[cw-discuss] CrossOver Installation Error

[Mark Pinto]

did you sudo or su?  if you did, dont.  open up a terminal within x as
the user that you're signed into x as.  dont sudo or su, then sh
install-demo-xxxx.sh  and it should work.

On 2/1/07, Marither Anastacio <marither1 at gmail.com> wrote:
> hi!  i downloaded the crossover trial version and tried to install it in my
> ubuntu 6.10 machine.  however, this message appeared:
>
> "gedit has not been able to detect the character coding.
> Please check that you are not trying to open a binary file.
> Select a character coding from the menu and try again."
>
> probably the installed does not have 'x' flag set (execute). so the desktop
> environment tries to open it in editor.  the crossover installer package
> seems to be a self-ectracting shell archive.
>
> so from the terminal, i typed the following below:
>
> $ sh Desk....demo.6.0.0.sh              # run it using default shell
> or
> $ chmod +x Desk...demo.sh               # set execute bit
> $ ./Desk.....sh                         # run it
>
>
> yet, still it can't open the desk...demo.6.0.0.sh
>
> hope you could send the files needed provided with the clear procedure on
> how to install it.
>
> thanks,
>
> marither
>
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> discuss mailing list
> discuss at crossover.codeweavers.com
> http://crossover.codeweavers.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
>
>
>