[clue-tech] adding an icon and putting the file in the correct folder

Charles W Downing chuckdowning at earthlink.net
Sat Jan 2 08:55:21 MST 2010



Louis Miller wrote:
> Hello,
>
>        Thank you to you both! That actually worked. It took a while, 
> but it worked. The tarball got unpacked. I unpacked it in my downloads 
> folder. There was a readme file, which displayed this:
>
> To install Vega Strike, first extract the vegastrike-0.5.0 folder to 
> where you want to keep it (you can name it however you want).
>
> Then, from inside the game folder, run the "Install Vega Strike.sh" 
> installer (or type './vsinstall.sh' from a console).  This will 
> require your password to put global commands into the system folder.
Above is the key paragraph.  You probably have to do this:

cd downloads
sudo ./vsinstall.sh

Then you can do the following without being "root".
>
> To configure Vega Strike, run "vssetup".  And to run the game, run 
> "vegastrike".
> Vega Strike also installs a "mesher" which is for modelling purposes, 
> and a "vegaserver" which will allow you to run a dedicated LAN server.
>
> If you want to install shortcuts to Vega Strike, you can create a 
> "Link to an Application" to one of these commands.
>
>
> Lastly, all the documentation, including a PDF Player's Guide is 
> located in the documentation folder.  It can come in very helpful if 
> you have never played Vega Strike before.
>
>      The above instructions don't make a lot of sense to me! Do you 
> know what file I should move the unpacked tarball to, and how to run it?
>
> Louis
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Chuck Downing
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