On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 08:49, Paul <pfrederick1@yahoo.com> wrote:
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> --- In LINUX_Newbies@yahoogroups.com, Roy <linuxcanuck@...> wrote:
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>> You mistook what I said. I don't mind being wrong, but first check to make
>> sure what I said.
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> I'm sorry Roy in the future I'll try to be less obtuse. But really I thought this thread was about installing software in Linux!
No, this rambling topic has covered a lot of non-related things. You
have, however, remained true to form by wading in at the first mention
of Debian to gleefully attack Roy while waving the "Debian
Superiority" flag in everyone's face in yet another attempt to tell
everyone how inferior they are if they don't run Debian
GNU/PTA/OMG/BBQ Linux (can't forget the Acronyms, they're important)
and how it's the most bestest distribution in the whole wide world.
It's formulaic and really pointless and rude and waving it away with a
"Oh hahah my bad" just isn't going to cut it.
If you want to hang out and fellate other Debian zealots, they have
their own forums. This is not Debain_Linux, it is not Debian_Newbies,
it is LINUX_Newbies and last time I checked is distro agnostic. I
seem to recall there being several hundred distributions overall.
Here's a very abridged list of distributions for you to explore, and
believe it or not, not all of them are Debian
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Linux_distributions
Now, to get back on topic...
http://www.7-zip.org/download.html <--has a lot of pre-compiled
binaries for MANY distributions, not just Debian. They even have one
for Amiga...
There's even a blog about it:
http://www.techrecipes.net/operatingsystem/linux/extract-7z-file?
that details how to install 7zip and use it with Nautilus... The
problem is that you're basically then unzipping a package and either
running it from where you extracted the package, or running some sort
of install script. This does not mesh with the usual package
management systems (deb or rpm) so their associated databases will
have no information at all about the games you're trying to install...
thus, removing them becomes a bit of a nightmare unless you're running
them out of one directory.
As a learning experiment, have you considered contacting the games'
owners and asking why they don't release in standard Linux formats
like RPM or Deb? Or even Tarball, which is a far older and more
common package format (fairly similar to RAR files in Windows)
Linuxes also usually have a built in unzip program, you could try that
from a command line and see if it supports extracting 7zip files as
well. It may not, but it's worth a shot at least...
Cheers
Jeff
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