Re: Newbie --Adding Programs To My Debian Base

[Will Lowe <harpo@udel.edu>]

On Tue, 20 Jan 1998, IBMackey wrote:

> I've been using debian for about 5 weeks. I'm just starting to think about
> adding some programs, not in the packages, to my system. One such program
> came in the form of "program.bin.gz". I figure I can use my debian gunzip
> to get the first part of it unzipped. I have no idea what to do with the
> "program.bin". Any help is sorely appreciated.

Unzip it and put "program.bin" in /usr/local/bin/

Then make sure /usr/local/bin is in your path,  and run the program from
the command line with 

program.bin

						Will


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