how to unpak .sh files
 

I'am trying to install the quake 3 linux demo on red hat 7.3 but how do I unpak .sh files? its acually a .gz.sh file.
Any help?

./filename.sh should run that. If not, try sh filename.sh

All that a bash prompt btw.

HTH

how do I open a .gz.sh file tho. When I try to sh filename.gz.sh it it doesn't appear to do anything tho after I type it it pauses for a sec but doesn't do anything that I can see.

Maybe try "file <filename>" first and see what it *really* is.

Did it return a shell prompt after "it did nothing"?

when I do sh filename.gz.sh
it pops window up very quick then does nothing else
when I try /filename.gz.sh it says file not found and my friend said do ./filename.gz.sh and when I did that it said bash: ./linuxq3ademo-1.11-6.x86.gz.sh: /bin/sh: bad interpreter: Permission denied
I'am in root BTW

do
chmod 755 linuxq3ademo-1.11-6.x86.gz.sh
./linuxq3ademo-1.11-6.x86.gz.sh

thx neo that worked now i Jsut need to get direct rendering working cuz right now it is direct rendering: no :(

who's the owner of the file? maybe u have to change ownership to root to run it.
bad idea?
cheers, jens

Just found this thread through a search - only 6 months late!
Anyhow, to install this it's:

sh linuxq3ademo-1.11-6.x86.gz.sh -xwin