installing americas army/alien arena

[Specialsauce]

both of these games come in .run format, wich i know is a macintosh version of an exe (well, not really, but kinda, a little bit, in a way..... whatever, just ignore that), so i was just wondering how to install that, and if i have to mess around in the command line, id like to know if there is a plugin or package that will make it autorun when i double click it... thanks in advance

[Harleen]

These files are basically zip-files with an install script prepended. If you don't want to mess with the command line, all you have to do is to make the .run-files executable and simply run them.

[tmahmood]

Well... how am I going to run them from CLI?

if i try to use sh it gives me err... :(
when i try to open in nautiluas ... mozilla opens and want to download the file again!!
now what to do :confused:

[Specialsauce]

i dont know your problem, but to harleen, thank you

[Harleen]

Well... how am I going to run them from CLI?
if i try to use sh it gives me err... :(


If CLI means Command Line Interface:

Go to that directory and run this command: "sh alienarena-2006-x86.run"
(or whatever your package is named)
If you used that command and got an error, post it and you might get help.


when i try to open in nautiluas ... mozilla opens and want to download the file again!!
now what to do :confused:

That's probably because the file is not executable. As KDE-user I don't know nautilus. I would try to right click on that file to change the permission (give executable rights) and run that file afterwards just like any other file.

[newuser111]

you just type chmod a+x filename in terminal

then ./filename