[GLLUG] RE: Distro of Choice?

[Lachniet, Mark]

Hmmm... I'm a little confused - are you trying to open it right from the
download dialog?  Did you simply save it to disk and execute it from a
shell?

Mark Lachniet 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael Martin [mailto:michiganmike4msu at juno.com] 
> Sent: Tuesday, August 17, 2004 10:10 PM
> To: Lachniet, Mark
> Cc: linux-user at egr.msu.edu
> Subject: Re: [GLLUG] RE: Distro of Choice?
> 
> 
> I am currently using SuSE 9.  I am satisfied with it, except 
> for the way it handles executable files.  I have downloaded 
> several free programs I would like to use.  However, when I 
> try to install, I get a message that SuSE has detected it is 
> an executable file and will not allow it to open.
> 
> I bought this to put on an old computer my son and I put 
> together out of extra parts he had.  And I do not know enough 
> about any OS to find a fix.  I looked in every part of SuSe I 
> could get into and could find no way to override this.  So, I 
> am waiting for Mandrake 10 to arrive in the mail and 
> hopefully eliminate the problem that way.  
> 
> Anyone have any solutions (in layman's terms) that I could try?
> 
> MichiganMike
> 
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