Digger Report post Posted November 1, 2009 IThe instructions for installing EL on Ubuntu say chmod the desired binary to 775, and execute it. What does this mean? also, it says to Edit el.ini and change datadir to where you unzip everything can someone tell me what this is saying to do? many thanks, Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Raytray Report post Posted November 1, 2009 The first one is to set it to be an executable. In most set ups you can right click and find the box to make something executable. Or you can open the terminal, cd to the folder storing the binary (.x86 in most cases) and do chmod +775 thefile.x86 For the second one, open the el.ini file and change the datadir (data directory) to the correct file path to where the eternal lands data files are. Which is where they are unzipped. iirc, you can leave this to be default? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Digger Report post Posted November 1, 2009 (edited) The first one is to set it to be an executable.In most set ups you can right click and find the box to make something executable. Or you can open the terminal, cd to the folder storing the binary (.x86 in most cases) and do chmod +775 thefile.x86 For the second one, open the el.ini file and change the datadir (data directory) to the correct file path to where the eternal lands data files are. Which is where they are unzipped. iirc, you can leave this to be default? Thanks Raytray. i am running the latest Ubuntu (installed yesterday) when I right click on the file it gives me the open option but of course the system can't open it, saying the file is of an unknown type. There is no box i see to make it excecutable. Do you mean to rename the file or extension? I can see the datadir and have changed it to the correct location. thanks for that. (Please keep your font type and size the default settings, per rule #7 here: http://www.eternal-lands.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=13949 Edited November 1, 2009 by Aislinn Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Raytray Report post Posted November 1, 2009 Sorry, right click and properties iirc. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Digger Report post Posted November 1, 2009 Sorry, right click and properties iirc. Sorry to be such a slow learner but properties of el.x86.linux.bin has no options for iirc. it does have a rename option and a tab for permissions, showing that "execute: allow executing file as program" is checked. I see nothing about chat. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ravynchylde49 Report post Posted November 1, 2009 (edited) Okay, first, if I'm right, when Raytray said "iirc" that's an acronym for "If I Recall Correctly". Anyway... "The instructions for installing EL on Ubuntu say chmod the desired binary to 775, and execute it. What does this mean?" >> okay, you need to be in the directory where your binary is. So, for example, if like mine, it's in /home/username/Desktop/downloads/games/EternalLands, that's where you need to be. 1) then log in as root (type "su" then your root password) and type (without quotes) " chmod 775 yourELgamebinarydownload.bin " and hit enter also, it says to Edit el.ini and change datadir to where you unzip everything >> What this is asking you to do is change the text file called el.ini. 1) log in as root 2) open your file with your text editor (note: if you're using Ubuntu, I really like "geany" as a text editor). 3) use the "search" function (or "find) to find the datadir. In my case, it was on line 241 and it should be in a similar place. 4) Again, we're using mine as an example. So, if my game is in /home/username/Desktop/downloads/games/EternalLands, then you should change the data_dir line to read data_dir = /home/username/Desktop/downloads/games/EternalLands. Delete the " # " before the data_dir command to activate it. 5) So, instead of the line looking like #data_dir = /default/dir/setup/by/the/game it should look like data_dir = /home/username/Desktop/downloads/games/EternalLands Edited November 1, 2009 by ravynchylde49 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
revi Report post Posted November 1, 2009 (edited) Just a small correction: IF El is installed in /home/username/...., there should be NO need to login as root (which is what su does), the owner of a file can change its permissions directly. (unless somehow you managed to have an owner different from 'username' on your EL files...) And when there is no need to become root, it's best to avoid it (root can do anything, includig making mistakes that wipe the hadr disk or damage the installation...) Again, don't use root when it isn't necessary... and it shouldn't be necessary here edit: @Digger: try and open a terminal window, change to your EL directory (where the binary el.x86.linux.bin is) and type at the prompt: "./el.x86.linux.bin" (without the quotes, and don't forget the ./ at the start, it's a common precaution to prevent surprises with system commands). This should start the program if it is marked as executable. Edited November 1, 2009 by revi Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ravynchylde49 Report post Posted November 1, 2009 True, true. In fact, the first time I tried installing EL was in root and it messed up. Thanks for the catch. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
korrode Report post Posted November 2, 2009 https://help.ubuntu.com/community/EternalLands Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
