Linux Setup Problem
 

Hey there,

Ok, as of recently I used my second computer to have a play around with Linux. I've always been fond of it and it's only been of recent that i've had a chance to play around with it.

Anyway, I thought "Hm, while i'm on here i'll try some Linux stuff" one of the first thing that came to mind was Graal Linux.

So here I am downloading Graal Linux and I try to install it only to find I get this error:

"Could not open the file /home/luc/Desktop/graal4setup/

gedit has not been able to detect the character coding.
Please check that you are not trying to open a binary file.
Select a character coding from the menu and try again."

I tried every other character coding and still no luck.

I've also tried opening the file with other applications, once again no luck.

What's the problem. I'm using Ubuntu 6.10 (latest version) of the Linux distro.

Any ideas?

Try opening a Terminal/Console and typing the following exactly:

chmod 755 /home/luc/Desktop/graal4setup
./home/luc/Desktop/graal4setup

Hmmm normally when you download it with Firefox you can click on "Open" and it will correctly start it, otherwise do like Skyld said, change the permission of the file to "executable" and run it.

Excellent, it appears to be working. Nice going.

and people still claim there is no problem's with the graal client for linux ?

There's nothing wrong with the client itself, there was something wrong with the settings on my Ubuntu. It worked before on a previous installation of it, I also didn't have the latest version of Linux's version of the .zip format.