How do you install games?

I just finished downloading and extracting Alien Arena 2009. How do you install it?

 

Extracting?!

What sort of package are we talking about...and what distro?

If you are running Ubuntu Alien Arena is in the repository anyways...if not there is *usually* a .sh or a .pl extention file in the package, might even be something like install.sh or similar...

In which case its just a manner of running that then...but it would help to know some more details about the file you downloaded and the distro you are running

 

There shoould be some kind of exe file.

 

sorry...but an .exe file?!! If there was an .exe file I would ask why someone was running the Windows release of a game that has a native Linux client on a Linux install!!

This is the Linux part of the forum....

 

Distro: Mint (32-bit)

I downloaded it from games.on.net and it was in a zip file so I unzipped it to /home/brian/games/ which created the folder "alienarena2009". So now I'm wondering how you would install it from there.

 

Im must apologize, i haven't use linux in a long time so i dont remember the exact name of the file type.

 

Open the folder and look. Tell us what's in it if you can't figure it out.

 

Usually there is a executable or a shell script (.sh) to start the game. Just make sure you've given it execute permissions [right click -> Properties -> Permissions (tab) -> Execute (check)] then double click it.

 

i assume this is a joke, so lol?

 

Don't worry about installing it. Just change to the unzipped directory that contains the program files, (alienarena2009), and run the executable. Maybe like this;

Code:

cd /home/brian/games/alienarena2009
./crx

If that doesn't work try the sdl executable;

Code:

./crx.sdl

If you get this error;

Code:

error while loading shared libraries: libopenal.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

Then you need to install a couple of libraries with;

Code:

sudo aptitude install openal libcurl3

and then try running the executable again.

LinuxQuestions thread about Alien Arena 2009 on Ubuntu
Ubuntu thread for Alien Arena
Ubuntu Instructions for compiling Alien Arena 32bit
Ubuntu Instructions for compiling Alien Arena 64bit

BTW, the easiest way to install programs in Linux is via the package manager for your distro. Since you mention you're running Mint, I assume synaptic is your package manager, and folks in the Ubuntu forums mention that Aliena Arena is available via synaptics, but it may be the older version. If it is available, and it is the version you want, you should delete what you downloaded and unzipped, and install it via synaptics. It will be much easier to install, run, and most of all, maintain.

Good Luck..

 

Just go to this web page. This will become your best friend.

http://gwos.org/doku.php/guides:start

Jas posted the direct link to guide of Alien Rena all-ready. You should book mark this web page.

 

You should also be able to install Alien Arena through the Add/Remove Programs dialogue... is this Ubuntu?

 

It doesn't look like synaptic has the latest version of alien arena. It says v7.0.1 (alien arena 2008). The latest version is 7.30 (alien arena 2009).

@jas: I followed your instructions up to the point where I type in ./crx, but I got an error message

"couldn't exec config.cfg"

I've installed the libraries as well.

 

Have you tried the repo's version? It's a possibility that the game will auto-patch itself to the latest version.

 

I think they submitted the repo into a bug, because it had an outdated version of alien arena. I think thats why I installed it manually, but I had 0 issues other then i was missing some libs. Funny thing I don't even play it no more. I play to many other games now. LoL..