How to install a .run file

[jamesrfla]

Try typing sudo before the command you run. Then enter your password and that should work. Only use sudo when you have to.

[Uberche]

I am trying to install A Tale In the Desert which is a .run file. I navigate to Downloads which is where it is and I type

chmod -x eClient-linux-i686.run

and hit enter and it does nothing, just back to the prompt

ethan@ubuntu:~Downloads$ chmod -x eClient-linux-i686.run
ethan@ubuntu:~Downloads$

is what I end up with... any thoughts of what stupidity I'm doing here?

Thanks as I'm new to Linux, liking it... just a bit of a learning curve.

[Uberche]

1) Right Click - Properties - Permissions - Allow executing as a program

2) Double Click

3) Feel like idiot.

[Thonyv]

you run this -

ctrl-alt-F1

that will get rid of your desktop, so save anything first. then run this -

init 3

then -

gdm stop

then login, that bit might be earlier, it's says login, or something like that. then, if the nvidia driver is on your desktop cd to your desktop and run it like this -

cd ~/Desktop <enter>
sudo sh NVIDIA-Linux-xxxx.run

replace the xxxx with what the driver is called. at some point you might get an error about /tmp/.X0-lock, or something like that, you can remove it like this -

sudo rm /tmp/.X0-lock

you can reboot like this -

sudo reboot

OR incase that doesn't work for some reason

sudo shutdown -r now

i've never installed a graphics driver like that in ubuntu, that's just from old notes i made for installing the nvidia driver on linux. i don't think anyone installs the driver like that on ubuntu.

I am attempting to use this method to install the new nvidia graphics driver and all goes well until I try to stop the GDM. I get an error message saying to cannot acquire name. I ran the gdm stop command with sudo but it still didn't work. I tried to install the driver anyway and it said the X server was stil running, so I assume that I have to stop it somehow. The instructions in nvidia's readme file aren't clear on how to stop the X server either.

Any help is greatly appreciated

**I dug a little deeper and found that I had to use

$ sudo /etc/init.d/gdm stop

Driver is now installed and working great. Thanks all for the information

[dakkar9999]

Thanks! Worked perfectly!

[groundwire123]

For those of you that have been using Ubuntu for a while, you probably already know this. I'm posting this for the newbies that download a game installer in .run format and have no idea what to do with it.

How to Install a .run File:

For this How To I am going to be using the dummy name "example.run". You should replace this with the name of the file you are trying to install.

1. Open a terminal. In Gnome the terminal is found in Applications>Accessories>Terminal.
2. Navigate to the directory of the .run file. For this example, I have mine on the desktop so I would type in "cd ~/Desktop" and press enter.
3. Type "chmod +x example.run" (press enter).
4. Now type "./example.run", press enter, and the installer will run.

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Thank you much. I have been pulling hair out of my head!!! by the way, my new 11.1 ati drivers and hd radion 5870 thank you to.

[FreymanX]

Hello how do you run it as a Admin this is what i get

VirtualBox Version 4.0.8 r71778 (2011-05-16T16:58:14Z) installer
This program must be run with administrator privileges. Aborting

[Slasher The Great!]

thanks

[geazzy]

nice tutorial

[mujahied]

thanks very usefull