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A Short Hike

a little exploration game about hiking up a mountain · By adamgryu

Not running on Pop!_OS (ubuntu)

A topic by solidaire created Jun 11, 2020 Views: 464 Replies: 4
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Sorry, there have been a lot of similar posts lately but I don't see one for a linux OS. Thank you so much for your patience and for participating in the Bundle for Racial Justice.

I downloaded the .zip from itch.io, extracted the files, and attempted to run the executable called "AShortHike.x86_64". System tells me that it's an "Unknown file type" (it's not), and that I need to "pick a program to open it [the file] with". I tried setting the file to open with "Run Software", which seemed like the obvious choice, and that got rid of the below-pictured prompt but did not run the game. Any tips?

EDIT: Same issue with the 32 bit version.

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I managed to make it run by doing the following:

1. Open Terminal

2. Navigate to the directory containing AShortHike.x86_64

3. Type

./AShortHike.x86_64

Works great! Thanks a lot, still kinda new to Linux.

We gotcha :)

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I'm adding in here just in case. 

Sometimes the file is not executable and simply running the command "./AShortHike.x86_64" will not work. 

For that type "sudo chmod +x ./AShortHike.x86_64" in terminal (just open terminal after navigating to the game folder), it will set the executable. After that just type "./AShortHike.x86_64" .

//Remove the quotation, before using the commands. Same for only x86 file.