Cannot execute binary file

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Published on 2014-06-08T21:36:55Z Indexed on 2014/06/08 21:40 UTC
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I am new to Ubuntu and I'm trying to install Popcorn Time. I downloaded 32 bit version and tried to install it but that's where the problem started showing. I duble clicked the executable file and well, nothing happened. It's a official download from their web-site but it doesn't work. Maybe I'm doing something wrong.....Anyway, I found out that you can insatll it from a script, but people keep talking in ubuntu terms and I don't understand it, so I have a few questions:

1.How to make a script? (witch I'm suppose to run in terminal using bash comand),

2.Is it normal that i cannot run the installer, and if that is an installer or just files for the program.

3.If it is an installer, how do I make it work?

4.What does " Cannot execute binary file" mean?

Thank you in advance, hope I'm not asking too many questions(please understand that I'm new to ubuntu) and sorry about my English. xD

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