The easiest, most distro/DE independent way is to launch a terminal in that directory, and run the command
./Rogue-Like.sh. If there are any files that need to be made executable, do chmod +x <filename>, no need for sudo. Though everything should already be set up with the correct permissions.I was leaning more towards, opening the directory up in a file manager and double click on the .sh file. Hence the screenshot and not a set of instructions.
And that's what I was afraid of. Which is why I went as simplest as I know how. If you're lost as to the instructions we have given, I suggest you learn/look up how to run/start scripts and/or executable files within linux. Once you know how to do that, come back here.
When he clicks on the .sh file in file-explorer, his text editor will probably open and display the script (as in most cases).
#!/bin/sh
Yes, and? Could you finally run it?
That doesn't work. Please do yourself a favor and study how you open/execute scripts within linux. Ask google, visit the homepage of your distro and so on.
cd /home/<your username>/downloads
chmod +x Rogue-Like.sh
./Rogue-Like.shThe last 3 fresh linux distro installs I did defaults .sh in the file manager to asking if the user wanted to execute or execute in a terminal. Those distros were Linux Mint, Garuda and Devuan (non-systemd debian). In order for him to have changed that behavior, he would have had to change the default behavior, which is more complex than either of the answers given to him. The occam's razor is that he doesn't know how to use his own computer as this action is no different than on a mac computer or a windows. Hence why my answer was "learn how to use your computer". I wasn't saying to be flippant (I don't remember the last time I said anything to be flippant.). I was sincerely and neutrally saying that. Again, this is also why I did a screenshot. Giving someone like this too much info will just confuse them as they'll just try random commands, not understanding why they're doing it, and hoping it works.
I haven't used Linux for quite some time, most recently a Backtrack version to check a network for vulnerabilities (it was based on Debian at the time), and there, the system text editor came up when you clicked on it in the file explorer. No offense, I didn't mean to attack or insult you, I just found your comment funny. Unfortunately, it's probably not funny for the guy mentioned above, who really should learn the basics first before trying to do anything with Linux. It's also amazing that he was able to unzip/untar the game.
No worries. I'm not offended. I was just explaining. I did more than a decade of tech support, in person and over the phone, before becoming a programmer. I have a pretty good idea of how most people, especially in the US, think about tech.
Yeah, that's one of my first worries, which is why I posted just the .sh and nothing else. If he was like "I don't see that", then I would have had some clue where he's starting from. But "I don't understand" literally means he doesn't understand. But yeah, I get it. To a lot of people, me posting just a screenshot of one file looks/sounds funny. But it's not the first time I've had to do that to get people to understand. Pretty sure I once had to make a screenshot of something to set as a desktop background for them remember what to click on to "start the internet".
Do you remember what desktop environment it was? Because I know Gnome, cinnamon, xfce, mate, lxde, lxqt and KDE doesn't (unless the last 4 changed something in the last 10 years).
That would make sense. Debian defaults to gnome. But the last time I used it (about ten years ago), the file manager still asked you to run .sh files. Maybe they changed, who knows.