Caroline Ford wrote: > alan c wrote: >> >> >> >> Think of scattering seeds of weeds on a concrete driveway. The seeds >> will not flourish. Just like computer viruses and linux. >> Just an experiment to verify this - download a windows .exe file, and >> in ubuntu, try to run it - click, double click, whatever. It will not >> run. Even if it was a virus it will not run. >>
> It will if you have wine installed. Ah there is a message there somewehere! :-) >> Try a more advanced thing. Download a real linux binary file which is >> *intended* to be installed - such as the realplayer binary >> RealPlayer10GOLD.bin from the real site: >> http://uk.real.com/player/select/?src=fd_uk_pldl_oos&rsrc=fd_uk_pldl_oos >> >> When you have downloaded it and saved it somewhere, click on it. >> double click on it, use it in the run facility or whatever. >> It does not run. I will leave it as an exercise for the reader to >> discover how it can be run, :-) :-) > If you download an Ubuntu binary package and click on it it will open in > gdebi, a package installation program. Whoops thanks. I am a kubuntu user and in kubuntu nothing happens - on my install anyway. IIRC the (gdebi) package installation program actually asks you if you want to install (?) -- alan cocks Kubuntu user#10391 -- [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
