Greetings,

When I try to run a program in Terminal with run ./program, I get the error "bash: run: command not found".

I am using Mandrake Linux 10.1

Thanks

The './' means to execute a program in your current directory. If you want to execute a command, you should be able to just type in the name of the program. If that doesn't work, you need to locate the executable in the file system and then run it by doing, '/path/to/command/file/program_name'

Why are you issuing the 'run' command before the program's name? It's not needed. You could at most run 'sh programname', but that's something else.
Just type the program's name at the command prompt and press Enter. Also, placing a './' in front of the program's name means that your program is located in the current directory (and it also has the right permissions). Otherwise, the program must be within your path, which can be displayed by running 'echo $PATH'. Sometimes, it's possible for a program to exist on your machine, but to be accesible only by root if it is located in /sbin or /usr/sbin.
Anyway, to find out where your program is, run 'whereis program' or 'locate program'.

It won't work :-(

Programs I download won't run when I doubleclick them.

Someone told me to type run ./program while in the prgram's directory.
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...hreadid=316068

Now I have also tried just typing the name of the program. And I have tried .program and /program.

The programs are in a folder on the desktop.

I installed Linux thikning it was point and click. Now I am getting very discouraged because things don't work.

Thanks

Don't type "run", just type the command, like "./firefox-installer".

depending on what browser you are using, you should be able to click on "firefox-installer.bin" and it should run the program. As it stands right now, Linux is definitely not point and click ( that would defeat the whole purpose of open source, having access to the source code so you can modify, contribute, tweak, etc... it to your liking)

Before I continue trying to onstall this I should find out if one must go through this with every program to install?

You can't just dowble-click the prrogram to install?

I tried typing ./firefox-installer and got the message:

"./firefox-installer-bin: error while loading shared libraries: libstdc++.so.5: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory"

I am using Mandrake 10.1 with Gnome.

this occurs because Mandrake ships with gcc-3.4.x, but firefox is compiled on an older version (3.3.x).
to install packages you need to set up urpmi ( do a google for easyurpmi or search these forums for it). urpmi is mandrakes package manager and should be used whenever possible ( once you set it up, you can get a Mandrake 10.1 version of firefox)

Man, did you ever choose the wrong OS

The easiest way to install software is with the package manager that comes with your distro - in your case, that's RPMs, I believe.

The firefox installer isn't an RPM, so it won't be as easy to install.

Are you installing it as root, or as your normal user?

Currently, a normal user, but I can do it either way.

I want prgrams to be usable by all users.

See my sig for a link to EasyURPMI.

You *can* install FireFox via urpmi, but it isn't the latest version on the official mirrors. thac or sgrayban may have the latest on their mirrors.