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On Friday 09 March 2007 20:14, james kilty wrote: > On Fri, 2007-03-09 at 18:17 +0000, Mark Jose wrote: > > Hmm... OK, it should have worked that way. In the properties bit again, > > who is shown as the owner of the file? If it is your user name, then it > > should work. > > Yes it is james > > > If it is root, then you won't have permissions to open it - which would > > give that scenario. > > Perhaps easiest to do as Tom said and use the command line if that is the > > case. > > Simply open a Konsole and type in > > > > sudo chmod +x /home/james/Desktop/filename.bin > > This just gives me a new blank line. > > > and press enter - you will need to give your user password for that when > > you have hit enter of course. Substitute your real user name for james > > and the correct file name for the bin :) > > snip > > > You may find you would have had less problems if you had installed > > realplay or whatever it is called via Adept. That should work fine with > > the beeb I assume. > > I just tried this. It said > > "There was an error committing changes. Possibly there was a problem > downloading some packages or or the commit would break packages." > > Thanks you should now have a file wot is executable so in a terminal window (where you typed sudo....) /home/james/Desktop/realplayer10gold.bin this should set it going ! Tom te tom te tom -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html