WaveMaker 6.4.5GA

Having recently installed Fedora to have a go at this, I'd downloaded the rpm for WaveMaker 6.4.5.

I figured I'd installed it, and things were going well enough except that I was getting a 404 resource cannot be found error for the ConfigurationTool webapp.  (The /ConfigurationTool path is configured to point to the  studioConfig directory in /opt/wavemaker-6.4.5GA - though it seems you can only see this if you check the Catalina config in /tmp/WaveMakerXXXXX when you've started WaveMaker up.)

Anyway, I downloaded and installed the rpm for 6.4.4 and that studioConfig directory has *way* more files in it.  Problem solved for me.

(Haven't reported this to the WaveMaker people because I'm not sure it wasn't my rpm download or install problem.  I've been doing this over a couple of days and I haven't used Linux in several years...)

Newbie-sillies on Fedora 16

I was trying to install a .run file (for PostgreSQL as it happens) and it just didn't seem to be working.
I was wondering things like "Does Fedora support .run files?" or "Is there some package installer I need to feed it to?" and it turned out that.... one needs to chmod the file (or use the Properties context-menu in Nautilus) to set it executable.
Do more newbie-orientated distributions at least display an "I'm not running this because it's not executable" warning?