SPAM: Detailed Instructions For Installing Downloaded Binary Applications
I have downloaded two binary formatted applications, Scilab and Adobe Reader, but cannot find any guidance in SuSE Help on installing the programs so I can use them. Have gone to Novell's website but no help there either. Is there a good book addressing such SuSE problems? Alternatively, could someone spell out the needed steps for a Linux newbie? Thanks, W. D. Allen Sr. ballensr@adelphia.net end -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I am using the free version of SPAMfighter for private users. It has removed 433 spam emails to date. Paying users do not have this message in their emails. Try SPAMfighter for free now!
On Saturday 14 October 2006 19:10, W. D. Allen wrote:
I have downloaded two binary formatted applications, Scilab and Adobe Reader, but cannot find any guidance in SuSE Help on installing the programs so I can use them.
Have gone to Novell's website but no help there either. Is there a good book addressing such SuSE problems? Alternatively, could someone spell out the needed steps for a Linux newbie?
It's deceptively simple. Assume we have a file called bin1, which we downloaded from website acme.com: chmod +x ./bin1 ./bin1 done! The names or extensions of the file are not significant in determining whether they are executable or not. Many binary installers are actually big shell scripts containing "shar"-encoded data in them. For these you can run them with: sh bin1 'sh' is, on Linux systems, normally a symlink to /bin/bash, but it may also be some other "Bourne-compatible" shell. -- ----- stephan@s11n.net http://s11n.net "...pleasure is a grace and is not obedient to the commands of the will." -- Alan W. Watts
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Saturday 2006-10-14 at 10:10 -0700, W. D. Allen wrote:
I have downloaded two binary formatted applications, Scilab and Adobe Reader, but cannot find any guidance in SuSE Help on installing the programs so I can use them.
Have gone to Novell's website but no help there either.
No, you need guidance from Scilab and Adobe instead, as you got the files from them. SuSE or Novell have nothing to do with them. As for the Adobe reader, you can instead use the adobe reader that came with the distro, you don't need to jump any loops except to fire up yast, select adeobe reader and click install. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.76 iD8DBQFFMUI3tTMYHG2NR9URArATAJ9g4jVIxhuccd1b3zU+g4NYo4SPMQCfZf4R JijpzErrFV5VKhVx4LeZ0tM= =hlSe -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
Carlos E. R. schreef:
The Saturday 2006-10-14 at 10:10 -0700, W. D. Allen wrote:
I have downloaded two binary formatted applications, Scilab and Adobe Reader, but cannot find any guidance in SuSE Help on installing the programs so I can use them.
Have gone to Novell's website but no help there either.
No, you need guidance from Scilab and Adobe instead, as you got the files from them. SuSE or Novell have nothing to do with them.
Scilab is part of the SuSE distro. You can install it in the usual way. That is pereferable to installing the scilab binary from inria. Regards, -- Jos van Kan registered Linux user #152704
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Sunday 2006-10-15 at 11:28 +0200, Jos van Kan wrote:
Scilab is part of the SuSE distro. You can install it in the usual way. That is pereferable to installing the scilab binary from inria.
I didn't check, but you are absolutely right. | Group : Productivity/Scientific/Math Source RPM: scilab-3.0-7.src.rpm | Size : 100090538 License: Other License(s), see package | Signature : DSA/SHA1, Tue Mar 22 22:28:31 2005, Key ID a84edae89c800aca | Packager : http://www.suse.de/feedback | URL : http://scilabsoft.inria.fr/ | Summary : Large Mathematical Package | Description : | A large mathematical package containing a lot of demos. Take a look at | the license information in /usr/lib/scilab/notice.* | | This program may not look very appealing, but it is as powerful as some | commercial products. Scilab even includes a converter for Maple files. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.76 iD8DBQFFMiAVtTMYHG2NR9URAkFcAKCCniLnu97Fm314bLXzBOOzBSC3PgCcDO1m 34kyczOKFV+03LgZjq8K4FQ= =ksdj -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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