Re: [Update REQ 5883]: Geomview Linux installation

[pmiddents at kendaco.telebyte.com]

Thanks for your very prompt reply. I downloaded the file 1.5.x-linux-elf.tar.gz, 
"unpacked" it using gunzip and tried to execute the result by typing "geomview". 
I got the same result as before "bin/bash: ./geomview Unable to execute binary 
file"

The file seemed to unpack sucessfully to over 10 MB. I could view both the 
zipped and the unzipped version and the verbage was unchanged.

There must be some really fundamental step I'm missing in all this. 

My knowlege of Unix/Linux is based entirely on a successful (I think) 
installation of Linux from a Slackware CD ROM. I compiled a kernel 1.2.8 for my 
system and setup XWindows using X11R6. Geomview is the first application beyond 
those included in the Slackware distribution I've attempted and is the primary 
reason I have installed Linux on my system. 

I say all of this so you won't assume I know anything that might be obvious to 
even a novice Unix user.

Paul Middents 
Olympic College 
Bremerton, WA