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How come my console doesn't know what to do with "FAH502-Linux.exe"?

Not sure how to run it from the GUI. I bring up a terminal to a command line and run it from my directory like this:

cd /home/egon/fah
./FAH504-Linux.exe > /dev/null 2> err.log &

You need the dot-slash in front of it so it knows it's an executable. The next part pipes any output to a file. The trailing ampersand tells it to run in the background. That way I can close up the terminal and it'll still be running as a process.

Anyone feel free to correct me, or elaborate on this, as I'm nowhere near an expert in the land of Linux!

69 posted on 07/10/2006 4:30:22 PM PDT by Egon (We are number one! All others are number two... or lower.)

Thanks. I tried to run it from the console, I just didn't have the complete command (because I have a lot to learn about Linux). I was able to use Easy Ubuntu to install Firefox plugins and several other conveniences. The kind souls who created that understood ignorant, frustrated newbies. [like me] I really like (K)Ubuntu.

71 posted on 07/10/2006 4:53:14 PM PDT by Clara Lou (A conservative is a liberal who has been mugged by reality. --I. Kristol)

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