Troubleshooting Problems With GCitrus

There are two types of problems you can have with GCitrus: problems that prevent you from running the program and problems that prevent the program from working correctly.

If you cannot get gcitrus to run, then check to make sure that

1. Citrus is installed. If you are on a system with RPM, you can check to see if Citrus is installed with this command:

   % rpm -q citrus

   If Citrus is installed, this should print out the current version of the installed package. If it's not installed, RPM should print "package citrus is not installed". In that case, you need to download and install Citrus. See Obtaining Citrus for more information.

2. Your path contains the directory which has the citrus binary in it.

If gcitrus runs but produces an error, the possible causes include

1. gcitrus was unable to find (or had no read access to) its configuration file, which is normally /usr/share/citrus/units.xml. Check to make sure that the file exists and that you have permission to read it.

2. One of the units you entered is incorrect. Make sure that you typed the unit's abbreviation and not its full name. Citrus will eventually recognize the full name, but not until a later version is released. Also, if there is a period in the abbreviation, you must include it. (This is the case for several English units.)

3. You forgot to enter a number to be converted.