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im completly new to using linux (madrake 9.2) and i just downloaded a game of the net and i have no idea how to install it, plz someone walk me threw it (form the gnome desktop. Thx a lot for any help
i did extract it from a "tarball" and when i click on it, it just opens it up in a text reader and im clueless as of what to do next. What else do you want to know?
Best to do it in a shell (terminal, konsole, gterm etc. etc.). First see if there is a README or INSTALL file, and read them -- they'll usually give pretty clear indications on how to install the program. There may be a configure, make, make install sequence you need to follow if it is pure source code. Otherwise, read through the install.sh file and attempt to gauge what it's going to do (you don't want anything unexpected happening, believe me), then
[ian@localhost ian]$ cd /home
[ian@localhost home]$
[ian@localhost home]$ chmod u+x install.sh
chmod: failed to get attributes of `install.sh': No such file or directory
[ian@localhost home]$ ./install.sh
bash: ./install.sh: No such file or directory
[ian@localhost ian]$ ls -lh
total 4.5M
drwxrwxr-x 4 ian ian 4.0K Apr 11 2002 bumprace-1.45/
-rw-rw-r-- 1 ian ian 1 May 16 19:53 confdefs.h
-rw-rw-r-- 1 ian ian 0 May 16 17:57 config.cache
-rw-rw-r-- 1 ian ian 240 May 16 19:53 config.log
drwxrwxr-x 6 ian ian 4.0K May 16 20:17 Desktop/
drwxr-xr-x 2 ian ian 4.0K May 12 17:08 Documents/
drwx------ 7 ian ian 4.0K May 16 18:06 evolution/
-rw-rw-r-- 1 ian games 901K May 16 18:54 screenshot1.bmp
-rw-rw-r-- 1 ian games 901K May 16 18:54 screenshot2.bmp
-rw-rw-r-- 1 ian games 901K May 16 19:43 screenshot3.bmp
-rw-rw-r-- 1 ian games 901K May 16 19:44 screenshot4.bmp
-rw-rw-r-- 1 ian games 901K May 16 19:44 screenshot5.bmp
drwx------ 6 ian ian 4.0K May 16 20:17 tmp/
[ian@localhost ian]$
[ian@localhost ian]$ cd bumprace-1.45
[ian@localhost bumprace-1.45]$ chmod u+x install.sh
chmod: failed to get attributes of `install.sh': No such file or directory
[ian@localhost bumprace-1.45]$ ./install.sh
bash: ./install.sh: No such file or directory
total 252K
-rw-r--r-- 1 ian ian 6.1K Nov 2 2001 acinclude.m4
-rw-r--r-- 1 ian ian 9.7K Apr 11 2002 aclocal.m4
-rw-r--r-- 1 ian ian 1.2K Sep 17 2001 AUTHORS
-rw-r--r-- 2 ian ian 7.5K Apr 11 2002 ChangeLog
-rw-r--r-- 1 ian ian 31K Jan 19 2000 config.guess
-rw-r--r-- 1 ian ian 24K Jan 19 2000 config.sub
-rwxr-xr-x 1 ian ian 65K Apr 11 2002 configure*
-rw-r--r-- 1 ian ian 1.8K Apr 11 2002 configure.in
-rw-r--r-- 1 ian ian 18K May 1 1999 COPYING
drwxrwxr-x 4 ian ian 4.0K Apr 11 2002 data/
-rw-r--r-- 1 ian ian 788 Apr 11 2001 FAQ
-rw-r--r-- 1 ian ian 7.7K Aug 20 1999 INSTALL
-rwxr-xr-x 1 ian ian 5.5K Oct 21 1999 install-sh*
-rw-r--r-- 1 ian ian 70 Feb 26 2000 Makefile.am
-rw-r--r-- 1 ian ian 9.7K Apr 11 2002 Makefile.in
-rwxr-xr-x 1 ian ian 6.2K Nov 18 1999 missing*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 ian ian 726 Nov 18 1999 mkinstalldirs*
-rw-r--r-- 2 ian ian 7.5K Apr 11 2002 NEWS
-rw-r--r-- 1 ian ian 1.6K Apr 11 2001 README
drwxrwxr-x 2 ian ian 4.0K Apr 11 2002 src/
Ok, so it looks like it's an ordinary source package. Read the README, FAQ and INSTALL files, then post back if you have any questions. You'll probably have to run something like configure, make, make install.
[ian@localhost bumprace-1.45]$ ls -lh
total 260K
-rw-r--r-- 1 ian ian 6.1K Nov 2 2001 acinclude.m4
-rw-r--r-- 1 ian ian 9.7K Apr 11 2002 aclocal.m4
-rw-r--r-- 1 ian ian 1.2K Sep 17 2001 AUTHORS
-rw-r--r-- 2 ian ian 7.5K Apr 11 2002 ChangeLog
-rw-r--r-- 1 ian ian 51 May 16 20:57 confdefs.h
-rw-r--r-- 1 ian ian 0 May 16 20:57 config.cache
-rw-r--r-- 1 ian ian 31K Jan 19 2000 config.guess
-rw-r--r-- 1 ian ian 661 May 16 20:57 config.log
-rw-r--r-- 1 ian ian 24K Jan 19 2000 config.sub
-rwxr-xr-x 1 ian ian 65K Apr 11 2002 configure*
-rw-r--r-- 1 ian ian 1.8K Apr 11 2002 configure.in
-rw-r--r-- 1 ian ian 18K May 1 1999 COPYING
drwxrwxr-x 4 ian ian 4.0K Apr 11 2002 data/
-rw-r--r-- 1 ian ian 788 Apr 11 2001 FAQ
-rw-r--r-- 1 ian ian 7.7K Aug 20 1999 INSTALL
-rwxr-xr-x 1 ian ian 5.5K Oct 21 1999 install-sh*
-rw-r--r-- 1 ian ian 70 Feb 26 2000 Makefile.am
-rw-r--r-- 1 ian ian 9.7K Apr 11 2002 Makefile.in
-rwxr-xr-x 1 ian ian 6.2K Nov 18 1999 missing*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 ian ian 726 Nov 18 1999 mkinstalldirs*
-rw-r--r-- 2 ian ian 7.5K Apr 11 2002 NEWS
-rw-r--r-- 1 ian ian 1.6K Apr 11 2001 README
drwxrwxr-x 2 ian ian 4.0K Apr 11 2002 src/
[ian@localhost bumprace-1.45]$ make
make: *** No targets specified and no makefile found. Stop.
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