RLV and Linux

So I downloaded Restrained Life Viewer. I'm on Linux. The download only comes with the setting.xml and the binary, no .EXE. How am I supposed to install it? The instructions are totally convoluted and written for WINDOWS. Why are there Window directions with the Linux download?

Ugh. Help?

Linux doesn't use .exe files.

Most likely you are expected to have a matching version of LL's viewer installed, you then place the files you recieved in it's folder.

You might prefer the Cool Viewer which also has RestrainedLife available (you have to check it on in prefs and relog) as well as ooodles of other niceties and fixes and fewer crashes! The linux version and more info is here: http://sldev.free.fr/

Oy... confused.

So I put the setting.xml into my app folder... do I delete the old one? Or should they both be in there? Then what?

EDIT: Well, if I'm going to dink around with a viewer from an unknown source, the Cool Viewer does look... perhaps a bit more trustworthy. I'll give that one a shot.

But any advice is appreciated. I'm new to Linux and still finding it frustrating to use... I'm almost ready to throw up my hands and go back to Windows.

So I downloaded the Cool Viewer for Linux and I'm totally lost...

whats there to be lost? the instructions are pretty clear.

from the site:
Windlight renderer:
SecondLife_i686_1_21_6_0_CoolRelease_13-diff_files.tar.bz2 (2009/01/28 14Mb) : This tarball contains the files necessary to turn an official release candidate viewer v1.21.6 into a Cool SL Viewer v1.21.6.0. You must first install the official viewer (download it from LL), then untar this diff tarball from inside the installed directory.
New in this release: new WornInventoryTab patch.

Linux, and Open Source SL clients, sadly tend to both be made by tekkies for tekkies.

If you have a good Linux desktop (but of course I have no idea what distribution you're using), then what you should be able to do is:
1 - Right click on the .bzip2 file on your desktop.
2 - Choose an option which relates to "uncompressing" or "expanding" or "unpacking" it.
3 - Choose to unpack it, and when asked where to put it, choose the directory where you installed Second Life.

If your desktop isn't that friendly, then you'll have to do it manually, which is a pain if you're not used to it. This gets techy, I'm afraid...
1 - Start a Command Prompt (may also be called Terminal, Console, Shell, or bash)
2 - Type "cd ", space, followed by the directory where you installed Second Life (eg, cd /usr/bin/SecondLife ) and hit return.
3 - Type "cp ", space, followed by the full pathname of the Cool Viewer file you downloaded, followed by a space, and a dot, then return (eg, cp /home/user/downloads/CoolViewer . ). Note that you normally have to type the whole name of the CoolViewer file, complete with the - and all the numbers, but you might be able to save yourself this by pressing the TAB key after typing "CoolViewer".
4 - Type "bzip2 -d ", space, followed by the name of the CoolViewer file.
5 - Type "tar xf ", space, followed by the name of the CoolViewer file but LEAVING out the .bz2 on the end (if you use the TAB method it should detect that step 2 changed the name of the file)
6 - Send an e-mail to the creator of CoolViewer asking them to at least make a Linux install package.

*laughs loudly*

Wait, you aren't being serious, right? With that "instructions are pretty clear"? That looks like gibberish to me. tarball? untar? diff? tarball again . . . shesh

Oh man... I'm still feel confused a bit... I got on SL and figured out how to build complex prim-based stuff within a few days, and LSL within a week, but Linux has me completely stumpted...

Should I be opening just into my Second Life folder, or into the Apps folder itself? Should it be overriding any of the former files, or will it just sit along side them?

I tried your instructions AND the instructions on the webpage and got nothing but continuous "error" and "does not exist" messages... this is getting ridiculous.

I GOT IT!

Thanks everyone.

Woohoo! Welcome to the new found lack of freedom from your, erm, RestrainedLife...

using that viewer does not necessarily mean _restrained_ freedom, when you know what you can do with it it can also mean more freedom


as in, using the IM and chat muting features with an attachment that gives the wearer control, not a "master"... can you say "peace and quiet" but without missing the deliveries from xstreet like when you go busy?