I am new to linux so forgive silly questions!
I am trying to install VNC to my linux box and i have downloaded the tar file which i seem to have unzipped OK!
however the readme file tells me to run vncinstall which is a perl script but when i double click on it in the file manager window (i am using Konqueror) i get an error message saying "Couldn't find the program vncinstall"
Now i know i'm new to linux but this seems ridiculous!
I just clicked the program ! how can it NOT find it?

is it me being stupid?

thanks

Mike Pooley

It cannot find it because there are no sufficient permissions provided, and if you know it is a perl script why don't you run it from a console
cd where/vnc/untarred/
perl vncinstall
or
chmod 755 vncinstall
./vncinstall

Thanks for reply but i gave some wrong information !!
it is a Shell script !

I still didnt understand what you mean by permissions, how can i alter this?
I am logged in as root so i thought i had permission to do anything!

please remember i have had linux for only a few days and i dont understand much!
I am used to Winxp and if you double click a program in file manager it runs!
I cant see why this doesn't

mike

Two possible solutions then:
right click on the file in konq and get to permissions tab check the read, write, execute permissions for owner, and read/exec for for group and others, also you might want to check run in terminal in a main properties tab (I don't know its name I don't use it), and try double-clicking on it. THe second way is my prefered one, but I am not trying to convince you that it is the way the things must be done - open up Konsole/Xterm navigate to the directory where it is
[shell prompt]$ cd where/vnc/untarred/
[shell prompt]$ chmod 755 vncinstall
[shell prompt]$ ./vncinstall
Another thing just occured to me, the reason that you couldn't run the script within konq is that you $PATH env variable doesn't include current directory as a point for search, that's why you might get "not found" error, so I think the first method prescribed by me won't do the trick either, but the second one works in any case.