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Need help with installing on Ubuntu

Posted: Thu May 05, 2011 2:18 am
by Sickwhips
Computer crashed with W7 so i switched to linux and im pretty new to it, but i cannot figure out how to install mx sim. I have the full game, 1.4 linux version. Any help on this would be appreciated.

Re: Need help with installing on Ubuntu

Posted: Thu May 05, 2011 3:15 am
by jlv
This should do it:

cd /whereever/you/want/to/install
tar xzf mxsimulator-1_4-linux-x86.tar.gz
cd mxsimulator-1_4
./mx

Re: Need help with installing on Ubuntu

Posted: Thu May 05, 2011 3:53 am
by Sickwhips
i got a "No such file in directory" message

Re: Need help with installing on Ubuntu

Posted: Thu May 05, 2011 4:34 am
by Sickwhips
"*OR directory"

Re: Need help with installing on Ubuntu

Posted: Thu May 05, 2011 5:13 am
by jlv
Whoops! Let me ammend that to this:

cd /whereever/you/want/to/install
tar xzf /full/path/to/mxsimulator-1_4-linux-x86.tar.gz
cd mxsimulator-1_4
./mx

Re: Need help with installing on Ubuntu

Posted: Thu May 05, 2011 5:24 am
by Sickwhips
hmm same error, does this work for like off of a disk? because mines just a downloaded file from my purchase link.

Re: Need help with installing on Ubuntu

Posted: Thu May 05, 2011 5:34 am
by jlv
You aren't literally typing "/whereever/you/want/to/install" and "/full/path/to" are you? You need to replace those with the actual paths.

Re: Need help with installing on Ubuntu

Posted: Thu May 05, 2011 5:47 am
by Sickwhips
no, i typed the paths.

Re: Need help with installing on Ubuntu

Posted: Thu May 05, 2011 9:32 pm
by jlv
"No such file or directory" means it couldn't find a file. Check the pathnames and make sure they actually exist.

Re: Need help with installing on Ubuntu

Posted: Fri May 06, 2011 1:28 am
by Sickwhips
well, i have the files on my home folder, and that also where i want to install. is there something wrong with that or can you tell me where to put them or where to install them. Linux is really confusing idk how it works..

Re: Need help with installing on Ubuntu

Posted: Fri May 06, 2011 4:15 am
by jlv
Assuming mxsimulator-1_4-linux-x86.tar.gz is in your home directory, this should do it:

cd ~
tar xzf mxsimulator-1_4-linux-x86.tar.gz
cd mxsimulator-1_4
./mx

Re: Need help with installing on Ubuntu

Posted: Fri May 06, 2011 6:16 am
by Sickwhips
i got this copy and paste straight from terminal.

ryan@ryan-UL50VT:~$ cd ~
ryan@ryan-UL50VT:~$ tar xzf mxsimulator-1_4-linux-x86.tar.gz
tar (child): mxsimulator-1_4-linux-x86.tar.gz: Cannot open: No such file or directory
tar (child): Error is not recoverable: exiting now
tar: Child returned status 2
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
ryan@ryan-UL50VT:~$ cd mxsimulator-1_4
ryan@ryan-UL50VT:~/mxsimulator-1_4$ ./mx

Re: Need help with installing on Ubuntu

Posted: Sat May 07, 2011 4:15 am
by jlv
If it's saying that mxsimulator-1_4-linux-x86.tar.gz isn't in your home directory. It might be in "~/Downloads/mxsimulator-1_4-linux-x86.tar.gz".

Re: Need help with installing on Ubuntu

Posted: Sat Jun 30, 2012 10:52 am
by vmaki
Hello

I'm having similiar problems. I'm on a macbookpro and I first played the game with crossover. It worked fine except I couldn't get my controller working. Then I decided to dual boot windows 8 preview. Now the problem was the windows. It just kept crashing. So I dual booted ubuntu. All went smooth but the game won't start. I untarred it into my home folder with the correct permissions but something is wrong. The ubuntu I have is 64bit if that matters.

tatu@MacBookPro:~$ cd ~
tatu@MacBookPro:~$ tar xzf '/home/tatu/mxsimulator-1_7-linux-x86.tar.gz'
tatu@MacBookPro:~$ cd mxsimulator-1_7
tatu@MacBookPro:~/mxsimulator-1_7$ ./mx
./mx: line 10: /home/tatu/mxsimulator-1_7/mxbin: No such file or directory
tatu@MacBookPro:~/mxsimulator-1_7$

any help is appreciated. Thanks.

Re: Need help with installing on Ubuntu

Posted: Sat Jun 30, 2012 11:29 pm
by jlv
Is mxbin there? Type "ls -l" after you "cd mxsimulator-1_7".