wings 3d on linux...

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Mon Mar 14, 2005 5:44 pm

i am newbie on linux and need some help running this damn stuff on linux....i downloaded wings3d and the file is wings3d-x.x.x.x.run.gz ?!
what i need to do with this?

laforced · Post by **laforced** » Mon Mar 14, 2005 8:38 pm

You need a utility to extract the archive which is
in gzipped format. You can learn about archive
formats by google search. Once you know about
the tools for unzipping an archive then you will be
able to extract the program files and use the program.

vermeer · Post by **vermeer** » Mon Mar 14, 2005 9:30 pm

kde and gnome I think even bring some tools for that, if you marked during custom install...

but you have a mine of tools in command line form...all have tar , and gzip must be there too.It usually is a tar.gz.

Don't quote me on this, but I think it's use gzip first, then uncompress with tar...I think both are allways included...browse a bit your folders... I hope your at least a bit confident with console...

btw, if u have a multiboot like I used to have, in the windows partition (if u formated it in fat32) you could copy there the tar.gz and uncompress with winzip...I think it can. Till you are in windows, of course.

But should be no issue to uncompress a tar.gz in your linux, is quite a very basic thing in linux, and it's done constantly.

mm765 · Post by **mm765** » Mon Mar 14, 2005 10:49 pm

gunzip wings3d-x.x.x.x.run.gz

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Mon Mar 14, 2005 11:05 pm

well i know some "tricks" in linux and i am familiar with terminal and some commnads...and i knew that i dont need to use console to upack this archive,i just used konqueror....i have this file wings-0.98.26b-linux.run.gz..i unpacked it...and now i have this file wings-0.98.26b-linux.run..what i should do now?!

i am using knoppix/debian installed at hdd. kernel 2.4.27

mm765 · Post by **mm765** » Mon Mar 14, 2005 11:40 pm

chmod +x wings-0.98.26b-linux.run
./wings-0.98.26b-linux.run

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Tue Mar 15, 2005 12:11 am

thanks a lot man..it works....display is kinda corrupt..i need opengl driver installed...

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Tue Mar 15, 2005 12:28 am

..thanx again man...and i dont want to annoy but what is the easiest way to instal ati drivers...i see you know how to use linux properly..

mm765 · Post by **mm765** » Tue Mar 15, 2005 1:20 am

sorry, i cant help you with that, i dont use ati cards.

afecelis · Post by **afecelis** » Tue Mar 15, 2005 2:59 am

MM is the linux man!

hybrid · Post by **hybrid** » Wed Mar 16, 2005 8:53 am

Anonymous wrote:..thanx again man...and i dont want to annoy but what is the easiest way to instal ati drivers...i see you know how to use linux properly..

that really depends on your distribution. For RedHat and SuSe just use their graphical setup tools (you might need to install some rpm before, but should be warned about it. Mandrake might be the same, too.) For debian, you will have to search for a good description on the web, might help for the others, too.
If the driver is not supported by your distribution, you will need to set it up manually. Therefore, you will need the kernel sources installed, since you're required to compile a kernel module.
Download the driver, unpack if a .tar.* file, or use rpm -U rpm-file if it's an rpm. The latter might compile the module on its own, the tar file will give you some directory with a readme. Will need something like ./configure && make && make install. then you have to update /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 to use the correct driver. Search for an example on the web, it's too complicated to set it up from scratch.

RabidLockerGnome unlogged · Wed Mar 16, 2005 6:09 pm

im glad i have nvidia... their drivers are really whats keeping them above ati, for me anyways. i cant wait for the day that ATI cards have superior drivers... will be wonderful hehe