that doesnt make sense to me what you said...
what is the filename that you downloaded? what is the link that you downloaded it from if you know it

Ok, I am in the right directory, now if I want to install LimeWire or BitTorrent, what is the code? I don't know anything about this. I have hit

sh ./LimeWireLinux.bin

apt-get LimeWireLinux

apt-get LimeWireLinux.b

apt-get sh ./LimeWireLinux.bin

[EDIT] Ok, here is the link...
Here
I downloaded this rom file, and I extracted it. All I know now is that there is a file that says limewire, and the little icon has an SH symbol.

apt-get searches the web for the install packages, not utilizing the ones you downloaded.

do man apt-get for more info.

a file with an extention of .sh or .run should be run:

bash filename

try that.

what is the link to the .bin file you downlaoded or whatever file you downloaded? im not sure exactly what to type, tell me the link and ill see what i have to type and let you know

The following is gibberish to me. Maybe you can desipher

bobby@cpe-24-174-165-252:~ $ cd "/home/bobby/My Downloads"
bobby@cpe-24-174-165-252:~/My Downloads $ apt-get sh ./LimeWireLinux.bin
E: Invalid operation sh
bobby@cpe-24-174-165-252:~/My Downloads $ apt-get LimeWireLinux.bin
E: Invalid operation LimeWireLinux.bin
bobby@cpe-24-174-165-252:~/My Downloads $ apt-get LimeWireLinux
E: Invalid operation LimeWireLinux
bobby@cpe-24-174-165-252:~/My Downloads $ bash LimeWireLinux.bin
LimeWireLinux.bin: LimeWireLinux.bin: No such file or directory
bobby@cpe-24-174-165-252:~/My Downloads $ bash LimeWireLinux
LimeWireLinux: LimeWireLinux: No such file or directory
bobby@cpe-24-174-165-252:~/My Downloads $ bash limewire
limewire: line 2: cd: /usr/lib/LimeWire: No such file or directory
runLime.sh: runLime.sh: No such file or directory
bobby@cpe-24-174-165-252:~/My Downloads $

How did you guys learn this stuff? It has taken me a day to just figure out how to download something, just following directions, yet you guys can put it together and make meaning out of what might as well be chinese to me.

That's because we've been using Linux a while.

It's a REAL Operating System. Not Wintendo.

type the following:

man apt-get
look at what that produces. the Q key quits.

then type
man sh
or
man bash

again, Q quits.

That will give you understanding of the syntax. Remember Linux is case dependent...

What is the different between apt-get and synaptic?

I didn't understand the man sh.

I used MS because I didn't know of anything different. I am trying to learn

i believe the difference is that synaptic is a front-end/graphical version of apt

So if I have a program in My Download folder, what is the command line to run it? Right now, I have an extracted folder of Phex, which is filled with .jar files, a LimeWireLinux.rpm, a BitTorrent rpm. and a few others, none of which I know how to install.

The "man" command pulls up the manual entry for the given command.

If you get no manual entry, it usually means you don't have that application installed.

If you type:

man sh

you get the manual entry for the sh shell. It'll giv eyou some history, examples of syntax and some other thing.

if you type:

man cd

you get the manual entry for the change directory command...

and so on...

Nothing happened when I hit man cd

does nothing happen? or does it display "No manual entry for cd"

No manual entry for cd

Is there no one command that I would type to install any rpm file in my "My Downloads" file?

rpms are installed with the rpm command (go figure).

type:

man rpm

for proper syntax.

If you get no manual entry for rpm, that means you have no rpm support. RPMs are Redhat Pakage Manager files. RPM based distros include Fedora Core, SuSE, Mandrake and a few others.

to run binaries, symply type:

bash binaryname