How to open "pkg" and "bin" files? (trying to install Opera)

1

As for the network everything working fine and I downloaded the Opera installation file which is “bin” file.

How to open it on Haiku?

Also what is “pkg” and how to open it on Haiku?

Is a driver from BeOS can work also on Haiku?

2

The Opera installation “bin” is just an executable installer. There’s nothing special about it. You should be able to just double-click to run it.

I recommend right-clicking on it in tracker and specifying “Identify” to see if that helps, maybe it wasn’t made executable when it was downloaded.

.pkg is a special format that was supported on BeOS (I believe this was what SoftwareValet did - it doesn’t run on Haiku) - there is a project to re-create an installer that supports this format, but I don’t believe it’s complete yet.

3

I’ve been testing the PackageInstaller from my GSOC student Łukasz Zemczak and it is looking pretty good. After a few more tweaks and changes I will add it to our repository and our image. I’m sure it won’t be perfect, but we hope it will open most package files. Obviously if it does not a bug report can be logged and we will try to fix it. Since the pkg format was proprietary and not documented, we had to backwards engineer it.

4

Thank you for your comments!

Somehow I can’t open the “bin” file of Opera.
When I’m doing hex dump on it I can see “EOS:M:” as the header.

5

Hi Ziv,

I found to install Opera I had to open a Terminal, cd to where the Opera bin file was, chmod +x on the bin file, and then ./[the name of the Opera bin file] to run the installer.

I hope this helps!

6

Or, you could have right clicked on the file and selected “get info” and clicked the drop down and checked all the execute check boxes… same thing just in the GUI.