hey guys i just installed SuSE linux 9.10 but i have a few problems, well not big problems just can't do a few things, like when i try to change the time, the window to change the time opens and then closes by itself, and another thing is after i compile a C program i get the binary file output but i can't execute it. any ideas how this could be fixed.. thanks

I don't know what the problem is with the clock problem, but there are two possibilities for the second. Make sure that the execute bit is set on the program file using the chmod program. Ex: chmod o+x ,will give the owner of the file execution permission. The other possibility is that the program isn't located in an execution path. You can either execute the program by preceding it with the "./" characters to explicitly specify the path. You you could create a ~/bin directory and add this directory to your PATH variable in the ~/.profile script. I did that later, and place scripts I create there.

There is another possibility that is less likely. If you own a file and don't have execution rights, you will not be able to execute the file, even if you have group execution rights. However, you would probably create a file with these permissions only if that was the behavior you wanted.

no it's not the permissions on it coz im getting a message saying command not found... oh and how do i take screen shots on linux?

i'm gonna guess you have suse 9.1 personal...if thats the case the compiling tools weren't included with the distro. you can download them from the suse website, i believe.

for the screenshot, open gimp, click file>aquire>screenshot

i have the 5 cd set... i think that's the personal one, but no i have the C compiler installed, i compiled my program but i cna't execute it
and thx for the screenshot found

Try typing './' before the executable name, sometimes './' isn't in the path