~/xpdf$: No such file or directory

Any ideas ?

Answer 1

I suppose that there is a problem with one of the library that pdfotext binary linked with. You need to do:

$ ldd ./pdftotext

to check if the file has some problems with libraries.

If it is not a dynamic executable, it is probably a script. When you try to run the script and get a message "no such file or directory", that can mean that the interpreter specified at the first line of the script is not existent.

Answer 2

The error message you give in your question (-ovh: jurisedi@ssh1:~/xpdf$: No such file or directory) is certainly wrong, I cannot think of any tool that would search for your shell prompt as an existing file. Please try to execute the ./pdftotext again and paste the real error message into your question. The current wrong error message is very misleading.

But it is your comment "Okay ldd pdftotext returns "not a dynamic executable"" that actually shows what is happening here: Your kernel does not support 64 bit executables.

You can either try to obtain a 32 bit version of the program you try to run or install a kernel that supports 64 bit on the machine.