Thanks for everybody's help...it installed like a charm and I'm now intimately familiar with chmod!
-Trey On Mon, 2003-01-06 at 19:46, Colin Watson wrote: > On Mon, Jan 06, 2003 at 07:23:08PM -0500, Trey Sizemore wrote: > > I downloaded the staroffice .bin file and have tried to install it on my > > system. I thought (mistakenly I guess) that I could install by clicking > > on the file or by invoking it from the command line (by typing the file > > name from a bash prompt). > > You're almost there with the second one. 'chmod +x whateveritis.bin', > then './whateveritis.bin'. The './' is significant; the execution path > doesn't include the current directory by default, since that would be a > security risk. > > -- > Colin Watson [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
