hi all, I'm running backtrack 2 as linux distro. i downloaded Wolfenstein ET for linux. it is a .run file, but whenever I try to install, it just open KWrite and shows me just code without executing it. Howto now?

why would you ever want to run games on backtrack2??? backtrack is for network securit and such, really not a place for games. sounds like you just need to set the file as executable though.

well the issue is that I don't want to have like thousand distro's, so it will have to work on backtrack, now well, you said what I have to do, but now how plz, cuz I'm quite new

In linux, nothing is executable by default, you have to tell the system that the ET install script you downloaded is meant to be run as a program.

As root:

The 'a' stands for all users, so you'll be able to execute the script from a user account. The 'x' means executable. You could also set permissions on a file like read-only, or read write by changing the X to r, rw, or whatever.

Once you've made your install script an executable, run it in the terminal with:

and it will run just dandy! Don't forget to also download the latest point release and patch yourself up once you get it running.

ok thanx mate, I used "sudo sh xxxx" but what you said, is handy, because now I learned something new again, thanx everybody for replying. (k)