Linux Problem - Guidance Requested

Hello Guest!

You should be more specific in your request. Which way you run that binary file? What is a OS's response?

I'd recommend do it through terminal window. Is this *.bin file a static installation package? If so your program may be or may be not installed. For first case try out find one at your menu. For latter case I'd recommend you to run one through terminal program as root (super user).

/> sudo *.bin

type-in a root password

then watch what happens

Hopefully you'll be informed how all goes good/bad.

this way of initial running of binary could be helpful sometimes

/> sudo sh *.bin

Here "*" is your prog name.

Have you Midnight Commander installed? This terminal prog is very useful for navigating and handling files under terminal command mode.

Good luck, caramba.

Simple, get rid of your piece of shit OS and install something from this century. The world moved away from the command line driven operating systems almost 30 years ago. Move into the 21st century.

The saying goes like: "what works is obsolete". Well, I prefer something that works, than a so-called 21st century over-hyped and ball-breaking Windows distribution. I prefer things to have full control of what happens, see possible error messages pawned in the console, write and use scripts, etc. Granted, with the aid of light-weight utilities, like Midnight Commander. If, on the other hand, you play games, then "21st century" Windows is fine, although I personally still prefer good-old chess, card games and the like, rather than that new stuff which requires space technology graphic cards, some terabytes of memory and 200% CPU power only to strain your brain to the fringe of epilepsy. So, it's a matter of taste, and also, a matter of what you are using your PC for.

Answering to the original post, files with the extension .bin are usually installers. Sometimes, though, this extension is appended by firefox when downloading. What's the full name of the file? We may get an idea. Anyway, if it is indeed an installer, then it must run by first turning executable permission on. Try something like "chmod +x blabla.bin" and then ./blabla.bin as root.

You must work for Microsoft or have not looked at Linux lately

Hello Guest,

Ubuntu can be used much like Windows, so open the directory and double click on the .bin file. You have to be logged in as Administrator to install it, so if you are not already in Administrator, you will be presented with the login before installing.

I love Ubuntu with the exception that the updates are very frequent and can be quite time consuming as all those folks have dreamed up great improvements.

Have a lot of fun! And please play a Majjong for me!

H

The first place to look for your answer is the online Ubuntu forums. If the question hasn't been answered already by someone else, you can always be the first to ask. Google "ubuntu [name of your program file]" to find out about specific problems and also ways around them, and how to install stuff that's not on the main tree.

You didn't specify what program you downloaded, so forgive me if I ask.. did you try to apt-get install it through ubuntu? I know, some things are not available so maybe this doesn't apply. To find out if the program is available through ubuntu, run "apt-cache search [name of your program or application]" in a root terminal. These are Debian command line features which are really straightforward: all you need is to understand a few commands, and you get to see what's going on without having to manually do much of it . (Yay terminal!)This is the great Debian command line stuff, it makes it easy to find out why installs don't sometimes work, and what to do.

The Ubuntu GUI is not as much fun, but it's a lot easier to use than it is to start out by finding something online and then trying a manual install.... For a program available through ubuntu, first try the Applications menu, click on "Add/Remove" and you will get a menu of lists and lists of available stuff. Tick the box (if the desired prg is there) and then "apply changes" - bingo, done. unless of course it doesn't work, in which case, you can go back to the terminal like I had to do today....