[SLUG] Another installation question

[john at johnallsopp.co.uk]

> <john at johnallsopp.co.uk> wrote:
>> I want to download the Java development kit which is supplied as a
>> file la-de-da-rpm.bin.
>>
>> How do I install that?
>>
>> It's an rpm, but it's a bin. What's that?
>>
> Maybe a binary?  Try executing it (make sure it has the execute bit
> set),
> e.g.
>
> ./la-de-da-rpm.bin
>
> Any joy?

Thanks yes that worked. It's not the kind of thing you stumble across
that, is it? Although I do recall being told it before in uni days.

Care to explain what it means? ./ I mean. What are we actually asking
it  to do?

J