Acrobat Reader INSTALL won't run

[BluesRenegade]

Environment:

Mandrakelinux 10.1 Community

GNOME Terminal 2.6.1

 

1.) I unzipped linux-509.tar.gz in /home/blues/acrobat directory.

2.) I read the README.

3.) I entered INSTALL at the prompt and get the following error msg:

 

bash: INSTALL: command not found

 

What next folks? Thanks in advance!

 

Blues

[chris z]

the command is ./INSTALL.

 

see my posts in This Thread for other info.

 

Chris

[aRTee]

try:

./install

 

as a security measure, the executables in your working dir are not directly executable, so you have to use ./ to indicate that's what you really want.

 

Consider this: you create a script called ls that changes the password of the person executing it, runs some other evil stuff, like post a message somewhere that this password has been changed, etcetc, and finishes off with execution of the true command 'ls'.

The sysadmin is looking at something in the dir you stuck this, and wants to see what files are there... Voila, you just got root access...

 

 

The technical description for not being able to execute things in the dir you're in is: "the working directory is not in your path".

[crispus]

I found that the linux-509.tar.gz file is missing some pieces and that when you run the install script, it doesn't put everything where it is supposed to go.

 

Look for linux-506.tar.gz and all will be well.

 

I did this just last night.

 

Regards,

Crispus