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General => Troubleshooting => Topic started by: nashod on June 18, 2010, 01:33:02 pm

Title: can' install the game (ubuntu 10.04)
Post by: nashod on June 18, 2010, 01:33:02 pm

so i  really want to play the game but i have a problem first off i installed the game through the software center and apparently it doesn't have all the files needed so i downloaded the installer from the web site and everything is fine until i need to choose the path so i choose it and it gives me no permission to write into XXXXX(the path) so how do i give the installer a fucking permission

a screenshot of the problem:
http://img824.imageshack.us/img824/6853/prob1x.png
http://img695.imageshack.us/img695/9527/prob2l.png

Title: Re: can' install the game (ubuntu 10.04)
Post by: jez on June 18, 2010, 01:59:46 pm

sudo chmod -fucking [file]

Grants fucking permissions.

Title: Re: can' install the game (ubuntu 10.04)
Post by: nashod on June 18, 2010, 02:19:03 pm

ok that was a good one but i tried that and it doesn't help(tried chmod i mean not fucking)

Title: Re: can' install the game (ubuntu 10.04)
Post by: F50 on June 18, 2010, 03:20:28 pm

chmod -r u+w ~/Games/Tremulous (assuming you own the file)
chmod -r g+w ~/Games/Tremulous (if for some odd reason you don't own the file in your home directory)

If that doesn't work try running the installer as root (with sudo). You should be able to do so as a user since the install path is in ~, but if it is trying to place an executable in /usr/bin for instance, you'll need the additional privileges.

Title: Re: can' install the game (ubuntu 10.04)
Post by: nashod on June 18, 2010, 03:34:55 pm

thanks for trying to help but when i type the command it says can't find a directory 'u+w'

Title: Re: can' install the game (ubuntu 10.04)
Post by: David on June 18, 2010, 04:35:48 pm

It needs to be -R not -r.

You entered a path of ./Games/Whatever, I'm guessing you didn't run the installer from your home dir so that folder doesn't exist.  Enter an absolute path and see what happens.

Title: Re: can' install the game (ubuntu 10.04)
Post by: nashod on June 18, 2010, 05:54:54 pm

actually that path does exist and i tried other paths nothing works all the paths give me no permission shit and i did run the file from my home directory

Title: Re: can' install the game (ubuntu 10.04)
Post by: David on June 18, 2010, 08:48:55 pm

run ls -la ~/Games/Tremulous and post up the output.

Title: Re: can' install the game (ubuntu 10.04)
Post by: nashod on June 18, 2010, 09:33:52 pm

total 8
drwxrwxrwx 2 nashed nashed 4096 2010-06-18 15:21 .
drwxr-xrwx 3 nashed nashed 4096 2010-06-18 14:50

Title: Re: can' install the game (ubuntu 10.04)
Post by: SlackerLinux on June 18, 2010, 11:58:14 pm

you missed listing the files

ok..... now to try to solve this

to install system-wide you will need to be root to do this go

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su -type in your password and run the installer as normal keeping all the defaults

Title: Re: can' install the game (ubuntu 10.04)
Post by: nashod on June 19, 2010, 07:39:54 am

even when running it as root it doesn't work i think i had a bad download or something i will redownload it and see what happens

Title: Re: can' install the game (ubuntu 10.04)
Post by: nashod on June 19, 2010, 08:00:58 am

ok so i redownloaded the game and still the same shit any1 knows where i can get it using a package manager but being full

Title: Re: can' install the game (ubuntu 10.04)
Post by: cirdan on June 19, 2010, 11:03:10 am

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actually that path does exist and i tried other paths nothing works all the paths give me no permission shit and i did run the file from my home directory
No, it doesn't.

Try: /home/your_user_name/Games/Tremulous

(replace /home/your_user_name by your home directory).

Do you want tremulous 1.1 or 1.2?

If you want 1.2, you need to first install 1.1 then 1.2.

Title: Re: can' install the game (ubuntu 10.04)
Post by: nashod on June 19, 2010, 12:39:05 pm

i love u! the path u gave worked! thank u man!