On Sun, 2007-02-04 at 18:15 -0500, Doug McGarrett wrote: > On Sunday 04 February 2007 15:24, Rajko M. wrote: > > On Sunday 04 February 2007 13:04, charles buchanan wrote: > > ... > > > > > > > if the program is "install-realplayer10gold.bin" for instance, > > > > > The file is in /home/(username), I'm in the directory > > > > > /home/(username), do a dir and the file is there, I issue the > > > > > command(s) that is/are listed on the website for this program, what > > > > > else am I suppose to be doing? > > > > ... > > > > > I wanted to try out Thunderbird but couldn't get it to install. > > > > What is wrong? > > Program not running? > > Shell reports that can't find program? > > > > -- > > Regards, Rajko. > > http://en.opensuse.org/Portal > > You can't run a program from the directory it's in.
Actually you can but you need to run the program as ./some_program_to_run. -- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
