Freespace 2 Problems

[RickyOswaldIOW]

Greets. Just got the FSOInstaller (java based) and it worked like a charm downloading all 2.5GB of game files so I didn't need to dig out my old disks :) I installed to /home/codemonkey/games/freespace but I can't run the fs2_open.bin file, it says simply:

bash: ./fs2_open.bin: cannot execute binary file


P.S. I am a total linux newbie, been here for just 3 days now.

[RickyOswaldIOW]

Oh an one more thing, I tried simply dbl clicking the bin file and it creates two 0 byte files in the folder with totally bizarre filenames using characters that are not on the keyboard. Using "sudo ./fs2_open.bin" messes up the terminal window in a similar fashion...

[RickyOswaldIOW]

seems I needed to chmod the file, I used chmod +x fs2_open.bin