Being a beginner with Unix OS is a painful but interesting experience. I guess I learn almost everyday few things which might be very basic but definitely challenging for a newbie like me. Few days back I wanted to install Adobe Reader on my Ubuntu 10.10. Most of the ready to install packages for Ubntu are in .deb format which can be installed like an executable file in Windows. But this package was in .deb format. Interesting! I thought. This one is not click and install package but it requires no extra terrestrial effort for sure. Following steps should be taken:

• Open the terminal and go in the directory where the /deb package is saved
• Change the access rights / permission for the .deb file/package. Most easy way is to give all rights (read, write and execute) to all users by following command: chmod a+x name_of_file.bin
• Now run the file with the following command: sudo ./name_of_file.bin