Ending in bin

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Fri, 2010-04-30 at 20:04 -0400, terry wrote:
> I d/l adobe reader he file comes with  an ending of '.bin'. I get the 
> feeling  yum nor rpm will not work. If I am incorrect, how do they work. 
> If not, what make the file come apart.
> Thank you

Type:

file the-file-you-downloaded.bin

That will tell you what kind of file it is. If it says "shell script
text" then type:

sh the-file-you-downloaded.bin

However are you sure you need the Abode PDF reader? In most cases you
don't. Linux has several free programs that can read PDF files, e.g.
okular or evince.

poc