Starting SL in Fedora 9 PLZ HELP

Forgive me for being a total Linux Noob. Can anyone tell me how to lauch the linux client for SL?

You're not giving us a lot to go on as to your current state, what you've done, what symptoms result.

First of all, I'll assume you managed to download either the latest stable or latest release candidate from the appropriate place. This file is a so-called "tar-ball" (a tar file containing an entire, ready-to-run application; "tar" is the short for "tape archive"; it's an old name and tapes need not be involved).

In order to run SL, you have to unpack that tar-ball archive. A command line like the following will do (the percent sign represents your shell prompt). This assumes you took the stable release. Either change directory (cd) to the directory into which you downloaded the tar-ball, or use a full path name instead of the simple one shown here:

% tar jxfC SecondLife_i686_1_19_1_4.tar.bz2 ~

Now in your home directory, there will be a new subdirectory called SecondLife_i686_1_19_1_4. You can always refer to this directory as ~/SecondLife_i686_1_19_1_4

In this directory is the launcher for the Second Life viewer. It's called secondlife (amazing, eh?). You can launch Second Life by simply issuing this command (again, the % is your prompt):

% ~/SecondLife_i686_1_19_1_4/secondlife >~/SL-log 2>&1 &


The funky characters following ... /secondlife keep the voluminous trace output produced by the Second Life viewer from flooding all over your screen and also allow you to run other commands from that shell even while Second Life remains running.


Rudy