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Autonauts community · Replied to Denki in Linux version

Just to be sure, I checked on the permissions of the files unzipped straight into my home directory:

jonathan@Odin:~$ ls -l Autonauts.*
-rw-rw-r-- 1 jonathan jonathan 31722796 Jul 23 09:24 Autonauts.x86
-rw-rw-r-- 1 jonathan jonathan 31348864 Jul 23 09:24 Autonauts.x86_64

You see that the owner and group (me, since I unzipped the files) have only read/write permissions (rw-); others have only read access(r--). To run the files, I have to set the execute permission, which I do with

jonathan@Odin:~$ chmod u+x Autonauts.*

u+x means 'add the execute permission for the user (owner)'. Then the listing shows:

jonathan@Odin:~$ ls -l Autonauts.*
-rwxrw-r-- 1 jonathan jonathan 31722796 Jul 23 09:24 Autonauts.x86

If I was going to install the files somewhere where any user of this machine (Odin) could run them, then I'd use

chmod a+x Autonauts.*

You could try shipping the files with the execute permissions set; I don't know if that might trigger some security problems in some machines. Most Linux users would be OK using chmod, as I have above.

More on chmod and permissions at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chmod#Symbolic_modes

Cheers

Jonathan

Autonauts community · Created a new topic Linux version

Jno7 years ago

You wrote "... the Linux version is untested", so I thought I'd let you know my experience. I unpacked Autonauts_Version_10_Linux_Universal.zip into a folder under usr/local/ and used

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$ chmod -R u+x

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to make sure that the executables were, um, executable.

I ran Autonauts.x86_64 successfully for about an hour, with no issues at all, except perhaps that the sound effects continue when using Esc to pause the game - that may be a feature, I don't know!

There are some system details below, in case that helps with the Linux version - I'd like to think that you'll continue with it.

Jonathan
KDE Neon 5.8; kernel version 4.10.0-33-generic; AMD Phenom II X4 965 CPU; nVidia GeForce GTX450 GPU with nVidia-375 driver; 4GB RAM