How to Run an INSTALL.sh Script on Linux in 4 Easy Steps

Enter these commands into the terminal: cd /location of file/. For example, /home/username/Documents./name_of_file.extension. Replace these with the name of the file/program and the extension (commonly .desktop in Linux or .exe (executable) or .sh (script). Make sure the file/program is marked as executable in its properties.

This means that there is no install.sh file. Linux is case-sensitive, so if you type the file name as install.sh, it won't find a file that is named, for example, INSTALL.sh. Also check for typos, like typing isntall.sh instead of install.sh. Try typing ls to list all files in the current directory. If the install.sh file is not in the current directory, you need to change into the directory with that file using the cd command.

If that's a program that someone else wrote, you can usually run "sudo make install" to install it, and then it will be possible to just type the program name. If it is a script that you wrote yourself, do the following: Add the line "#!/bin/bash" (without the quotation marks) to the beginning of the script file. Rename the file to not have ".sh" at the end, for example "test.sh" to just "test". Finally, move your file to the "/usr/bin" directory. Then, you can just type the word (in this example, "test") to execute the script. Also, when working from the Linux bash shell, you don't need to type the " | bash test.sh" part, you can just write "./test.sh".