On 8/4/05, Dave Gutteridge <dave at tokyocomedy.com> wrote: > > This is one of those questions that seems to be soo obvious to people > that no one feels the need to have an explanation anywhere. I've been > looking around the net for ages, and I can't figure out what, on Linux, > is actually a program. > > I've downloaded OpenOffice 1.9 Beta, and would like to run it. I go to > the /opt/openoffice.org1.9.122/program/ directory and... then what? What > do I run to start the thing? I've hunted around with ls, and I thought > bin files were the thing, but they don't seem to run. > > I'm trying to run the program, associate the program with .ods files, > and get some icons in my task bar. But I can't do any of those if I > don't know what is actually the program. > use ls -al and look for an x in the permissions (for eXecutable) -- Leonard Isham, CISSP Ostendo non ostento.