On Monday 31 Mar 2003 2:59 am, Teilhard Knight wrote: > On Monday 31 March 2003 01:34 am, Raffaele Belardi wrote: > > Those are typically executables. They are not associated with anything, > > but must be run from the shell. > > > > Open a shell (also known as terminal), change to the directory where the > > .bin is located (with cd), then type ./<filename>.bin > > Thanks so much. That installs it, huh? Cool. >
When you download a .bin package you have to make it executable before you can run it. Right click in konqueror>Properties. Having to manually make a downloaded file executable is a protection against attack by worms or viruses. BTW: Any file name in linux may be executable. They do not have to end in '.bin' Also where possible try to use RPMs instead of binary installers. The reason being that your RPM database will be accurate as to which applications are already installed. It is also harder to uninstall a application installed as a binary executable. Popular applications like Sun Java and Netscape 7 are available as RPMs if you look in the right places. derek -- ---------------------------------- www.jennings.homelinux.net
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