[wellylug] more newbie questions.

[Richard Hector]

Glen Ogilvie wrote:
> 
> On Saturday 27 January 2001 21:59, you wrote:
> > Thanks to all for the replies so far.
> >
> > I have managed to download Star Office.
> >
> > How do I go about installing it? It has the extension of .bin, which
> > I assume to mean binary, but what do I do with it now?
> 
> I expect it's a shell script that will unpack itself and do a custom install..


It's an binary executable - you may need to change the permissions to be
able to run it. The setup guide is not bad; I think it was a pdf file
which I downloaded from sun also. If you don't want to download and
print it, and you're close by (I'm in Northland), I could probably lend
you my copy. Anyway, whenever it refers to running 'setup', you use this
file instead. Some people have suggested renaming it to 'setup'.

I used the network install (as root), then the user install as me - so
if I ever need to let someone else use it, it doesn't take up so much
space. Also, if I need to reinstall it, I don't lose all my personal
settings and files.

> To find this out, try doing a cat filename | head

Better is to use 'file filename' to tell you what sort of file it is.

> > I assume now that email virus's are a windows thing now?
> Most e-mail virus's are written to run on the Windows operating system yes,
> and Linux does not suffer from the problems that windows creates. You can
> only possible have a problem if you receive an attachment that is Linux
> specific, and you choose to run it. However, that will be really difficult
> for you to do.

The other thing is, as long as you log in as a normal user rather than
root, the virus (because it runs with your permissions) can only trash
your stuff, not the whole system.

Richard