installing .exe w/ linux

[shawshank62]

As some of you may know i have tried linux in the past with no success, but i finally got a 'puter together that runs soley linux. Mandrake 9.1 to be exact. Well i just downloaded teamspeak for linux www.teamspeak.org and it placed a .exe file on my desktop. when i click on it asks what program i want to use to do the installing i guess...well i have no idea what im supposed to use...a little help?

[jkrohn]

You downloaded the wrong file You should get a .tar.bz2

Jkrohn

[shawshank62]

interesting....ok well i d/l the correct one this time, and in the readme this is what it said

Ok, well i read the readme and i am copying the files into the directory to do a manual install, hopefully this works.


Also, there is a little coffee mug next to the time at the bottom of my screen that says fruit tea, black tea, earl tea, wth is this?

[shawshank62]

ok i copied it over, but this is what the directions say

manual install:
copy the contents of setup.data/image to the directory where you want to
install ts2. Then edit the "teamspeak" script. replace %installdir% with
the directory where you installed teamspeak to.

so how do i edit it? is there some sort of program or something?

[jkrohn]

Depending on your distribution If you are in X you can use a program like gedit or kedit which are similar to notepad.
If you are stuck at a CLI you may have pico or nano which are both very easy to use. Other than that you may have to use vim or emacs, both harder to use.

Jkrohn

[shawshank62]

i used kedit to change the information, but now how do i run the program? when i click on the icon that i edit it says

could not find the program "teamspeak"


manual install:
copy the contents of setup.data/image to the directory where you want to
install ts2. Then edit the "teamspeak" script. replace %installdir% with
the directory where you installed teamspeak to.

Enjoy!

The readme doesnt give much indication other than saying enjoy. Sorry for the dumb questions, i hate being a noob.

[jkrohn]

open up a cli and naviagte to the ts2_client_rc2_2029 directory and issue this command
./setup.sh

This will execute the setup.sh file which will hopefully launch the GUI installer

Jkrohn

[shawshank62]

when i type im in the directory and type ./setup.sh into the run command it says command not found. if i just type setup.sh it brings me on the web to say that setup.sh is available for me to buy the domain. arrrghh......

[strangerstill]

Well, I'm using Mandrake 9.1.

In Gnome all I have to do is double-click on the setup.sh file. (it has an icon with a cog over a sheet of paper)

Ditto in KDE (the file has an icon that looks like a seashell over a sheet of paper)

If you still want to run it by typing in a command you need to have a terminal open in the right directory.

[shawshank62]

well with some help from darrelld last night, he told me how to install it. First i right clicked on the file i d/l then clicked extract, and then i just double clicked on teamspeak, and it works. thx for the help everyone.