Before stating my problem, I will go ahead and mention that I have looked through other threads about .bin files, but I'm running into an error that I haven't seen answered.

When attempting to run this .bin file, linux acts as if it doesn't know what a .bin is: looked through the forums and found out that it could be turned into an executable with chmod.

Attempted to "chmod +x" my JRE file. Linux doesn't know that "chmod +x" means.. so now I'm stuck.

jre-6u23-linux-i586.bin is in location home/me/downloads

Should I be attempting to run it through a path such as: chmod +x home/me/downloads jre-6u23-linuc-i586.bin or is there some other more obvious way?

While waiting for an answer, I noticed that the terminal may be trying to find the file on my desktop.. going to move the file to my desktop and try once more.

Edit: No such luck, moving it back to the download folder to keep the original question intact.

You have to be in the directory where the file is or chmod +x /path/to/file foo.bin

Well, then could you give me a bit of an explanation about how to get terminal to move to the folder?

open a terminal and cd (change directory) to/where/you/put/ jre-6u23-linux-i586.bin assume root "su" or sudo cp jre-6u23-linux-i586.bin /usr/lib/ then type
sh /usr/lib/jre-6u23-linux-i586.bin accept terms and then you are installed. Then type rm /usr/lib/jre-6u23-linux-i586.bin to delete the bin file after it has been extracted.
The bin file is a self extracting archive that runs a script that asks you to accept the terms of the program. The command "sh" tell the system to run it as a executable script. Type man chmod when done reading pres q.
Look here for commands

Can't seem to get it to do anything now.

Correction to the last post. I tried it, after changing /usr/lib to the correct directory amanda/lib and.. this happened.


amanda@amanda-desktop:~/Downloads$ sudo cp jre-6u23-linux-i586.bin /amanda/lib
cp: cannot create regular file `/amanda/lib': No such file or directory
amanda@amanda-desktop:~/Downloads$

Actually, using what you said I fixed the problem. And installed all necessary files to play the game. Now I'm having a problem with the game, but I'll ask about that on their forums. Thanks to everyone who helped me.

ok I hope it gets better. If you would have told us the O/S like Ubuntu or slackware we could have just installed it from repository with a click of a mouse or a stroke of a key.