running installed programs

skewer · 04-01-2003, 06:21 AM

this is really lame, I installed a program from an rpm package and now I have a folder full of .bin files etc.
Thing is I can't get it to run, I'm wondering if there's a shell command that I need to use instead of just clicking around like a muppet

Thanks for anything you can offer,
SQR

iceman47 · 04-01-2003, 06:32 AM

to run files: ./<filename>
to install rpm's: rpm -ivh <rpmname>

Crashed_Again · 04-01-2003, 06:33 AM

Lets says you installed the wine rpm.(Since I'm having current issues with wine) After installing the rpm you can do:

whereis wine

This will spitback the location of the wine program. If there was a file called wine.bin in /usr/local/wine that you wanted to run you could do:

/usr/local/wine/wine.bin

and it would run the wine.bin executable assuming that the permissions are correct. If you are in the /usr/local/wine directory and you want to run wine.bin you would type:

./wine.bin

Hope this helps!

skewer · 04-01-2003, 06:59 AM

Cheers guys, thing is I'm now in windows since I haven't even got my dialup account setup under Mandrake. Redefining newbie, one day at a time...

While I'm here, if there's a shell script file should I run that or just hunt for a .bin? I like the sound of whereis, it should come in handy.

Thanks again,
SQR

iceman47 · 04-01-2003, 07:07 AM

for your dialup: run pppconfig as root

Sentex · 04-03-2003, 09:38 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by iceman47
to run files: ./<filename>
to install rpm's: rpm -ivh <rpmname>

Hi total noob here too. Is there a good list of commands like this somewhere? Thanks.

paneless · 04-03-2003, 10:36 PM

Yes, there are many, many, many sources of basic Linux commands and enough information out there (not to mention, here) to make any newbie an expert in a matter of... well it depends, but try this site, you'll not be disappointed.

www.google.com/linux

Sentex · 04-03-2003, 11:37 PM

thanks.