On 24-Jul-99 Joe Brault wrote:
> This is probably boring all of you to death, but here goes... I got the disk
> mounted, butnow I can't execute the executable file I downloaded (pkunzip for
> linux) How do I do this?? THanks!
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An .exe file? Are you SURE it's for Linux? .exe files are generally Windows
executables, which will not run in Linux. Technically you COULD rename a Linux
binary file with an .exe extension... but I've never seen a program distributed
for Linux with that extension.
Anyway, make sure the file is set to be executable (type 'chmod +x <filename>'
if it isn't), and from the directory it's in type './<entire-filename>' (without
the quotes of course) to try running it. If that doesn't work, that file is
probably meant for DOS/Windows.
And you shouldn't need pkunzip in Linux anyway. If you've installed Mandrake,
you already have a program called unzip which deals with pkzipped files. And
most files you download for Linux are in tar.gz format, which you use tar and
gzip for.
-Tom
