Well firstly that I’m totally stupid and that just because a program is in the directory you are looking at doesn’t actually mean that typing the name of the program is going to make it run.

Apparently you have to do ./programname.  I’ll dig the entry that I found on this and share.  I’m thinking a new sub blog might be coming up.  I think I might call it ‘Linux for Beagles’ or something!  I am winning with this linux thing thou.