Linux is more scared of you than you are of it.pandawife_aJune 22 2008, 01:54:48 UTC
I may be able to explain this to you better than the directions, which assume a good amount of knowledge of linux! You'll need to execute commands from the shell, though, but that's easy like pie.
So if you're on a linux machine, I'm going to assume you'll get the (weird GAP name thing).tar.gz download package. I wouldn't be surprised if that were a read-only file (or something that looks like a read-only file). BUT, if it shouldn't be read-only, you can type into the shell: chmod -x (weird GAP name thing).tar.gz which will allow you to execute it, if you are in fact the owner of the file. NOTE: you will have to be in the file's directory to execute that command. More on that later!
It's a compressed...thing...that needs to be unpacked. You'll need to do this on the command line in the same directory as the file exists. If you know what directory it's in (and you should, as you just downloaded it), you can get to it in the shell by using the change directory command: cd (directory name)where (directory name) is the directory you
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So if you're on a linux machine, I'm going to assume you'll get the (weird GAP name thing).tar.gz download package. I wouldn't be surprised if that were a read-only file (or something that looks like a read-only file). BUT, if it shouldn't be read-only, you can type into the shell:
chmod -x (weird GAP name thing).tar.gz
which will allow you to execute it, if you are in fact the owner of the file. NOTE: you will have to be in the file's directory to execute that command. More on that later!
It's a compressed...thing...that needs to be unpacked. You'll need to do this on the command line in the same directory as the file exists. If you know what directory it's in (and you should, as you just downloaded it), you can get to it in the shell by using the change directory command:
cd (directory name)where (directory name) is the directory you ( ... )
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You are so helpful. If I hadn't already given up and gotten someone to do it for me this would have been absolutely wonderful!
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