Game does not install

[Guest D-Day Dave]

I downloaded the file, unziped it, changed the directory to /home/blah/blah/el.x86.linux.bin, made the binary file executable and tried running it in a terminal and it does not work. it says there is no such file or directory what am i doing wrong? is there something i'm missing?

 

I saved backups of the initially downloaded file in case i need to just start from scratch.

 

someone...please hlep

[chr0nik]

Did you try

./el.x86.linux.bin

or just

el.x86.linux.bin

 

The current directory, . , is not always in the path so you have to prepend the name of an executable with ./

[Guest D-Day Dave]

yeah i used the ./ before the file name and it still told me it doesn't exist. that's what has me really confused.

[chr0nik]

I don't understand how the chmod command would've worked then. Are you certain you are in the right directory? You can do a ls *.bin to see if the binaries are there.

[Guest D-Day Dave]

i didn't use the chmod command to make it executable. i went through the properties tab on the icon to get to permissions. i used ls * .bin and it shows the binary file in grey/white in the downloads file and even lists the EternalLands folder in the games file.

[Guest D-Day Dave]

I have fixed the problem! ^_^

 

The solution was too right click on the Eternal lands file, go to "actions" and click "open terminal here". inside that terminal the ./el.x86.linux.bin command worked and I am currently going through the setup process.

 

Thank you chr0nik for trying to help.