Ubuntu
nautilus package

".bin" program installers

Bug #533592 reported by Leonardo Torok on 2010-03-07

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #310426: Cannot execute files that end in ".bin". Edit Remove

This bug affects 2 people

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	Nautilus	New	Undecided	Unassigned
	nautilus (Ubuntu)	New	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

Some softwares come with installers with the extension ".bin". Click on them results in a error. If I remove the extension, they are executed normally as any shell-script.

This problem occurs with Google Earth and some governamental softwares distributed in this form. It would be more user-friendly execute these files normally, since novice users might not know the above procedure to execute them.

Revision history for this message

Vish (vish) wrote on 2010-04-13:

Thank you for bringing this bug to our attention. However, a paper cut should be a small usability issue, in the default Ubuntu install, that affects many people and is quick and easy to fix. So this bug can't be addressed as part of this project.

For further information about papercuts criteria, please read https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PaperCut.

Don't worry though, this bug has been marked as "Invalid" only in the papercuts project.

Changed in hundredpapercuts:
status:	New → Invalid
affects:	hundredpapercuts → nautilus
Changed in nautilus:
status:	Invalid → New

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Vish (vish) wrote on 2010-04-13:

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This particular bug has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug 310426, so it is being marked as such. Please look at the other bug report to see if there is any missing information that you can provide, or to see if there is a workaround for the bug. Additionally, any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Please continue to report any other bugs you may find.