From: Arno Seitzinger <spam2_arno@lucienet.de>
To: linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: how to launch downloaded files?
Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2002 11:04:12 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <atk8dl$3p5$1@main.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 3DFBEA9E.9000704@look.ca
R. Bal wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I'm a day old Linux user, and am loving the system performance.
> Everthing is great, except that I can't seem to get the files I download
> off the net to "execute". I know where the files are being saved. How
> do I "run" them? I have a Netscape installer, but can't seem to get it
> working.
>
> Any suggestions? I'm running Red Hat 8.0.
>
> RB.
One thing you should keep in mind is that you may have to change the file
attribute to executeable _if_ you downloaded an executeable file.
Have a look at 'man chmod'
You can use it like 'chmod u+x yourfile' which will change permission to
executeable for the owner of the file.
HTH
Arno
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-12-16 10:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-12-15 2:36 how to launch downloaded files? R. Bal
2002-12-15 2:46 ` Ray Olszewski
2002-12-15 3:41 ` dashielljt
2002-12-16 10:04 ` Arno Seitzinger [this message]
[not found] ` <atk7jc$umb$1@main.gmane.org>
2002-12-16 10:05 ` Arno Seitzinger
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