[Opensim-users] Hippo viewer in Linux won't install

[Ethan Grammatikidis]

On Thu, 14 May 2009 11:21:05 -0600
John Batt <jbatt at bresnan.net> wrote:

> I have d/led the newest Linux version of Hippo Viewer 0.5.1 .  When I 
> open the zip file I'm left with an executable that I can not run.  When 
> I click on the executable I'm asked what program I want to use to open 
> the file.  Just what am I doing wrong?The earlier versions installed and 
> ran just fine.  The only thing in the zip file is the executable.  I'm 
> using Kubuntu 9.04.

It's possible the executable may be missing exectuable permission. I used plain old command-line unzip and had no trouble, but it's possible whatever you used to unzip it stripped the executable permission. You should be able to add it back quite easily from whatever you use to manage files.

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Ethan Grammatikidis