Linux installation with *.bin file

[atze]

Hello,

I've just downloaded the bin-file, which is linked at the download page.
http://psmirror.org/PlaneShift_CBV0.3.015b.bin
Now I wonder, what I can do with it... I've tried "sh Planeschift_..._.bin" but it doesn't work ("cannot execute bin file", and yes, I've made the bin file executable).
In the forum, I've found no topic, where it is explained, how to install the game with the bin-file. Just the Planeshift_.._.run file is mentioned everywhere!
Is there anywhere a HowTo file? I have not found anything like that. At the download page is just the annotation, "Launch the run command, and it will unpack." But how???

Hope, someone can help me!!

Atze

[Bereror]

Why do you use "sh PlaneShift_CBV0.3.015b.bin"? Once you have made the file executable, just enter./PlaneShift_CBV0.3.015b.bin to the command line and it should do the job.

[atze]

Thanks!!

Will try it later!
Sorry for the question, but I'm kind of a linux noob... Don't know so very much about bin's etc...

[Rolf Blacksmith]

Just as a remark:

On Linux it doesn't really matter what, if any, ending a filename has. (However, there are some linux progs that depend on them.)

[Bigglez]

Why wouldn't "sh something.bin' work?
On my distro (Kubuntu 6.06) it's a link to Bash. So what's the diffs between:
sh something
and making it executable and:
./something

?

PS - The second option works, the first does not, so there is something going on here.

[Bereror]

sh something executes a shell script in that file.

Code: [Select]

$ echo "echo \"Hello World\"" > test.sh
$ sh test.sh

PlaneShift installer is not a shell script, but a binary installer.

[Xordan]

Therefore it isn't parsed by bash, but opened in a seperate process.

[Peacer]

hmm i think you might want to try

chmod a+x PlaneShift_CBV0.3.015b.bin