psclient not found??? weirdness

[Brundgr]

I downloaded the linux tarball and untared it as is apropriate (and yes i\'m using linux).  

Then i tried to run the pssetup, psclient-bin, etc. but all i get is a complaint from KDE that it can\'t find those files.  So i downloaded the tar file from another server...same problem...so i checked the file length and its correct and all.  The pssetup, psclient-bin, etc. are not empty files...which leads me to believe that the problem is kde not recognizing them as programs or something like that.

So now i\'m wondering is there a step i\'m missing? or something i did wrong?  

[zaphar]

make sure they are in your path for executables in Linux

or make sure your in the same directory and type ./psclient to run them

or type the full path to the file to run it.

it sounds like it just doesn\'t know where the files are

Are you new to Linux?

[Brundgr]

yup I\'m fairly new.  

I untared the thing and it put itself in one directory called planeshift and then i tried to run the programs from there.

where else should the programs be...i assume a bin folder of some kind...but i just figured that planeshift was different.

How can if fix this?d

[zaphar]

ok I am assuming you have the binary distrobution for linux

go to the terminal

navigate to the directory where your psclient file is

when your are there type ./psclient

that will run the client do the same for all the other files

The problem your having is that Linux wont run a file unless its in your executable path.

so even if your in the directory where the file is it wont run it unless you force it to with the ./ syntax

hope this helps :-)