SL won't start in Ubuntu 8.04 64 bit

Got the latest Ubuntu finally (8.04 64 bit running an AMD 4200+ with Nvidia 8600GT) and they managed to get Nvidia drivers working with twinview! Yay! Sadly, SL won't run. If I unpack the archive and double click SecondLife it asks if I want to run it, etc. I click yes.. and nothing happens. I open a terminal and go to the SL directory and type ./secondlife and I get an error telling me that a fold for .kde is missing. There is no log directory or log file I can locate as mentioned in other posts.

username@computer:~/Desktop/SL$ ./secondlife
Running from /home/username/.local/share/Trash/files/SL.2
Warning: Did not register secondlife:// handler with KDE: Directory /home/username/.kde/share/services does not exist.
./secondlife: line 100: bin/do-not-directly-run-secondlife-bin: No such file or directory
*** Unclean shutdown. ***
./secondlife: line 108: arch: command not found

I have been told that KDE is a different GUI or something for Linux and that Ubuntu uses Gnome. Does anyone have any ideas where I am going wrong?

Sindi

The KDE errors are probably non-critical ones, ie: if KDE is present, it will set up the app links but if it isn't it just throws an error and moves on to the next stage (where it throws a more critical but unrelated error).

Does the "Do-not-directly..." binary have run perms set?
You might want to make sure your archive application preserves perms on extract? This got me first time I tried, though I can't recall the exact error(s) it threw for me.

If KDE IS needed (which I very much doubt) it can be installed from the repository via the package manager (the main difference between Ubuntu and Kubuntu (and the other flavors) is what comes on the disks by default, but you can install apps/libs/etc. from either on the other via the package manager (I use Kubuntu with several GTK apps).

your installation is faulty:

./secondlife: line 100: bin/do-not-directly-run-secondlife-bin: No such file or directory

the luncher doesn't find bin/do-not-run....



sacha

Thanks for the suggestions. Will look into them tonight. I don't know what perms the do-not-run-directly have, but as for installation, LL says there isn't one. It just runs from the directory you put it in. I figured maybe it was a corrupted download or something, so downloaded again, unpacked, and tried again. Same result. Perhaps I'll delete them all and try one more time and double check the perms in the process.

Thanks!
Sindi

Figured it out. Wasn't a corrupt download or install, but rather SL not liking the 64 bit version of Ubuntu. I got the idea to open the secondlife file in a text editor to see what I could see, since the do-not-run-secondlife-bin file is CLEARLY there. Found a small section in there specifically addressing this isue. All I had to do was install the 32 bit libraries and poof.. worked. Was told that SL usually works on 64 bit OS' but I guess that wasn't the case this time. Hadn't occurred to me to open the secondlife in a text editor before. Sneaky LL. Being a Linux newb I had to just do a search in the Synatic package manager to find them. Thanks to those that answered and hope this helps with anyone who runs into this and is clueless with Linux.

Sindi