Ubuntu linux

[[CTD]LaBan]

Hi, I have a Linux based OS (Ubuntu) and Windows xp in same computer.

In linux i can't open (I'm newbie on linux) *.run files and i can't compile zipped folders... so can anyone give me tips?

[K^2]

What are .run files supposed to be?

 

People don't generally do .zip on *nix platforms. Look online for instructions on making .tar.gz (gzip) archives.

[[CTD]LaBan]

ok, i will...

but Wolfenstein:ET for linux weights 255 mb and it is a *.run file...

[gillies]

I haven't used linux for years so this could be about something completely different, but it seems familiar so try typing sh filename.run in the console and see if it does anything.

[Saggy]

The extension's name doesn't mean anything in Linux. Check this out:

 

http://www.mousebaked.org/rotator/signaturee.png

 

Reason why that's an animated PNG is because Linux doesn't determine how to treat a file by the ".*" part of it. Therefore, I can save it as a .gif, and then just change the filename.

 

 

 

To run your run file, you first and foremost will need a program that's designed to execute them. Simply trying to execute it in bash will most likely yield no results unless it's a application or a script file.

 

If you're supposed to execute the file from the shell, you need to give it permissions to do so first. Try...

 

chmod u+x ./file.run

 

While in the directory that holds the file. If it is meant to execute, then simply typing, "./file.run" afterward will execute.

 

 

 

Since it seems like you're trying to use Windows utilities, give Wine a try. You should be able to use whatever program you used to run the files in Windows in Wine, and if I'm not mistaken you should also be able to compile .zip files inside of it. You probably have it installed already, but it's good to have a new version. Do the following in a terminal

 

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install wine

 

Before you try running it, execute "wineconfig" in the terminal or else your initial setup may not work, but generally on Ubuntu it sets it up correctly the first time, so skip this step unless you get some sort of mysterious error.

 

After you've got that all sorted out, you can type "wine executable.exe" where "executable" is the name of whatever Windows program you need to run. At that point, you should be able to access your files with the programs Open File dialog, and do whatever you need to do on Windows files and utilities.

 

Keep in mind that when you've installed a program, it generally puts the .exe in ~/.wine/drive_c/Program\ Files/ I usually have some problems executing files from this directory while I'm in my home directory, so I change directories to it before I execute anything and simply run it as "wine program.exe".

 

Example :

 

 

(It runs like crap on Wine, but it works, in case anyone is wondering)

 

gillies, if I remember correctly that command is most useful for keeping Shell(sh) scripts from launching in the Bourne Again Shell(bash). Not sure about that, though. In any case, unless the file is a shell script, sh will not do anything with it.