help installing some programs

[1994SL2]

Hello all,
I just started using Linux and have a dumb question. I downloaded a game, enemy territory and I have been trying to install it. Clicking on it really doesn't do anything, I tried opening up the terminal and did install (filename) (destination). That proceeded to begin working, asked for the root password and then did something and exited out of the terminal.
Thanks in advance.
Edit: I am using Fedora 6 w/ Gnome.

[Zelmo]

Assuming you downloaded a compressed tarball (they usually have a .tar.gz or .tar.bz extension), you'll need to extract the tarball, which will create a directory with the same name as the tarball (sans the .tar.?z extension). In a terminal, do one of the following:

tar -xvzf filename.tar.gz
tar -xvzf filename.tgz
tar -xvjf filename.tar.bz
tar -xvjf filename.tbz

The only difference is whether you include z or j in tar's options: z is for gzip files (.tar.gz or .tgz), j is for bzip files (.tar.bz or .tbz).

Once it's extracted, go into the new directory that it creates and look for a file called INSTALL. That will have directions for the rest of the process. If there's no INSTALL, you might find instructions in the README.

One other thing--check your package manager and the Internet for a package before you go installing from a tarball. Packages are much easier to install.

[1994SL2]

the file ends end is a .x86.run

[techieMoe]

Look at the .BIN/.SH section. Should be the same for .RUN.

http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/lin...are-linux.html

[1994SL2]

Thanks,
Now when I run the program I get this :
Uncompressing Enemy Territory 2.55.............................................. .................................................. .........................
/root/.setup6973: error while loading shared libraries: libgtk-1.2.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
./setup.sh: line 143: 6998 Aborted "$setup" "$@" 2>>$NULL
The setup program seems to have failed on x86/glibc-2.1

See http://zerowing.idsoftware.com/linux/ for troubleshooting

I tried going to the site it showed, but its down. I went onto Yum and downloaded and installed what I thought was libgtk stuff, but I guess not. Any suggestions?

[techieMoe]

A couple of questions: are you installing this inside a graphical desktop environment or the command line? Enemy Territory pops up a window so you'll need to be in X Windows (Gnome or KDE for instance) for it to work.

Second: are you logged in as root user? That's a very bad idea. You'll need root privileges to install the software but there are ways to do that without actually logging into your system as root. For instance, log in as a regular user, open up a console and type su -, then enter your root password and run the installer. When you close the window the root privileges go away and you're less likely to accidentally bork your installation when going about your regular daily activities.

[1994SL2]

I am using Gnome, and I get the error wether I log in as root or just a regular user and then use the su command. I think I am having problems with video card drivers to. I have a ati radeon m300. Someone told me I was using MESA or something instead of the correct drivers. I have been trying to also play cube , but when I run the program I only get 1 fps. Do you know of the best way to get the correct drivers? I tried downloading them from ati's site but its saying I need libexpat which I can't find for fedora anywhere.