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Rebecca Misfit
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Join date: 7 Jun 2006
Posts: 3
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08-05-2006 21:28
I need some help installing the SL client to debian i686. I'm fairly new to Linux and this is baffling me a bit even after studying various manuals and guide books to Linux.
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Merrick Moose
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Join date: 20 Oct 2005
Posts: 191
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08-06-2006 00:57
It can be decompressed in your home directory, even on your desktop. It should be run from the terminal in that location with the script provided.
So, open a terminal.
If you decompressed it in your home directory do: cd SecondLife
Then: ./secondlife
That should start the client, if it doesn't complete it will throw an error on that screen. Copy and paste the last ten or so lines of that output in a reply here and someone will attempt to help you out.
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Theora Aquitaine
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Join date: 12 Feb 2006
Posts: 266
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08-06-2006 04:26
By the way, you decompress it with the line:
tar xjf SecondLife....tar.bz
If it doesn't work straight away, you need to ensure you also have accelerated greaphics drivers installed. These are available in the non-free part of the debian sid repository or, alternatively, if you are running debian stable, you can install the drivers direct from the ati or nvidia sites..If you do this, you also need to have installed the kernel headers for your currently running kernel.
Accelerated graphics under linux is probably the hardest thing to crack as a newbie, so please post back here if you hit any problems.
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