Trouble installing tremulous

[MonkeyDude]

Hello,

I am new to linux and have just discovered Tremulous which looks like a great game. I have downloaded tremulous-1.1.0-installer.x86.run but when I run it, I get the following message:

Could not open the file: Path/tremulous-1.1.0-installer.x86.run

gedit has not been able to detect the character coding.
Please check that you are not trying to open a binary file.
Select a character coding from the menu and try again.

currently the character coding is set to current locale (UTF-8 )

Could someone give me a hand or redirect me to a install manual? I do not know what character coding is. It is the first time I try to install an application without synaptic.

Thanks in advance!

[kevlarman]

cd to the directory the installer is in, then type this in a terminal:

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sudo sh tremulous-1.1.0-installer.x86.run(the sudo is optional, but i like to install tremulous for the whole system rather than just 1 user)

[MonkeyDude]

cool!

Thanks, it is installed and present in the game menu.
Now I have problems launching it...
The screen goes black for a split second and then nothing happens. I think it must be my graphic card (ATI Radeon Xpress 1100). Do I have to look for some kind of accelerator on their site?

[tomek-k]

run tremulous also in the terminal and post it's output here. It will give some information on the error.

the easy way is to run:

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tremulous > outputfile

and it will save the output to a file named outputfile.
Post the contents of the outputfile.

[next_ghost]

Wild guess: MESA Indirect rendering. In that case, install ati-drivers.

[MonkeyDude]

Good guess man! :wink:

I got Tremulous to run and learned a lot about the console doing so. Thank you guys for your help!
Hope to see (frag?) you soon in Tremulous!