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And exactly how dit you run it? What is it supposed to do? Are you sure you made it executable for yourself? Is it a binary file or a script you wrote? Did you get any error messages?
Open a term, type /usr/local/bin/steam (or in most cases just steam). Remember thet *NIX shells are case-sensitive. I lost hlaf an hour trying to run vmac when I had to run VMac... LOL
i run it through "/progname" and it just sits there. it doesn't give me an error message
or when i try to transfer it over to the /usr/local/bin it gives me an error message saying:
"Access denied.
Could not write to /usr/local/bin/steam."
P.S. "Steam" is the executable file
You don't have to copy it there inorder to get it to work. It's only a convenience so that you can just run it like I said above; with only the filename. If you aren't going to use it uch or if it doesn't matter much where you run it, you can keep it in your home directory and run it with ./Steam .
Anyway, good thing that you cannot write to /usr/local/bin. Only root should be able to write there. You can, though, put it there as root, give yourself permission to run it, and run it as a user.
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