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Whoops, sorry if I caused a problem there. I've increased the hauls by ten, so it should upload now every 30 minutes, approximately.

Add apgsearch.py to Golly's Scripts folder, then double-click the file from within Golly, instead of your file explorer.

When I do this, and click on it, it just gives a dialog box "Could not load the Python library" and asks me to type in the file adress for python27.dll and even when I do, the ...

I appear to have everything needed in place now, but running the script gives me a dialogue asking for the name of the Python library. I remember when I did this before, I just used "python26" and it worked. Doing that for 2.7 doesn't. Any idea what the filename is for this? I can't seem to find ...

Update...

Thanks to some help from Apple Bottom, "make clean" allowed me to recompile and now we're up and running again. Much simpler and quicker solution than I had expected

One of my apgmera installations has broken. It has been working perfectly for months, but when I went to change the rule I got this:

apgmera v3.28: Rule b3s23 does not match desired rule b35s136.
Skipping updates; use --update to update apgmera automatically.
Configuring rule b35s136; symmetry C1 ...

The v2.x and 3.x versions of apgsearch only run on x86_64 machines -- so are unfortunately incompatible with the ARM-based Raspberry Pi. I imagine that 1.x should be completely cross-platform; if not, I suggest discussing this with Andrew or Tom...?

I should have specified but I did mean just ...

It's 32bit.

I assumed that the Python scripts would work on any system that can run Python 2.6 but I could be wrong? I really don't know enough about coding to answer that one myself If it's not going to work, fine, but it's a shame as I have several old PCs that could be pressed into service.

Would the old Python script work on Golly running on a Pi? I gave it a try but couldn't get it to accept the libpython version number. Not sure if that's the script failing on that system or me not finding the correct version number (2.7.9 as far as I could tell).

Edit: I'm really sorry I misunderstood your intention. There have been waaay too many "UK Kitchen Improvement" spambots with websites like that in their signature, but they don't post :/

hehe No worries. It didn't occur to me when I posted the thread title. I'll make it look less generic in ...

I would like to add more processing power to my Soup Kitchen, but I'm concerned about the ever increasing cost of my energy bills. (The heat these machines are pumping out is beginning to become a problem too). What options exist to run the soup searcher on less energy hungry hardware?

Alexey_Nigin wrote: Welcome on board!

Thanks! ^^

This is all very new to me and I'm only just getting my head around the very basic stuff still, hoping to contribute more than just CPU cycles in the future. But I have to say a big thanks to Apple Bottom for getting me up and running quickly! I'm relatively new to Linux as well, and it would have ...