I need to install an .bin file. How do I do that?
depends on what it is. Some can be run by making them executable,some can be installed via CLI & some just copy/paste to the location. What is the file name ?
Andy
Hi
Use sh before the file name eg;
sh googleearth.bin
You could also make it executable and then execute like this;
chmod 755 googleearth.bin
../googleearth.bin
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Use sh before the file name eg;
Code:
sh googleearth.bin
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when I use sh and the files name it says that there is no such file. What do I do in that case?
Maybe it would help if you knew a little more.
I need to install Real Player 11 since Kaffine is out of order and Realplayer 10 which Yast tells me is installed but it doesn’t start. So I download Realplayer 11 the linux version from their website. Then Firefox saved it as RealPlayer11GOLD.bin on my desktop. If you single click on it ask which program to start with this file. If I look at Properties I find
General
RealPlayer11GOLD.bin
Type: Exacutable File
Location: /home/Mattias/Desktop
Size: 7.5 MB
What do I have to do to get it working?
Why not use the rpm ? it’s on their web-page RealPlayer for Linux - the best audio and video player - Real.com
Andy
chmod a+x filename.bin to make it executable
Thats the one I use. I think.
Hi
Looks like that one needs chmoding
chmod 755
../RealPlayer11GOLD.bin
As an aside, I would look at creating a download directory in your home
directory for firefox to download too.
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linux-rq6t:/home/Mattias #chmod a+x RealPlayer11GOLD.bin
chmod: cannot access `RealPlayer11GOLD.bin’: No such file or directory
linux-rq6t:/home/Mattias # chmod 755 /home/Mattias/Desktop/Realplayer11GOLD.bin
chmod: cannot access `/home/Mattias/Desktop/Realplayer11GOLD.bin’: No such file or directory
linux-rq6t:/home/Mattias # chmod 755 …/RealPlayer11GOLD.bin
chmod: cannot access `…/RealPlayer11GOLD.bin’: No such file or directory
Am I doing something wrong here? Thanks for the FF tip btw
Should just be a matter of cd’ing into the directory where the .bin file is then doing the chmod.
Say for example the .bin file is in a directory called /home/Mattias/download. Open a terminal and type:
cd /home/Mattias/download
then do an ‘ls’ just to double check that it’s there.
Assuming that it shows up in the listing you should be able to make it executable with:
chmod u+x *.bin
After that you should be able to run it with:
./RealPlayer11GOLD.bin
The only reason I can think of for this not to work would be if the file was owned by a different user. You can check this with
cd /home/Mattias/download
ls -l
If it is owned by another user then the chmod could be done by root:
su
<enter root password>
chmod o+x
Alternatively, you could change the ownership of the file as root.
If you do the chmod as root it may be a good idea to exit out of root before running the binary, especially if it’s an unknown binary.
Well take it off the desktop and put it in a proper directory aka your home directory then run the file.
Hi
Just copy it to your home directory rather than the desktop, change it
as your user not root! As said in an earlier post use the rpm it’s much
easy 
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Moving the file away from the desktop actually helped :O. Then I followed yu210148’s guide and voila. The program is running
How do I install RealPlayer11GOLD.bin file which has been downloaded on my desktop? Please give step by step procedure.