how to install a .run file?

[martin]

Hello.

Today i downloaded a graphics card driver from NVidia. it is a .run file.

How can I install this file / driver ???

When I go to the Yast software manager and try to locate a file, it doesnt
really seem to accept .run files. only .xml or something like that.

Regards,

martin

[Nikos Chantziaras]

lol

Sorry, couldn't resist.

It's a program. You RUN it. If it's not executable, you make it
executable with `chmod +x blabla.run` and run it with `./blabla.run`

[ray]

in a terminal window 'cd' to the directory with the file and type "./
whateverthefileis.run" - but you'd probably be better off with the driver
from the repository.

[Uwe Grauer]

See:
http://en.opensuse.org/Nvidia#The_hard_way

Uwe

[martin]

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I can imagine! ;-)

but when I made the file executable... and clicked on it: the HD started
working for a while without any sign of activity on the screen. And then the
HD comes to rest and still nothing happened. or SEEMED to have happened.

martin

[houghi]

martin wrote:
>> It's a program. You RUN it. If it's not executable, you make it executable
>> with `chmod +x blabla.run` and run it with `./blabla.run`
>
> I can imagine! ;-)
>
> but when I made the file executable... and clicked on it:

So people tell you to RUN and you CLICK.

There also is no reason to chmod +x it. Also I am sure that on the
website where you downloaded it, there will be an explanation on what to
do.

Anywho : `sh blabla.run` in a terminal should work.

houghi
--
The whole principle [of censorship] is wrong. It's like demanding that
grown men live on skim milk because the baby can't have steak.
-- Robert A. Heinlein in "The Man Who Sold the Moon"

[David Bolt]

On Wed, 25 Jun 2008, martin wrote:-

<snip>

>but when I made the file executable... and clicked on it:

Oops.

>the HD started
>working for a while without any sign of activity on the screen. And then the
>HD comes to rest and still nothing happened. or SEEMED to have happened.

It's a console program and you need to start it using a command line.
That way, you can feed it the information it needs[0] as the script
runs.

[0] If it's anything like the one I used years ago, before it even
starts to make the driver interface you need to accept the license.

Regards,
David Bolt

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