In RedHat 7.2, what do I do with a Bin file?

[Bateluer]

?? I know its a binary file, do I need to compile it into an RPM? If so, how do I do that?

 

[Barnaby W. Füi]

bin = binary. where did you get it and what is it?

is it for installing a program? you probably should just chmod +x it and execute it...but only if you're supposed to execute it.

 

[manly]

Yeah, sadly some commercial software vendors like to ship their software as a shell-script that you execute.

The script displays a license agreement, and then self-extracts itself into the working directory.

Like BBWF said, if you got it from a safe source, chmod +x the file and run it. I would never run it as root though.

 

[Bateluer]

Its LimeWire for linux, so I would consider it save, though I would never run it as root.

This is the first Bin file I have used in linux, how do I "chmod +x" it?

Edit - 'Nother question, how do i use a Tar.GZ file? The Tar.gz is ProFTPD.

 

[Barnaby W. Füi]

<< Yeah, sadly some commercial software vendors like to ship their software as a shell-script that you execute.

The script displays a license agreement, and then self-extracts itself into the working directory. >>


i hate stuff that installs like that. i think java is like that. java seemed too lame to deal with, i gave up on installing it. not a big loss anyways. at least a browser plugin would be nice

speaking of which, non-windows browser plugins are such a pain.

sigh

 

[manly]

Just get the open-source LimeWire RPM instead.

 

[jcrowe]

To change the mod type:
chmod +x filename.bin

This changes the file so you can execute it. To execute it type:
./filename.bin

As for tar.gz files. These are just files that are compressed. To uncompress them type:
tar -xzvf filename.tar.gz

Hope that helps.

jcrowe

 

[n0cmonkey]

man chmod
man chown
man tar
man gunzip

 

[Bateluer]

What do I type at the cmd line to run an RPM?

And is it just me, or does Gnome have crummy support for GUI RPM installation?

 

[n0cmonkey]

<< What do I type at the cmd line to run an RPM? >>



man rpm



<< And is it just me, or does Gnome have crummy support for GUI RPM installation? >>



Its just you, no one else uses gnome

 

[Bateluer]

I like Gnome, its prettier than KDE IMO.

Anyway, so I type 'rpm-i filename.rpm'?

 

[n0cmonkey]

<< I like Gnome, its prettier than KDE IMO. >>



Good. What I said was a joke, I personally dont use either. They are too slow and big.



<< Anyway, so I type 'rpm-i filename.rpm'? >>



Sounds about right. I dont like rpms so I dont know for sure.

 

[Bateluer]

Said command not found.


Nuts to this, I'll log into KDE.

 

[n0cmonkey]

<< Said command not found.


Nuts to this, I'll log into KDE. >>



It couldnt find rpm? Try "locate rpm" and see if it finds it. I didnt think you could install RedHat without it..

 

[Bateluer]

Ok, here is the scoop.

I want to install LimeWire thru the bin file, but it needed Java Runtime installed. I DLed the Java files linked to on their site, use the chmod +x and installed it.

When I attempt to chmod +x the limewire bin file and execute it, i get the following " Extracting the installation resources from the installer archive . . . Configuring the installer for this system's environment . . . No Java virtual machine could be found from your PATH environment variable. You must install a VM prior to running this program."

Didn't i just install a Java VM rpm?

BTW, those Limewire RPMs did not work either

 

[n0cmonkey]

Find out where the JAVA VM isntalls itself and add that location to your $PATH.

 

[Barnaby W. Füi]

<< Ok, here is the scoop.

I want to install LimeWire thru the bin file, but it needed Java Runtime installed. I DLed the Java files linked to on their site, use the chmod +x and installed it.

When I attempt to chmod +x the limewire bin file and execute it, i get the following " Extracting the installation resources from the installer archive . . . Configuring the installer for this system's environment . . . No Java virtual machine could be found from your PATH environment variable. You must install a VM prior to running this program."

Didn't i just install a Java VM rpm?

BTW, those Limewire RPMs did not work either >>


you dont need limewire, install gtk-gnutella, it runs off the same network (gnutella) and works much better than limewire IMO.

 

[Barnaby W. Füi]

<< Find out where the JAVA VM isntalls itself and add that location to your $PATH. >>


i tried to install limewire once, and i did exactly what he did, and then added java's path to my path, and it still didnt work. i just gave up and found gtk-gnutella

 

[Bateluer]

<<
i tried to install limewire once, and i did exactly what he did, and then added java's path to my path, and it still didnt work. i just gave up and found gtk-gnutella
/q]

Where?

 

[manly]

I've used LimeWire on Linux in the past, but not recently enough to comment on installation. I've never tried those RPMs that I mentioned.

I believe LimeWire is considered a decent/good Gnutella client, as long as you're willing to accept that it's a Java client app.

On the other hand, Gnutella isn't really considered a good p2p foundation for WANs (i.e. the Internet). The problem w/ Gnutella is that at any given time, your searches aren't global; so you effectively belong to a small local Gnutella network. As a result, downloading is a real pain.