Dave Gutteridge 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.
file '/path/to/file' will tell you. But you still need to give execute
permissions.
>
> 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.
use ls -l
Files with a 'x' in the permissions are executable.
oowrite or something like that for word processing.
