Really Nooby Question-Installation

[coolguysam]

Well, I am a total noob to linux, im running ubuntu. I have installed several things, but others i have problems with because they tell me to do things such as for second life (game) installation

"Run ./secondlife from the installation directory to start Second Life."

Just asking for a simple explaination for this obviously very nooby question. So how would i run ./secondlife?

Thanks

[ehawk]

If you have more problems, post the output.

[retsaw]

What that means is you have to run that command from a terminal that is in the Second Life directory. You may just be able to click on the secondlife file from the GUI and it should work unless it needs to output to the terminal for some reason.

[mrrangerman43]

Its almost like the old Dos games, just open a terminal cd or change directory into the directory containing the game, and then give the command, ./secondlife.
./secondlife is the exicutable for that game, the same as a .exe is for windows.

[coolguysam]

Alright, well i had tried that before, i just wasnt changing into its directory :o

Well thanks for the help guys i really do appriciate it. :)

[happybunny]

just so you know, unlike Windows, your current location (for instance /usr/tmp/monkey or anywhere) isn't automatically in your search PATH, so the "executable" (in this case secondlife) isn't readily availible to your shell since its location isn't in your PATH.

so ./ means "from my current location run xxxxx".

You might have also been able to type in the full path to the file, for instance /tmp/games/secondlife (or wherever you put it). Some install programs require you to be in the actual directory though.