Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2224 mails)

[Kenneth Schneider <suse-list3@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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

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