This should be simple. I'm trying to install a shockwave plugin and I've already extracted it. how do I get it to run the installer from the directory? I cant seem to get that workin.
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This should be simple. I'm trying to install a shockwave plugin and I've already extracted it. how do I get it to run the installer from the directory? I cant seem to get that workin.
For reference, he's using Mandrake.
yeah. i just can't figure out why I cant run any programs at all from the xterm.
using "./" ?Quote:
Originally posted by ZakkWylde969
yeah. i just can't figure out why I cant run any programs at all from the xterm.
Yeah. Like I would unpack the Shockwave files and I would go into that directory and i would try to run the install file by typing out the name and it wouldn't work. It's a little different that what I'm used to.
Did you type
./nameofinstallfile
?
Or just
nameofinstallfile
?
just nameofinstallfile I guess I have to do ./ ?
fo' sheezyQuote:
Originally posted by ZakkWylde969
just nameofinstallfile I guess I have to do ./ ?
think of "./" as the equivelent of a double click in windows. its how you run an executable under linux.
Actually, I'd have to say it's more like DOS than Windows. If the directory is in your PATH then it'll execute, otherwise you'll have to use the ./ in front of the executable file name in a directory that is not within your PATH.
Very similar to the old DOS PATH within the autoexec.bat file.
alrighty thanks.
except for in DOS the current directory you are in is part of PATH as well, where as in *nix it isn't.