Setup file from a trusted third-party installer

[Myriam Schweingruber]

On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 15:41, john d. herron <paradox.herron at bluewin.ch> wrote:
> Hi, all.
> From a trusted website I've just downloaded a setup file with a name like
> "xyz_setup.bin" which will, if I understand correctly, create some sort of
> java browser.

This is a binary which needs to be executable, which you can do with

sudo chown +x xyz_setup.bin

I guess you then can just start it as every shell script, with

./xyz_setup.bin

Hope this helps.


Regards, Myriam

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