On Monday 31 March 2003 02:27 am, Derek Jennings wrote: > 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.
Thank you, Derek. I was wondering why I was getting the message "permission denied" when logged as root. I was installing Java and they only give it to you in bin format in the place I was directed by Netscape. Maybe I didn't look in the right place, but I was mainly concerned with downloading the right package. It's installed now. Maybe I should stop. I want to go up to 9.1. I'll post for advise as it seems there is some issue with the NVIDIA cards. Teilhard Knight The Extraterrestrial Who ate my sandwich?
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