How do you install an sh program?

Paul Howarth paul at city-fan.org
Fri Jul 1 10:07:55 UTC 2005


Benjamin Sher wrote:
> Dear friends:
> 
> This is an image manipulation program called XNView. I just downloaded 
> the source tarball. But I can't figure out how to install this program. 
> It must be simple. And I have installed sh programs before but there is 
> usually an install.sh file. Not here. So, how do I install it, please? I 
> wrote to the author but just got a reply that he is on vacation.
> 
> [sher at localhost XnView-1.68-x86-unknown-linux2.x-static]$ ls -l
> total 180
> drwxrwxr-x  2 sher sher  4096 Jul  1 04:24 app-defaults
> drwxrwxr-x  2 sher sher  4096 Jul  1 04:24 bin
> -rw-r--r--  1 sher sher 25778 Feb 18  2004 Formats.txt
> -rwxr-xr-x  1 sher sher  2982 Feb 18  2004 install
> drwxrwxr-x  2 sher sher  4096 Jul  1 04:24 lib
> drwxrwxr-x  2 sher sher  4096 Jul  1 04:24 man
> -rwxr-xr-x  1 sher sher   304 Feb 18  2004 nconvert.sh
> -rw-r--r--  1 sher sher  4824 Feb 18  2004 ReadMe.txt

What does ReadMe.txt say?

Paul.




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