Setup file from a trusted third-party installer

[Reinhold Rumberger]

Am Freitag 27 November 2009 schrieb john d. herron:
> Hi, all.
>  From a trusted website I've just downloaded a setup file with a
>  name like "xyz_setup.bin" which will, if I understand correctly,
>  create some sort of java browser.
> There are no instructions on how to set it up, but its icon looks
>  like that of an ordinary bash script.
> Any suggestions on how I should proceed?

You may want to check the file type by using the command:
file xyz_setup.bin

  --Reinhold