new user dumb software install question

[RichL025]

First of all, thanks to everyone who helped me install RH9 on my system here. I am happy to report these electrons come to you without passing through a microsoft product...

In my brand-spanking new Red Hat 9 OS, I downloaded the REAL player for Unix/Linux. Not having much linux knowledge, I selected what I thought was the closest version to my OS, the download marked as "Linux / Alpha Red Hat v 6.2"

Now I have a downloaded file on my desktop, with a "*.bin" extension, which I know from DOS means an executable binary file....

Double-clicking on the file, though, yields an error message that says "Nautilus has no installed viewer capable of displaying xxxxx.bin"

Farting around, I find no other way to "execute" the file.

Is ".bin" a valid filemane extension for linux? Did I download the wrong version? Another choice that looked good was "linux/sparc Red Hat v 6.2". Is this worth trying?

Or, am I missing something _really_ basic about running programs in linux?

Thanks,

Rich L

[YogaFrog]

Hey there,

Just install it with this command:

# ./nameofyourfile.bin

That should do it

:)

[saithan]

right click the file in nautilus and choose permissions.
then check/x the execute setting for "user".
then open a terminal windows and navigate to the directory where the file is saved. (example: cd /path/to/directory)

then type:
./filename.bin

use the proper filename.

the file rill run from there.