It's probably a .tar or .tar.gz. The CD has a directory with a couple
hundred files in it (including a README) that you install from.
-- Rod
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On Mon, 03 Jul 2000, you wrote:
> Hello All:
>
> I hope that my simple question will be forgiven on such a slow day :-)
> I downloaded SO5.2 as a single file for my RH 6.1 Linux box.
>
> The file looks like this: so-5_2-ga-bin-linux-en.bin. I'm used to tar
> and rpm files that are d/l but not this type. According to Sun's web
> site directions I'm supposed to run this in the c/l. Well, I tried that
> and others and this is what I got:
>
> [root@antioch StarOffice]# ll
> total 95436
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 97621364 Jul 3 09:55
> so-5_2-ga-bin-linux-en.bin
> [root@antioch StarOffice]# so-5_2-ga-bin-linux-en.bin
> bash: so-5_2-ga-bin-linux-en.bin: command not found
> [root@antioch StarOffice]# ./so-5_2-ga-bin-linux-en.bin
> bash: ./so-5_2-ga-bin-linux-en.bin: Permission denied
>
> As you can see I'm running as root and in the dir of the file.
>
> Where am I going wrong here? A search of Sun's site didn't reveal much
> help at all.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Mike
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