Procedure for installing a .bin file

[hodad]

I am used to using Synaptic to install files, so never learned how to install a bin file. Is there a procedure? Can't seem to grasp it from looking at other posts.

Thanks

[jerome1232]

A .bin is like a .exe, you simply run it. Set it as executable (right click, properies, permisisions tab, allow executing file as a program)

Then double click it, click run, you may have to click run in terminal, if it's poorly written and exits with some message about not having permission, you may need to pop open a terminal, type "sudo " with a space after it and no quotes, then drag and drop the file into your terminal and press enter.

[hodad]

Wow, you mean after all these years on Linux, I never learned that? Man, am I dum.

Thanks