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Amdra Welesa
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Join date: 27 Mar 2005
Posts: 3
09-30-2006 12:16
Would someone be most kind and talk me through getting second life to run on my system, its already downloaded and nvidia card is running

thanks
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Theora Aquitaine
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Join date: 12 Feb 2006
Posts: 266
09-30-2006 16:47
Open an x-terminal, type

tar xjf SecondLife <tab>
cd SecondL <tab>
./secondlife

You should see some text whizz by, and if everything is set up properly it will run. If it does not, note the error message and report back here.
Amdra Welesa
Registered User
Join date: 27 Mar 2005
Posts: 3
x window?
10-01-2006 15:28
Thank you for helping me Theora.....

i can not even find the x terminal in xandros, only the console. in vector linux i had the x window.

this is just all so confusing............if you know where the x window is in xandros im sure i could get it started

Thank you again
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Drake Bacon
Linux is Furry
Join date: 13 Jul 2005
Posts: 443
10-01-2006 20:17
Look around the main menu, ether Accessories or System, for Terminal or Konsole. If you have the first (Terminal in Accessories) you're in the GNOME enviroment. If you find Konsole in System, you're using KDE.

I'm not sure if Xandros installs Gnome or KDE as a default, so look both ways. I know Ubuntu installs Gnome, Kubuntu does KDE, Slack is KDE, Knoppix is KDE (but it can do Gnome), RedHat I belive is Gnome.
Theora Aquitaine
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Join date: 12 Feb 2006
Posts: 266
10-02-2006 01:10
Basically you just need a window with a command prompt in your graphical environment.. Don't worry too much what it is called.. xterm, aterm, eterm, konsole, terminal.
Amdra Welesa
Registered User
Join date: 27 Mar 2005
Posts: 3
10-02-2006 14:30
thank you all so much for helping me, i just feel totally out of element with linux right now, but willing to learn


this is the error i got back


tar xjf SecondLife_i686_1_12_1_13/cd SecondLife_i686_1_12_1_13/./secondlife
tar: SecondLife_i686_1_12_1_13/cd: Cannot open: No such file or directory
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
tar: Child returned status 2
tar: SecondLife_i686_1_12_1_13/./secondlife: Not found in archive
tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
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Merrick Moose
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Join date: 20 Oct 2005
Posts: 191
10-02-2006 15:08
From: Amdra Welesa
thank you all so much for helping me, i just feel totally out of element with linux right now, but willing to learn


this is the error i got back


tar xjf SecondLife_i686_1_12_1_13/cd SecondLife_i686_1_12_1_13/
tar: SecondLife_i686_1_12_1_13/cd: Cannot open: No such file or directory
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
tar: Child returned status 2
tar: SecondLife_i686_1_12_1_13/./secondlife: Not found in archive
tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors



Each is a separate command.
At a terminal put in:

tar xjf SecondLife_i686_1_12_1_13/

Hit enter, then put in:

cd SecondLife_i686_1_12_1_13/

Hit enter and put in:

./secondlife

In order those commands decompress/extract the tar file(think of it as a zip file), the next command puts you in the folder which you just extracted, then the last command runs the sl client.