Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2224 mails)

[Doug McGarrett <dmcgarrett@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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.  That seems to be a UNIX 
no-no.  Back up one directory, and run the command 
with /directory/install...etc.  I know it's goofy, but that's UNIX--and 
Linux.  In this case, the "directory" is /username.

--doug
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