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Dathmor 10-24-2004 11:30 PM

.bin question
 
Well this is a preatty noob question, but I installed red hat linux 9 last night with gnome terminal, I download half life dedicated server, its a bin file, but when I try to run it (clicking on it) it says no installed viewer capable of displaying the file, so I'm curios how I install the file so I can run a server. thank you in advance to anyone who can answer my question

bigrigdriver 10-25-2004 12:50 AM

Check the permissions on the file (right click, then select properties). It's probably not executable. Make it executable then try again.
Or,
From the command-line: cd to the directory that contains the file, then give the command 'chmod +x <filename>' (without quotes), then try again.


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