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You cant display those kinds of files through a gui. Do this EXACTLY, go into a terminal (you know what that is right? Usualy its a little monitor thing with a shell on it, or close to it. Now do the following...
$ chmod a+x something.bin
$ ./something.bin
And it should go, but sometimes you need to be in root. soo...
$su
password: << type your root password here.
# ./something.bin
i recently downloaded the realplayer 10 for linux. i am having another problem , the running of the bin file indicates like follows :
[root@localhost tmp]# ./RealPlayer10GOLD.bin
Extracting files for RealPlayer installation...
Error: short read (4296333/7007132 bytes) (Invalid argument)
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is it because the bin file was not downloaded properly, should i re-download and try again. i did all what was told in the beginning by you!!! please do help, old version of real player sux...........
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