Find-n-run version 1.10.6 successfully runs on Lubuntu.

Supporting Ubuntu-based distros (L/K/Ubuntu, Mint, etc.) is not a goal of mine, as I am focused on Fatdog64 Linux and do not use Ubuntu. However, since in my limited testing the script runs fine on Lubuntu, I will try to keep compatibility in all future releases.

Here is a picture of find-n-run 1.10.6 running on Lubuntu with the WinAte theme.

Installing find-n-run on Lubuntu

Download and install the .deb package attached to the latest release in the release page.

Before you can run find-n-run your system must satisfy all pre-requisites.

Pre-requisites

To use find-n-run on a plain Lubuntu system you need to install three packages, which might themselves pull in additional dependencies:

• GNU awk, gawk
• gtk-dialog
• the ash shell

GNU awk

Find-n-run requires GNU awk. Lubuntu's default mawk just isn't enough. Start a terminal and run this command:

sudo apt-get install gawk

gtk-dialog and libnotify-bin

Ubuntu removed gtk-dialog from the offical repository a few releases ago, so you need to install gtk-dialog from a contributed repository. I tested lanzadoc's repository, which includes a 32-bit package only. An option for 64-bit system is listed further down.

Using aptitude

Note: I only tested the manual installation process, which is described in the next section.

Browse https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gtkdialog and click "Other versions of 'gtkdialog' in untrusted archives".

Add lanzadoc's repository (32-bit only):

sudo apt-add-repository https://launchpad.net/~geinux/+archive/ubuntu/lanzadoc
sudo apt-get update

install gtk-dialog, which should also install the official libnotify-bin package if necessary.

sudo apt-get gtk-dialog

Manual installation for 32-bit OS

Download the .deb file directly from lanzadoc's repo:

• http://ppa.launchpad.net/geinux/lanzadoc/ubuntu/pool/main/g/gtkdialog/
• http://ppa.launchpad.net/geinux/lanzadoc/ubuntu/pool/main/g/gtkdialog/gtkdialog_0.8.4_i386.deb

Install gtk-dialog by double-clicking the .deb file in your file manager to start your package manager, which should also install the official libnotify-bin package if necessary.

Options for 64-bit systems

Unfortunately, lanzadoc's repository lacks a 64-bit gtk-dialog .deb package. A 64-bit package of an earlier gtk-dialog version 0.8.3.2 is found on the 'multisystem' sourceforce project page. Please note that I did not test this package at all. You are on your own. Proceed with due caution at your own risk.

Alternatively, if you don't mind mixing binaries, you could download Fatdog64's own gtk-dialog binary package and dependency libraries from the official page, and extract binary files into their standard locations.

Ash

If the ash shell isn't already installed you can target busybox as a symbolic link. If busybox isn't installed you could target bash instead of busybox.

To create a symbolic link run the following commands in a terminal:

test -x /bin/ash || sudo ln -s /bin/busybox /bin/ash
test -x /bin/ash || sudo ln -s /bin/bash /bin/ash

Try running ash in a terminal. If it is still unavailable you could try changing the first line of file /usr/bin/findnrun to reference /bin/bash instead of /bin/ash.