Installing in Ubuntu Terminal
- Fallen_Phillip
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Installing in Ubuntu Terminal
Since I don't know how to install from packages, I was following the directions to install Minetest in the terminal. However, once I got to the step that says "$ cd Minetest" I get the message "bash: cd: minetest: No such file or directory". This happens every single time. How do I fix this?
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Ok. So, do I unzip the file "minetestc55_20110731-3~natty1.tar.gz"? And if I do how, specifically, do I install it? I get the message
"dpkg-deb: error: `minetestc55_20110731-3~natty1.tar.gz' is not a debian format archive
dpkg: error processing minetestc55_20110731-3~natty1.tar.gz (--install):
subprocess dpkg-deb --control returned error exit status 2
Errors were encountered while processing:
minetestc55_20110731-3~natty1.tar.gz"
and I think I'm doing it wrong.
"dpkg-deb: error: `minetestc55_20110731-3~natty1.tar.gz' is not a debian format archive
dpkg: error processing minetestc55_20110731-3~natty1.tar.gz (--install):
subprocess dpkg-deb --control returned error exit status 2
Errors were encountered while processing:
minetestc55_20110731-3~natty1.tar.gz"
and I think I'm doing it wrong.
you will first need to put the archive into the folder where you want to run the game from then do the following command "tar -zxvf minetestc55_20110731-3~natty1.tar.gz" without the quotes.
That will extract the archive into the current folder, then you just need to cd into the bin directory and then do the following command "./minetest" to run the game ^_^
I'm not 100% sure where you got that package from as I play minetest on windows, but as long as its been built the usual way then what I've said above should work, if however its been built differently then the minetest file may be in another dir.
But any problems give us a shout mate.
EDIT: ok found where you got the package from, that is actually the source code that you have ^_^ you will need to download one of the builds amd64 if you have a 64-bit system or i386 if not then you run the command "dpkg -i file_name.deb" that Sfan5 posted.
Sorry for the confusion wasn't sure where you had got that archive from.
That will extract the archive into the current folder, then you just need to cd into the bin directory and then do the following command "./minetest" to run the game ^_^
I'm not 100% sure where you got that package from as I play minetest on windows, but as long as its been built the usual way then what I've said above should work, if however its been built differently then the minetest file may be in another dir.
But any problems give us a shout mate.
EDIT: ok found where you got the package from, that is actually the source code that you have ^_^ you will need to download one of the builds amd64 if you have a 64-bit system or i386 if not then you run the command "dpkg -i file_name.deb" that Sfan5 posted.
Sorry for the confusion wasn't sure where you had got that archive from.
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The package your trying to install is the source code archive, you need to download one of the deb files from my previous post and do that command on one of them ^_^
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