Installing SL in Linux Mandriva.....Help

Hello All,

Can someone tell me how to install SL in linux. Im sort of new to the linux world. i am running Mandriva 2008.
(until there is a deffinate fix for Ubuntu HH)


Thanks

just untar it to any folder, it's binaries are already set up

On Fedora Core8:

Login as root

Download the viewer .tar from the Secondlife Downloads page.

Extract to somewhere like /usr/lib/games/secondlife

(I created a group called games.)

Change the directories' and files' group from root to games:

chown -R :games /user/lib/games/secondlife/*

Make sure your regular username is a member of games.

Logout root and login as a regular user.

The executable is called secondlife, so to run the viewer just open a terminal, of create a desktop launcher:

/user/lib/games/secondlife/secondlife

If you're using a Nvidia graphics card and you get a 'window creation error' message and no viewer, then you have a bit more to do.

Login as root, go to www.nvidia.com and download the latest drivers for your card. The site's a bit odd in that once you accept the licence terms, instead of getting a download, you're presented with the actual script text. What I do at this point is go back a page, right click the licence agreement link, and 'save link as' to /root/download/NVIDIA-Linux-x86-173.14.05-pkg1.run (or whatever)

Open a terminal, go to the download directory and make the driver script executable:

chmod a+x NVIDIA-Linux-x86-173.14.05-pkg1.run

Go to /etc and make a copy of inittab:
cd /etc
cp inittab inittab.old

With your favourite text editor, edit inittab, and change the line that reads:

id:5:initdefault:

to

id:3:initdefault:

Then save the file. Basically this change means that when you reboot, the x-server (the graphical windows environment) wont be loaded. The driver installer requires this run level to work.

Reboot the machine and login as root (this will just be a plain text Linux remember)

cd /root/download

Run the driver script:

./NVIDIA-Linux-x86-173.14.05-pkg1.run

Accept all the default options. At one point it will probably ask if its ok to recompile the kernel, accept this. Also it may ask to change x-server configuration to use the Nvidia drivers as default, once again accept.

If the script fails it's probably because of missing dependancies, eg. you haven't got the gcc compiler loaded. In this example just

yum install gcc

Then re-run the Nvidia script.

Finally edit /etc/inittab and change the line you edited back to

id:5:initdefault:

Then reboot:

shutdown -r now

Your system should load as normal, and you can now run Secondlife.

I don't believe you have to go through all that. Especially editing init, that can be dangerous for newbs. A newb is asking.

Dunno why a fix is needed for ubuntu, it should be fine.

I haven't used Redhat (RPM system) for several years now but I would have thought that simply un zipping and running is enough there too.

I run KDE on ubuntu. HH
I download the file. Open Konqueror (The best file manager/worktool ever) right-click the file and select "Extract Here".
It unpacks in 30 seconds. Goto the new unpacked folder and simply click on secondlife file. It opens up and awaayyy we gooo. No install needed.

As a long time linux user and helper. When somebody asks me howto, I always show via gui tools. Never cli. CLI is so 20th century. (Except for experts) Let's help move linux forward.

Don't surf the Web as root. Just don't. You can use files you downloaded as normal user as root. But if you don't intend to use Second Life from several system accounts, it's easiest to just unpack and run it from your normal user account, e.g. in a new directory under your home dir.

http://get.secondlife.com/ will automatically offer you the matching archive for your system.
If that doesn't work, go to http://secondlife.com/support/downloads.php

Right-click the downloaded archive and choose "Unpack here" (or equivalent, exact wording might vary for different desktop managers). If this isn't available, open a terminal and run
cd /path/of/the/directory/where/the/download/is
tar -xjf filename_of_download.tar.bz2

To start the viewer, run the secondlife script in the unpacked directory, either by double click or from a terminal:
cd /path/of/the/unpacked/directory
./secondlife

That's what that person did, that is UP TO THEM, they simply shared what they knew about it and did. stop biting the hands the help you up