Linux Newbie Question

I've just started using SUSE but I am an SL addict so I wanted to try this out. I have it extracted to my home folder, but when I click the script it just goes into kWrite. Can anyone give a complete linux newb information on how to get it to run the script? I'm using KDE, obviously.

[EDIT]: I actually re-extracted it, and now it wont even open in kWrite. It just sits and does nothing. Help??

First thing to do is open the file properties and set the script to 'is executable' under the permissions tab.

I went and checked it. It is already set to executable.

try running it from a terminal rather then just doubleclicking it? There should be a terminal (Terminal, Konsole, ....) somewhere in the menu.
Then do
cd <path-to-directory>
and next:
./secondlife

Alright. I will give it a shot as soon as I get back home.

Okay. So I did cd <path to directory> and then ./secondlife

It seemed to respond but this is what it returned. It seems to be looking for a library file called libsdl-1.2.so.0 but I can't find this in the lib directory or in the zip file either. Any clues? Is this some other type of library package I need to download?

y2mattitude@linux-218e:~/SecondLife_i686_1_13_3_2> ./secondlife
bin/do-not-directly-run-secondlife-bin: error while loading shared libraries: libSDL-1.2.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

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This is an ALPHA release of the Second Life linux client.
Thank you for testing!
You can visit the Linux Client Alpha Testers forum at:
/invalid_link.html
Please see README-linux.txt before reporting problems.

[EDIT:] Upon further digging, I found the packages I need. Thanks for your help guys. I know it is probably annoying, I'm just trying to ween myself off of Miicrosoft.

you may need to install this library... I'm on ubuntu, so I cannot give you the exact command needed, but try searching the suse package manager (is this yast?) for libsdl ...

anyone else here with suse that can give the exact way of installing it??

Care to share what they are? For people who don't know (i.e. meee )

SDL-1.2.x...

There's another one too isn't there? because after doing that one you get the error asking for 'libuuid.so.1'

I don't use SUSE, but from a quick google, this seems to be provided by e2fsprogs.

I just installed Fedora core 6 and thought i would try SL on it. I get the "bin/do-not-directly-run-secondlife-bin: error while loading shared libraries: libSDL-1.2.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory"error and can't seem to find the right librairie package to installe anyone else using this build?

Basically you need to install SDL. I think it is available as a yum install.. Should be fairly straightforward. Perhaps someone who uses FC could give you more info?

1. Well done on trying Linux.

2. Try cutting and pasting the error message into Google.

3. Press F4 in Konqueror (the file explorer) to get a terminal window up and type the name of the file in that to run it. That will give you lots of feedback of what the program is doing (to paste into Google lol). Somewhere you will find someone else has this problem and you can get your heads together.

4. Well done again for trying.

And if all else fails boot into Windows and come on in ( I have a spare License you can have, IM me if you need it)

Regards
S