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03-04-2009	#1 (permalink)
Wilson14 Just Joined! Join Date: Mar 2009 Posts: 11	Trying to play a game I downloaded America's Army and it was a .run file. I got the file to install on my computer. I don't know what to do next. Any advice? How do I get the game up and running? Wilson14

03-04-2009

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Execute that file

Quote:

# ./file.run

if it dont have execute permission set it.

Quote:

# chmod a+x file.run

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03-04-2009	#3 (permalink)
Wilson14 Just Joined! Join Date: Mar 2009 Posts: 11	Didn't work I typed that code in and it didn't seem to do anything.

03-05-2009	#4 (permalink)
b2bwild Linux Engineer Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: Behind You! Posts: 1,064	are you using the deploy client? __________________ Microsoft isn't bad its just stupid. Read my Blog at --> Penguin Inside Subscribe Feed

03-06-2009	#5 (permalink)
Wilson14 Just Joined! Join Date: Mar 2009 Posts: 11	What is a deploy client? I downloaded one and installed it. What do I do now?

03-07-2009	#6 (permalink)
Wilson14 Just Joined! Join Date: Mar 2009 Posts: 11	I got the game to work! But i can't get it to connect to the internet. I'm not even sure what a server is. Could somebody help, please?

03-07-2009	#7 (permalink)
b2bwild Linux Engineer Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: Behind You! Posts: 1,064	Deploy client will automatically download and install America's Army, and also check all dependacies. giving you a proper installtion. __________________ Microsoft isn't bad its just stupid. Read my Blog at --> Penguin Inside Subscribe Feed

03-31-2009	#8 (permalink)
Wilson14 Just Joined! Join Date: Mar 2009 Posts: 11	What are dependencies? I downloaded the deploy client but nothing happened.

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