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Sorry to be a pain

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I've spent the last hour and a bit of my life trying to install oolite on my PC :lol:

I've looked at the wiki, googled and sourced as much info as possible but as yet my attempts to install have drawn a blank :cry:

My Linux experience numbers less then 1 week and I'm running the latest version of Mepis

I've attempted the install via the method on the wiki, however no installation script runs it just keeps me within the structure of the downloaded file!

If someone can make a suggestion to my elementry mistake I'd be all ears :)
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Re: Sorry to be a pain

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Moo! wrote:
no installation script runs it just keeps me within the structure of the downloaded file!
I'm not quite sure what you mean by that?
Did you try to run the Autopackage? Or did you attempt to build from source? (not something for people with only one week of experience, maybe ;) )
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    *  1. Navigate to where you downloaded the game with your file manager (by default, Firefox will download things to the desktop).
    * 2. Right click on the file's icon, and select Properties.
    * 3. Select the 'Permissions' tab.
    * 4. Click on the check box 'Owner: Executable' to make it checked, and click Close.
    * 5. Double click the file's icon to run the installer. Follow any instructions. 
That's what I've done so far, I tried to compile the tar like I've done already with a few apps but this just dont want to play ball!

I know this is a me problem :wink: thanks for the help :P
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What exact file did you download?
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winston wrote:
What exact file did you download?
Oolite-Linux-1.64-dev1-x86.tar.gz
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The instructions you are following are for the file ending in '.package'. They won't work with the tarball.

Either download the file ending in '.package' and follow those instructions, or:

Open a terminal
tar zxvf Oolite-Linux-1.64-dev1.x86.tar.gz
cd oolite-installer
./install homedir

Perhaps I ought to discontinue making the tarball for Linux to avoid this kind of confusion!
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cheers for the help :) I'm all installed now :wink:
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