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10-01-2001, 05:51 PM
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Aug 2001
Location: Little Rock, AR, USA
Distribution: Mandrake 8.0
Posts: 8
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cannot execute binary file....
Does anyone know what this means. I downloaded Linux Doom and now I am lost. When I type ./xdoom I get the error message that says it cannot execute the binary file.
What do I do now?
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10-01-2001, 07:33 PM
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Member
Registered: Jun 2001
Location: Centralia, WA
Posts: 274
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what all did you download? an RPM, a source file, was "xdoom" the only file downloaded? If it was I don't blame it for having problems, it probably needs libraries etc.. to run, is xdoom a script?, if you run "file xdoom" what does it return?
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10-01-2001, 10:45 PM
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Aug 2001
Location: Little Rock, AR, USA
Distribution: Mandrake 8.0
Posts: 8
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i now have a dir called doom-1.8 with the following files:
README
README.dos
README.config
README.linuxx
README.linuxs
doom1.wad
libvga.so.1@
libvga.so.1.2.0*
sdoom*
sndserver*
xdoom*
i have tried ./xdoom and ./sdoom, but it doesn't work. I have tried it as root and made sure the permissions were correct.
man linux is hard.....i love it because when you finally get something to work it feels like you really accomplished something. if only I could get this to work  |
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10-01-2001, 10:47 PM
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Aug 2001
Location: Little Rock, AR, USA
Distribution: Mandrake 8.0
Posts: 8
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oh yeah, when I type file ./xdoom i get
"./xdoom: linux/i386 demand-paged executable (ZMAGIC), stripped
no idea what that means
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10-02-2001, 01:37 AM
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Senior Member
Registered: Dec 2000
Location: Gothenburg, SWEDEN
Distribution: OpenSUSE 10.3
Posts: 1,028
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No offence!
Have you read the README files, and if so what did they say?
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