I can't get it to install...

[Gergon]

I have Ubuntu 7.10.
Nothing happens when I click the .BIN file (Because it can't find a program that opens .BIN files), and I used the chmod +x command and nothing happened eather...
Whats going on? How do I install PlaneShift?

[vim]

The .BIN file is an installer. You're not supposed to open it with another program, but run it. When you used the chmod command you didn't open it; you made it executable. Now, all you have to do is run it from the terminal. Now, if you try to do something like:

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you@ubuntu:~$ PlaneShift_CBV0.3.020-x64.bin
it will say it can't find the program. That's because your environment is not configured to look for programs in the folder you have the installer. Yes, it's right there, but that's a security measure. Imagine what would happen if we were able to execute every file we have on our home folders, imagine one of those files has a trojan or something evil. That's why the system makes sure we will know what we're doing. Okay, so what to do? We tell bash where the executable we want to run is:

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you@ubuntu:~$ ./PlaneShift_CBV0.3.020-x64.bin
Notice the ' ./ '. That's means 'current folder', so what we're telling bash is: "execute file /whateverthecurrentfolderis/PlaneShift_CBV0.3.020-x64.bin"

Alternatively, you could just tell it the full path, like this (remember you don't type the $, that's just to show the command promt:

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$ /home/you/downloads/PlaneShift_CBV0.3.020-x64.bin
or

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$ /media/windows/downloads/PlaneShift_CBV0.3.020-x64.bin
etc, etc.

Try one of those and see if it works.

[Gergon]

I have already tried that, but I thought I was skipping a step, but anyways, the terminal says this:

Segmentation fault (core dumped)

Is this something wrong with my computer?
***I got the x86 one, I realy don't know what my computer is, x86, or x64***

[vim]

Okay, in the terminal type:

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$ uname -m
It will tell you what type of machine you have.

[Gergon]

i686, so thats x86 I so pose?

[TymTheEnchanter]

yes you have an x86 system, just make sue you have the PlaneShift_CBV0.3.020-x86.bin installer and not the x64 one. If you do then try comparing the md5sum of your copy and the one on the server

$ cd /directory/where/your/installer/is/saved/

$ md5sum PlaneShift_CBV0.3.020-x86.bin

and compare the output with the one ont he download page which is

md5 checksum:
PlaneShift_CBV0.3.019-x86.bin: 818bc531fde25429b1561e2ed535c37f

from http://www.planeshift.it/download.html

if they are not the same then you will need to download the client again. This is one advantage of the torrent download over the direct one as each piece of the torrent gets checked for integrity before you finally get it so you have a much higher chance of downloading the correct file from a torrent than a direct download.