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I'm a complete noob at installing things on Linux; my experience with the terminal extends to typing character for character what others told me to type and navigating with cd and dir. So if I am told to use such and such command, I won't know what to do; I won't know the syntax and even if I look it up I'll probably miss something that seems so obvious once you're used to it that no-one thought to mention it. I remember not to long ago when I was asking on irc why my password didn't show up when I typed it in the terminal. I thought I had done something wrong.
As a last resort, I could just download the files for windows and run it on there, but I kind-of wanted to be able to play it on Linux.
Oh, I forgot something, I also know the exit command. :)
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Are you sure you need to "install" the game? A lot of Linux game have just been playable after unpacking. If you do an 'ls -l' in the unpacked directory and paste in the results, I could probably tell from the naming which file is the executable that you would run.
Alternatively, I'm sure the Linux section in Uber forums should tell how to run it, but don't have time right now to go look up my login there. Surely you have a login there too, since you've got alpha access.
-rw-r--r-- 1 joshua joshua 0 Sep 23 23:42 ???@@Ȼ??@8
-rwxr-xr-x 1 joshua joshua 217835 Sep 5 11:24 crashupload
drwxr-xr-x 3 joshua joshua 4096 Sep 5 11:24 host
-r-xr-xr-x 1 joshua joshua 1410280 Sep 5 11:23 libCoherentUI.so
-r-xr-xr-x 1 joshua joshua 561576 Sep 5 11:23 libfmodevent64-4.44.16.so
-r-xr-xr-x 1 joshua joshua 1292912 Sep 5 11:23 libfmodex64-4.44.16.so
-r--r--r-- 1 joshua joshua 7654 Sep 5 11:23 licenses.txt
drwxr-xr-x 7 joshua joshua 4096 Sep 5 11:24 media
-rwxr-xr-x 1 joshua joshua 95437767 Sep 5 11:27 PA
drwxr-xr-x 2 joshua joshua 4096 Sep 5 11:27 tools
-rw-r--r-- 1 joshua joshua 6 Sep 5 11:27 version.txt
Are you sure this is the right info?
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./PA
I hope to be downloading the beta tonight (waiting for email on downloading to arrive), so should be trying it myself soon
bash: ./PA: cannot execute binary file
joshua@joshua-Inspiron-5520 ~/Downloads/PA $ /PA
bash: /PA: No such file or directory
joshua@joshua-Inspiron-5520 ~/Downloads/PA $ dir
\001\210\360@@Ȼ\236\005@8 libCoherentUI.so licenses.txt tools
crashupload libfmodevent64-4.44.16.so media version.txt
host libfmodex64-4.44.16.so PA
joshua@joshua-Inspiron-5520 ~/Downloads/PA $ PA
PA: command not found
joshua@joshua-Inspiron-5520 ~/Downloads/PA $ .PA
.PA: command not found
joshua@joshua-Inspiron-5520 ~/Downloads/PA $ make.PA
make.PA: command not found
joshua@joshua-Inspiron-5520 ~/Downloads/PA $ make./PA
bash: make./PA: No such file or directory
joshua@joshua-Inspiron-5520 ~/Downloads/PA $
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