SUSE can't install anything

[OogyWaWa]

I'm a total linux newb and thought I knew enough to be dangerous, but apparently I can't even install software, lol.

I'm trying to install ActivePerl and SybaseIQ trial, but when i run .sh files from their installs they always say command not found. Sybase has a java installer, so i tried java -jar install.jar and that gives me a wizard.inf not found.

Any idea what I might be doing wrong?

 

[Kirby]

probably not the problem, but have you changed permission so you can execute it?

 

[Nothinman]

Linux doesn't include the current directory in your path and any file you expect to run has to have execute permission. So you probably need to run ./blah.sh in order to tell the shell that you want to explicitly run the file from the current directory.

But why do you need ActivePerl? If something is written in Perl and doesn't run with standard Perl packages, I'd avoid it.

 

[OogyWaWa]

Linux doesn't include the current directory in your path and any file you expect to run has to have execute permission. So you probably need to run ./blah.sh in order to tell the shell that you want to explicitly run the file from the current directory.

But why do you need ActivePerl? If something is written in Perl and doesn't run with standard Perl packages, I'd avoid it.

./install.sh worked perfectly for active perl, thanks! Only reason I am installing it is to use their PPM; nice and easy, at least under windows...

However, I still can't get sybase to install. i tired:
./install.jar -> cannot execute binary file
java -jar ./install.jar -> could not load wizard.inf ...


kirby: yah, it took me minute to figure out there was such a setting, but they are both defaulted to executable.

 

[Nothinman]

You should use the package manager that came with your system to install pretty much everything. I don't even touch CPAN unless I have absolutely no other choice. Otherwise you're stuck manually updating things periodically, like in Windows.

Have you looked in the jar file to see if wizard.inf is in there? Is it possible you're actually missing some files?

 

[Gooberlx2]

Have you looked in the jar file to see if wizard.inf is in there? Is it possible you're actually missing some files?

Yeah, if wizard.inf isn't inside the jar, and it's not in your filesystem somewhere (most likely the same directory tree as the jar), then you're probably missing the inf file.