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Upgrading on Ubuntu for a noob

Valus Valiant
Registered User
Join date: 30 Oct 2006
Posts: 4
11-13-2007 05:06
Hello,
I'm running SL client v.1.18.2.1 on UBUNTU 7.10, and almost everything works fine, except for some crash.
I've found that client as a compiled .deb file, ready to install, so as a noob I really need a little tutorial about how-to-do, step by step, to install the new 1.18.4.3 starting from the tar.gz file.
Does someone have enough patience to help me? :P
Thanks a lot in advance.
Kristopher Tenk
Registered User
Join date: 11 Apr 2007
Posts: 153
11-13-2007 07:34
Easiest way

1. Extract
2. Double click secondlife
3. Select run
4. Play

To remove the .deb

1. Open terminal
2. sudo apt-get remove secondlife
Valus Valiant
Registered User
Join date: 30 Oct 2006
Posts: 4
11-13-2007 07:59
It sounds like:
"you are not only a nood, but a stupid one!" :D

Yes, maybe.
I'll try NOW.
Valus Valiant
Registered User
Join date: 30 Oct 2006
Posts: 4
11-13-2007 08:19
From: Kristopher Tenk
Easiest way

1. Extract
2. Double click secondlife
3. Select run
4. Play

To remove the .deb

1. Open terminal
2. sudo apt-get remove secondlife


Ok. It works, I've started the new client directly from the unpacked folder.
Now I miss only this step: how to make it visible in applications and make it start *instead* of the old one? I wish to uninstall the old one and make it go by a double click on an icon.
As a just-coming-from-windows noob, it's a must... isn't it? :)
Thanks.