Myers, Dennis R NWO wrote: > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Warren Post > Sent: Sunday, March 10, 2002 6:27 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [newbie] Installing a program via a shell script > > > I'm trying to install a program I downloaded (faxview, as mentioned on > Freshmeat). The download was a whopping 92 K shell script named > faxview-2.0b. While in the directory containing the download, I su'ed to > root and gave the command: > > faxview-2.0b > > and recived the error message "bash: faxview-2.0b: command not found" > > What am I doing wrong? And recommendations for fax frontends gladly > accepted. > -- > Warren Post > Santa Rosa de Copan, Honduras > http://www.srcopan.vze.com/ > > Warren, try ./faxview-2.0b at the prompt and see if that doesn't get it > going. Also Hylafax should be on the CDs and have a decent front end. HTH > > Dennis M. >
You mentioned that the program was downloaded as a shell script. Did you try making it executable before running (chmod +x [file])? Mark
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