Afew install questions (games)

[electroconvulsi]

I have downloaded some games and have no idea how to install them
1. Americas Army (im not really that into it but want at least one decent 1st person shooter happening) I downloaded a file called armyops250-linux.run and it seems to be a 700mb shell script when I try to open it directly it opens in gedit and crashes it and when i try to execute it from the terminal I get the error message

Permission Denied

even though I have read write access to the file. Id like to know how to get this game going, does anyone know?

2. openmortal: This game has all its dependencies satisfied. However when I try to open it there is no reaction and from the terminal I get

]# openmortal
openmortal: error while loading shared libraries: libperl.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

I have checked if libperl.so exists

locate libperl.so
/usr/lib/perl5/5.8.5/i386-linux-thread-multi/CORE/libperl.so
/usr/lib/perl5/5.8.6/i386-linux-thread-multi/CORE/libperl.so
/usr/lib/perl5/5.8.7/i386-linux-thread-multi/CORE/libperl.so
/usr/lib/perl5/5.8.8/i386-linux-thread-multi/CORE/libperl.so

so I guess I have to make a link to the latest libperl.so to somewhere in the openmortal directory (forgive me if im wrong). Does anyone know how to achieve this?

3. Miniracer: this RPM says that libslang is needed to install though it is already on my system. It also says it needs libvorbisfile.so.0 which isnt however I have used the locate command to find libvorbisfile.so.3
and /libvorbisfile.so.3.1.1. Can anyone help with that as well?

[BobX]

open terminal

type:

su - (S U , then a space, and then a minus sign)
then press enter
then enter your root passwd
then goto where the game is,
and type: sh ./game_installer_proggy.run

better to run these games as root I have found.
eemy territory works like a charm, dunno about the rest.

[electroconvulsi]

Thanks BobX, those instructions werent available anywhere else. This game runs smoother than Star Wars Battlefront on Windows on the same machine. Such a pity more game manufacturers wont port their games to linux which is overall a more stable environment.

[electroconvulsi]

I have openmortal running by creating a dynamic link to libperl.so in /usr/lib

ln -s /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.8/i386-linux-thread-multi/CORE/libperl.so /usr/lib/

but still havent managed to connect to the server properly.
I have gotten miniracer to install but the game will not run. Here is the error message sighting the good old segfault (my favourite bug)

$ miniracer
Added packfile ./data/pak0.pak (133 files)
Console initialized.
PackFile: ./data/pak0.pak : textures/themes.lst
PackFile: ./data/pak0.pak : models/cars.lst
/usr/bin/miniracer: line 38:  4418 Segmentation fault      ./engine.glx $*

Can anyone help me sort that out?