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ltid8

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error on installation help
« on: September 24, 2011, 08:47:30 pm »
Could not display "/home/loz/Downloads/PlaneShift-v0.5.7-x86.run".
There is no application installed for executable files


this is the error i get for this game and regnum online, i dont understand it, i meet all requirements and am uptodate,

i even play 4story and diablo 2 thru wine lol so surely i can run a linux compat game

LigH

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Re: error on installation help
« Reply #1 on: September 24, 2011, 11:50:56 pm »
How are you trying to run the installer? Are you sure it got the executable attribute set after you downloaded it? Do you try to run it from a console or from a file manager?

Linux is not Windows. An application does not run because it has a specific extension, but because it has a file attribute set. Read the manual about: chmod a+x
« Last Edit: September 24, 2011, 11:54:32 pm by LigH »

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