gireesh wrote: > I was not able to install wmp in my solaris based computer. > I extracted wmp6.3.tar.z and got two files "install" and "readme"
"wmp" and "wmp6.3.tar.Z" imply to me that you are trying to install Microsoft(R) Windows Media(R) Player 6.3 for Solaris. That is a proprietary product of Microsoft. Please contact them for support. We are "the free software guys" and can't help you. Microsoft Windows Media Player is not free software. > couldn't figure out how to install, please send me the exact > commands to use to install this (install --help gave all the options > but I was not able to figure out what option to use). I dont have > the admn passwd for my machine I have logged in as an user. The GNU "install" program is a program which operates very similarly to a copy program. It copies files into their destination directory and by doing so "install"s them, with a proper owner, group and permissions. The extra setting of owner, group and permission differentiates it from just using a copy program. The program has been called "install" for many, many years and is required by software standards. Many installation scripts require the "install" program. It has no relationship to installing MS-Windows software. The "install" command is not used by a user to install a software package. It is used by software packages to install individual files from with the package. That is the confusion you are having right now. You do not want to run "install package.tar.gz" or any such thing. Instead you will need to follow the instructions with the software package. Different software bundles will have different instructions. The GNU Core Utilities are the basic file, shell and text manipulation utilities of the GNU operating system. This list is for bug reports and general discussion of the GNU coreutils programs. The "install" program is one of those programs. Hope that helped, Bob _______________________________________________ Bug-fileutils mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-fileutils
