PinkyTux

ahh, okay....now I understand that you were suggesting running MS Windows in a virtual machine. Ty for clarifying that. If I get seriously desperate I may try it . I'd like to try to fix my problem without going quite so far....but if I must I will try that to. You said: "As for the budgetary constraints, I understand. Been there, done that, got the shirt. " Lol ( I cant afford the T-shirt, but maybe some day ) most of my basic software is installed and working but, some 32bit apps still arent working properly and my distro just recently released a new build. I may just wipe everything and re-install Again before trying to run exile. The new release looks promising and I really want to try it.

HareHunter, you said yep, it pays to be cautious. But....If we dont try new things that could break the OS from time to time, we dont learn those all important lessons of what absolutely Doesnt work. About hardware: Thanks for the thought, but I really dont want to dual-boot to windows. Even If was willing to do that, I'm not in a position to spend any money on something I can neiher eat, nor live in at the moment. Just keeping the rain off our heads, keeping the lights on and keeping macaroni in the cupboard sucks up all the money we can scrape together here. I'm thankful packaged mac and cheese is cheap. I have most of my software up and running, but still have a few more tweaks to do before I can try installing exile again.

Hi all, First of all I want to thank everyone who replied and offered a suggestion for trying to deal with my problem. Sorry it's taken me so long to get back to this, other more pressing issues have kept me away for a while, but I appreciate your help. I'm reading through all the suggestions and will let you know If I have any success in getting Exile 3 to run. Sylae: Your suggestion about installing a second kernel and booting to that to install and play Exile 3 sounds like it might work....but I dont feel confident enough in my linux super-user-ness to try it. You would be surprised to hear some of the seemingly simple things I've screwed up and consequently mangled my operating system. As a matter of fact I'm still trying to set-up a clean new install of my os after the last "let me try this out" experiment. One of the first things I did after basic set-up was install ia32-libs because I need it for my favorite cookbook software, so when I get everything set up again I will try again to get Exile 3 installed and running.

Hello Everyone I've been trying to install and run Exile3 on a 64bit linux operating system (LinuxMint) I downloaded the Linux Tgz file for linux from the website, and used that to try installing the game. I can get the installer to run, but the game wont, and symlinks aren't created even though I tell the installer to create them. What can I do to get the game working? Also, I see several Binary files in the game folder but have no idea what is what. Which file is the games main executable? I thought maybe I could run it in the termnal and get debug information if I knew what file to run.