How to install SL

Please Please Help Me.

Ive Tried To Install Sl Onto My Acer Linux Laptop. Each Time I Do I Get That There Is A Error In The Command Line. THIS HAPPENS WHEN I EXTRACT IT.

What Do I Do??

All Replies Gratefully Appreciated. Ive Been Without Sl For Weeks And Weeks And This Is Driving Me Crazy!!!!

EDITED FOR ERRORS IN MY SPELLING

Exactly how are you trying to extract, from a menu or with commands at a command prompt?

If it's typed commands at a command prompt, what exactly are you typing?

What is the exact text of the error message?

what happens is, i download sl. great. open the file, good so far, it opens with Xarchiver, then i extract the files, halfway thru extracting the files, i get the message 'there is a error in the command line, do you want to see the error'. i have no idea how to use linux, this is the first time i have had it. so i have absolutely no knowledge on how to use linux, and things such as entering commands etc.

thank you for taking the time xx

Try re-downloading the file.

I have tried many times. i remove it, then download again, and still the same thing. *sighs

if someone has the codes etc for downloading and installing via a terminal window, that would be good, possibly

thanks

I'm looking at an article that says Acer is using Linpus Linux Lite, is that correct?

# I'm putting #-sings in front of comments,
# so this here can just be cut&past'ed into a terminal.
#
# I assume the terminal opens in your home directory (~)
# I also assume that the shell in the terminal is bash,
# but I'd be surprised if it isn't, so let's not worry about that just now.
# Let's create a new directory for SL ...
mkdir SL
# ... and change into it:
cd SL # note that linux is case sensitive
# The terminal is now in the new directory named "SL".
# Let's get the archive (might take some while to download) ...
wget http://download.cloud.secondlife.com/SecondLife-i686-1.21.6.99587.tar.bz2
# ... and unpack it:
tar -xjf SecondLife-i686-1.21.6.99587.tar.bz2
# That's it -- no installation is needed. Let's change back to the home directory
cd # no argument --> cd asumes you want to change to your home dir
# If there weren't any problems in the process above, you can now run SL by
./SL/SecondLife-i686-1.21.6.99587/secondlife

yes that is correct.

i also get messages that say that nautilus is not running, but my file manager is Thunar???

i am not happy!!!!

Ack!

Ubuntu for the winning Linux OS. http://www.ubuntu.com/

THANK YOU FOR TAKING THE TIME TO DO THAT FOR ME.
how ever when i do all that you said, i get that the file isnt recognised, no such file or directory.

it is bash and ~ is home. i am just so confused *sighs

thank you for that, but it says about creating a cd.... i have no disk drive!!!

No CD ROM drive whatsoever? Hmmm.... Anyone know how to create a bootable image on a thumbdrive?

Methinks you've got a severely bastardized Linux distro on your system, particularly if it complains about Nautilus not running, and doesn't know how to handle tar.bz2 files...

Will have to research that distro later.

thanks. i only got this as it was cheap lol that will teach me. shoulda stuck to windows lol

may have to see about upgrading and installing suse possibly???

Go with Ubuntu, it is divine.

Except with my ATI + SL.. But i still love it.

do you know where i could get ubuntu without needing a disk. no drives for it. a pure simple download would be nice, i cant find one...... knowing my luck, i wont be ableto get it on the laptop. me and linux = not good *smiles

Should be possible, but looks rather difficult: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Installation/Netboot

I myself am a gentoo user. A CD-less gentoo installation from an existing Linux installation isn't much more difficult than the "standard" boot-from-CD gentoo installation: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/altinstall.xml#doc_chap5 (I've done it myself for a rented server (with preinstalled SuSE) to which I don't have physical access) But even the "standard" gentoo installation isn't something I'd recommend to someone new to Linux. And for the CD-less one, your existing distribution would have to be able to unpack tarballs.

So the easiest will probably be to just get an external CD-ROM drive (I guess your laptop does have USB, doesn't it?) External drives might be slightly more expensive then internal ones (for desktop PCs), but you'd be able to use such a drive for different computers by just plugging it in to the machine where it's needed at the moment.

If you decide to buy some hardware, you might also consider whether you'd also like to burn CDs (then get an external CD burner), read (playback) DVDs (then get an external DVD drive), burn CDs and read DVDs (get a so-called combo drive) or all of the above + burn DVDs (get an external DVD burner).

http://unetbootin.sourceforge.net/ looks like it does a net boot + install in a user friendly way.
I never tried it so I can't say how good it works. Make sure to backup any data you want to keep before you use it.


better take the way Boroondas describes.

thankyou all so much, have finally managed to install SL, so thank you all so much for your help *smiles big and happy xxxx

Did you install SL using the original version of Linux that came with your system?

Does SL work, or is it just installed?

How well does SL work? What FPS do you get?'

What was going wrong, what did you do to get to install?

What kind of video processor does it have?

What did you do to get it to work?

I just looked up the stats on Linpus Lite, cross-referenced it with Acer, and immediate red flags just went up for me!

Is your Acer an Aspire One?

If so, then that's a netbook, not a full-fledged laptop. In other words, it simply not have enough power to run SL well, if at all. I can't elaborate more on this because I'm having a hard time finding out what it uses for graphics and the capability of whatever it's using. It harms nothing to try, but I just don't think you're going to get usable performance out of it.

to be honest i dont know what i did. ive been fiddling so much with the netbook, that i thought id give it one more go,and the instructions that are posted on the first page of this thread worked. so i installed and it runs. everytime. it doesnt run very well, its really slow and laggy. and typing takes a while, but its there. FPS?? no idea!!. i am a complete linux newbie.
what was going wrong was,via SL's download page, it wouldnt install properly. the Xarchiver wasnt allowing me to extract. but someone kindly posed the commands so i could finally get in. not sure what i had done, but it all worked

you are quite right, SL is slow via this netbook. but it works, slowly. and it will do till i sort out my pc. i blew it up over christmas. not a good thing to do. so now i need a new one!!!

any tips for making it a nicer, slightly better SL is gratefully received!!