Re: [newbie] Binary Applications
If you downloaded .rpm files, you have to install them first. In KDE, use the disk navigator to find the rpm, then click on it. The xrpm program should come up with the archive so you can install it. Look at the second tab in the window so you know where and what it's putting out to run it afterward. Charles Sharp wrote: I've been having trouble getting some applications to run on my machine. I downloaded some apps in compiled binary form already and everytime I go to run them it says "cannot execute binary program". How can I make it so these applications will run? One of them was a mud client, another was the game Doom that I downloaded from www.download.com. I'm running Mandrake 7.0.2 (AIR). Thanks in advance.
Re: [newbie] Binary Applications
Charles Sharp wrote: I've been having trouble getting some applications to run on my machine. I downloaded some apps in compiled binary form already and everytime I go to run them it says "cannot execute binary program". How can I make it so these applications will run? One of them was a mud client, another was the game Doom that I downloaded from www.download.com. I'm running Mandrake 7.0.2 (AIR). Thanks in advance. They are probably old style AOUT binaries, open them with a text editor or kless see if they say ELF at the top of the file like the other apps in /bin (I have never had an AOUT binary, so I don't know what they say at the top). There is no default support for them in newer (any?) versions of MDK, you have to recompile your kernel add it (not hard AFAIK, make menu/xconfig should read your current config all you'll have to do is check the box for aout binaries (haven't tried this though, you may want to check 1st)). -WBD
[newbie] Binary Applications
I've been having trouble getting some applications to run on my machine. I downloaded some apps in compiled binary form already and everytime I go to run them it says "cannot execute binary program". How can I make it so these applications will run? One of them was a mud client, another was the game Doom that I downloaded from www.download.com. I'm running Mandrake 7.0.2 (AIR). Thanks in advance.
