How to install second life with ubuntu

I did download the tar files and so on, did extract them, but can't figure out how to install.
I can't find any read me file at all.

Are there any instructions webpages on how to do this that I can look up?

Have been searching for hours now.

Am totally new in gaming...

thnx in advance

First of all, make sure that you unzip the file from the terminal-- not the File Browser.

To do this, open a terminal, and go to your Home directory (you're probably dropped there by default). In my setup, for instance, I have FireFox place the downloads file to /home/Egon/Downloads.

If I wanted to "install" the program in my /home/Egon/Games folder, I'd cd to Games, then type the following command:

tar -xvvf ../Downloads/SecondLife_1_10_4_4.tar.bz2

(that option string is - x v v f -- without the spaces)

Since I'm sitting in Games, a new folder will be created there called SecondLife_1_10_4_4, and all the files will end up in there, where they're supposed to be.

Next, I cd to that new folder, and execute the secondlife file (shell script). I can do this from either the command line, or from File Browser.

Hope that helps!

I've done the above but i'm getting an error -

"bin/secondlife-bin: error while loading shared libraries: libdb-4.2.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory"

I've looked in the repositories for libdb-4.2.so but it's not there.
According to google its to do with the Berkeley DB database library.

Think i'm gonna go download the windows client and run under wine. lol


(ubuntu 6.06. fully updated)

OK - actually SEARCHED the forums...
Found out I needed Berkeley DB database library 4.2 installed.
PLease ignore this post

Hiya,

you might find, as I did, that Dapper Drake (Ubuntu 6.06) has a later version of libdb installed. In my case, I had libdb-4.3.so, which was preventing the client from running at all.

All I did to fix this was to open a terminal up, and type:

cd /usr/lib

sudo ln -s libdb-4.3.so libdb-4.2.so

which creates a symbolic link to the newer version, but has the correct name for secondlife to run.

Hope this helps!

-- Jay

Easy Ubuntu way:
DL the client
Right Click -> Extract here
You'll get the directory rename it and place it whereever you want if it's not already there
Then go System ->Administration-> Synaptic Package Manager -> Do a search for 'libdb4.2' and then install it.

It should run after that by either double clicking the secondlife file in the directory of running it from the terminal.
cd /yoursecondlifedirectory/
./secondlife

or if it's being stubborn for some reason as mine does sometimes

sudo ./secondlife

Oh, run it with root perms? THAT is smart. Next you will be playing psDOOM as root with the BFG.

Often the case is that SL is asking for older libraries than Ubuntu has. You can either find those libraries and place them in SecondLife/lib or create a sym link to the one on your system, If if secondlife is looking for somelib.so.4.1 and your system has somelib.so.4.3 you should be able to sym link to the newer version and have backwards compatibility.