[SOLVED] I suck! Can I get some help running this app?

[Now_Then]

Hi - I'm really still very much a noob with linux, so be nice to me please, I learning very very slowly.

I have need to run a little app called qct2png, it does a very specific job and that and that is to convert qct files (which are proprietary map files) into the png image format.

It can be found at www sat dundee ac uk ( I can't post URL's yet, it's the top result in a google search for 'qct2png')

The file is named qct2png-linux.zip so I'm assuming it must be run in Linux somehow, which is fine my machine is dual booted with win7 and the latest Fedora - there is also the source code in C++.... But something confuses me, googling this problem I have come up with references to this program (nothing useful to me tho, it's all about a problem with the image size it can handle) But they say it's programmed in Python.

Either way I'm just scratching my head on how to run this thing, can someone help please?

[coopstah13]

so i see what it is

you need to unzip the zip file that you have, you can either use command line or gui tool

just run unzip qct2png-linux.zip in terminal (from download directory) or you can open it in file manager and unzip it that way

it has a single executable file in it

you will need to set execute bit with chmod +x qct2png

then you run it with ./qct2png

[Now_Then]

That's fantastic - thanks bud worked a treat... Trying to get it to work in VMware now cos all the other apps I'm using are windows - I guess 2 gig ram is just bearly enough to get it going... maybe it's the xubuntu distro I'm using - good reason to play.

But you are a star, quick and correct thanks a lot.