Okay. I started in with Linux about a week ago now, and I have most of the things I need working. But I just downloaded a game demo to play with on my lunch breaks and I can't seem to get the exacutable to run. I'm running mandrake 8.1, and I unfortunatly don't know any console commands. I downloaded the game as a zip and uncompressed it into a folder on my desktop. The game is multiplatform and has exacutables for several diffrent OS's (win, linux, solaris, etc) I click on the Linux one and a console window pops up briefly then closes and nothing happens. Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.

what kind of file extension does it have.. .bin, .tar.gz, .rpm.. ?? then we can go from there to tell you how to install, also what game is it ?

Well I feel kind of stupid because I can't seem to find out what the extension is. It's Icon is a gear, and when I go to the properties of the item it sais that it is of type "exacutable" it's the demo for a game called "Conquest of Elysium"

If there is any other way for me to see the file extension let me know.

well... try opening up a terminal window in the directory the game's executable is in, and type out the name of the file you're trying to run. you should get the same thing - a window popping up and the closing - but, more importantly, you'll get any error messages the program might report in the console - those will probably help.

Unfortunatly i've yet to learn my way around a Linux console, so I can open the console, I just don't know the commands to get to the right directory. I'm looking for a page now that has basic navigational commands.

Scott

Thank you all for your help. I got the program to run. I just needed to exacute the exacutable from a command line and not by clicking on the icon.

Oh and I figured out how to navigate directories. Same as in Dos but case sensative. That is why I hadn't gotten it to work before.

Thanks again.

Scott