trying on a Mac OSX machine Suse open leap OS 12.x installed…getting the following error? The file /home/mike/Downloads/Ardour-5.10.0-x86.run was opened with UTF-8 encoding but contained invalid characters.
It is set to read-only mode, as saving might destroy its content.
Either reopen the file with the correct encoding chosen or enable the read-write mode again in the tools menu to be able to edit it.
Running four 750 gig HDs, 32 gigs of ram, 8x3.0 ghz procs
mike1965: your system treated the downloaded file as if it was a text document.
You were suggested to read https://ardour.org/first_time_linux.html which explains what you need to do. Greenerpastures explained much the same things.