Hi,
i’m pretty new to linux. I just recently downloaded an ELF binary file but i can’t seem to get this started, nor can i find some kind of ELF library that can read this file. How can i get this started?
thanks in advance
Lars
ELF is the Linux executable file format. Maybe it’s for a different architecture or system. Unless you tell us more about it, that’s all we can say about ELF.
PS: Do you really trust a lone binary downloaded from somewhere to run without harming your system? Shouldn’t it be part of a package or something? Is anything more known about it?
it’s the first link on this site
I would like to use it to stream to an icecast server
when i want to open this file in the Console it says
command not found
searched for this file in the software repositories but couldn’t find it or anything alike
According to them you need ELFsh. I don’t know anything about that. Sounds like a complicated way to distribute a program. Sure there isn’t another equivalent program?
Been looking for a similar program but didn’t find any. also ELFsh was nowhere to be found 
I know there are Windows equivalents so maybe i’ll try them with wine
Seems elfsh is here:
Don’t know if anybody has built SUSE packages. You could always compile from source…
I’d thought that an ELF would be executable by default in linux. Did you try running it directly? Open a terminal, go to the directory where the executable is, type “./filename_of_executable” (no quotes, check first if you have to run it as root or not). The “./” tell the shell to look for the file in the current directory, not on the executables path.
But, are you sure you want to do this? Reminds me of the bad bad windows days - hey, I downloaded this cool executable from an obscure site in the internet. Let’s install it and play, never mind if it is a virus or not…