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Billforce
05-25-2003, 11:46 PM
I have Mandrake 9 on one partition of my HD. It works great but my question?
I downloaded Wolfstein for Linux, 112 MB into my home directory...I see the icon, properties sho 112 MB's but NOW what do I do with it. When I loaded Staroffice 5.2 it left a start icon in my home directory but the game just the 112 mb icon....My question is how do I install and run the game. WWWAAAAAAAAA
BipolarBill
05-26-2003, 10:52 AM
Heh. http://membres.lycos.fr/limagerie/evil2.gif (Bill Gates)

I believe that you have to compile the application. I don't have a clue how.
Logan2002
05-26-2003, 10:58 AM
Is the game a free download??
Sterling_Aug
05-26-2003, 11:44 AM
You probably have to un-tar it into a folder, then manually start the executable with ./program name.

Don't ask me for more than that. I am only just learning Red Hat 9 server now.
Logan2002
05-28-2003, 11:12 AM
So does linux have thier own free games as well as the os and other software??
:t
AllGamer
05-28-2003, 02:23 PM
Originally posted by Logan2002
So does linux have thier own free games as well as the os and other software??
:t

yes Lots of FREE games even with the normal packaged installs from Red Hat and Mandrake and SuSe, etc

and yes you can download a lot more that are also free, like Wolfeinstein 3D

BTW Wolfeinstein 3D is now also free for the PC

id released their source codes for free download since like 2 years ago

:t
Logan2002
05-29-2003, 03:09 AM
WOW so what do you think of the game?
koer99
05-29-2003, 04:07 AM
Billforce what is the exact file name? eg. wolf3d.sh or smth. ?
If it is an sh then just open the console and run ./wolf3d.sh or sh wolf3d.sh. Offcorse you have to locate the folder in the console before you can run the file.

Please correct my commands if they are wrong, havent used linux for the past 6 months... )-|
Jay7779
05-29-2003, 12:24 PM
If it's the program souce open the terminal and change to the correct directory. type "./configure" if all goes well you shouldnt get any errors. If no errors occur then type "make && make install" then open konqueror(assuming you're using kde) and goto /usr/bin and see if you can see anything that it might be(such as wolf3d) then go back to terminal and type "wolf3d"(or whatever its called).