Running?

I'm a Linux noob. How do I run this?

1. Go here: http://stux.wikiinfo.org/moin.py/LinuxClient
2. Download slutils-0.3.tar.bz2
3. Open a terminal and change to the directory you downloaded that file.
4. Run "tar -xvjf slutils-0.3.tar.bz2" (that's without the quotes, of course)
5. change to the newly created slutiles-0.3 directory.
6. follow the instructions in the README file, then
7. run slupdate, then sl

Hope this helps... for a poorly written intro to the command line, see my website:
http://silenceisdefeat.org/~darkside/dstech/index.php?cat=linux_tutorials&page=command_line_basics

or google for one, which will probably be written better

Hmmm, this is where Zonax's installer was better. Download a single uncomressed perl script, chmod, run.

Hmmm I would stsill say, the easyers way is go to http://secondlife.com/community/linux-alpha.php
download the file to a nice locations (~/Games/ or something)
tar xjf SecondLife_1_10_2_2.tar.bz2
cd SecondLife_1_10_2_2
./secondlife

Maybe it's just me, but I never was a fan of scripts that aren't really needed.

I'm a noob as well and tried that:
maverynthia@arctic:~/SecondLife_1_10_3_3$ ./secondlife
bin/secondlife-bin: error while loading shared libraries: libdb-4.2.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or direct

Now what? Also SLUtils isn't available for download on that page...at least I didn't find it..

You might need to run:
ln -s /usr/lib/libdb-4.3.so ./lib/libdb-4.2.so
inside the SL directory. It's linked to a older version
Edit: Why did I think it was in /var? Jeebus only knows....

You need to install libdb

You need to install libdb-4.2, or if not available for your distro, then install libdb-4.3 and make a symbolic link to it in your local second life lib directory, named to look like libdb-4.2 (as recommended in the post above).

You need to install libdb-4.2, or if not available for your distro, then install libdb-4.3 and make a symbolic link to it in your local second life lib directory, named libdb-4.2.so (as recommended in the post above, although the usual place for it would be /usr/lib not /var/lib).

Cool thanks for the help ^_^

I had no problem launching at home on my Kubuntu Dapper box, but here at work errr somewhere else I had this error. I found /usr/lib/ had libdb-4.1.so and libdb-4.3.so but no 4.2

So I symlinked 4.2 to the existing 4.3 and voila!

Oh, this is on a SuSe 10.0 box.

Ok, bear with me, I am a linux uber-noob...

This is what I get, after doing what was recommended above.

bin/secondlife-bin: error while loading shared libraries: lib/libfreetype.so.6: cannot restore segment prot after reloc: Permission denied

Any ideas?

You can get CrossOver Office and then install the windows client.
I will be doing that until the linux client is more stable.

The more people usea non-native client, the LESS bug reports and attantion LL will give us.
BTW: I've had NO client problems since 1.10.3.3

Here neither, if we leave out the already known issues (like no sound, missing key-repeat, etc)

So I take it that I'm screwed if I want to play SL on my new installation of Fedora.

Yay.

Why is that Pace ??

Sorry Pace, exactly what did you do, and what were the results?

Pace,

This might not be it, but give us the output from

ls -l lib/libfreetype.so.6

Ran from within the SecondLife folder.

What I did, was the linking of the binary previously mentioned.. That was what the lastrun.log was complaining about first. Now, the cut-paste that I posted up is my new error with SL.

Now, this is what I have from the LS command you asked for.

[Pace@localhost SecondLife_1_10_3_4]$ ls -l lib/libfreetype.so.6
-rwxrwxrwx 1 Pace Pace 1432425 Jun 15 13:03 lib/libfreetype.so.6
[Pace@localhost SecondLife_1_10_3_4]$

It is a problem with SELinux. As a quick fix: disable SElinux by editing the /etc/selinux/config file and commenting out all lines. Then add this line to the file: SELINUX=disabled. Reboot, and SL should work.

I don't know anything about configuring SElinux as I don't have it installed, but the above fix should work.

Well that shows there is no perms error ... hmm

Try Theora's fix, sound feasible.

What is SELinux? Even after SU'ing I can't save the file.. looks like I have to do that as root.

Secure Linux Kernel

A bit of overkill for a Desktop IMO


try uname -a comand see if that tells you have an SE Kernel or not. It might help.

Well, I guess I will just run SL on a windows machine, because I am not comprimising my systems security measures just so I can play a game. If LL can't make a program that doesn't require me to modity MY software to operate it... well.. there's issues, at their end.