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OpenXcom => Troubleshooting => Topic started by: karatewalrus on February 24, 2020, 04:35:53 pm

Title: openxcom extended installation help
Post by: karatewalrus on February 24, 2020, 04:35:53 pm

Hello,

I downloaded openxcom extended from here
https://openxcom.org/forum/index.php?topic=5258.0

It's got a shared library file called 'OpenXcomEx' but I dunno how to run that.

Thanks,
Me

Title: Re: openxcom extended installation help
Post by: Meridian on February 24, 2020, 04:52:05 pm

https://www.ufopaedia.org/index.php/Installing_(OpenXcom) (https://www.ufopaedia.org/index.php/Installing_(OpenXcom))

Title: Re: openxcom extended installation help
Post by: karatewalrus on February 24, 2020, 05:21:34 pm

I do have the dependencies installed. It says 'there is 'no application installed for "shared library" files.' Should it just be starting up by double clicking on the icon?

Title: Re: openxcom extended installation help
Post by: ohartenstein23 on February 24, 2020, 07:30:26 pm

Right click the file in your file browser, select Properties from the drop-down. From that menu, click the box to give permission to run the file as an executable.

Title: Re: openxcom extended installation help
Post by: R1dO on February 24, 2020, 09:02:42 pm

From the description it looks like you encountered some known OS bug

If the solution from ohartenstein23 does not work, try the procedure as described by Meridian in a similar topic:
https://openxcom.org/forum/index.php/topic,7361.msg116438.html#msg116438 (https://openxcom.org/forum/index.php/topic,7361.msg116438.html#msg116438)

If that solves your problem but you still insist on starting via clicking an icon you can use my workaround as posted in that same topic:
https://openxcom.org/forum/index.php/topic,7361.msg116347.html#msg116347 (https://openxcom.org/forum/index.php/topic,7361.msg116347.html#msg116347)