Re: [Update REQ 5883]: Geomview Linux installation

[tor at cs.brown.edu]

The words of pmiddents at kendaco.telebyte.com come drifting out of the ether:
> 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"

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

I think the step that you're omitting is untarring the archive.
Try the following steps (where geomview.tar.gz is the name of the
archive you obtained from us):
	% gunzip geomview.tar.gz
	% tar xvf geomview.tar
	% cd Geomview
	% ./geomview

-tor

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