Etracer question...

newbie here…loving suse…but a question on package management…

I have to run the etracer command in a shell to launch the program “extreme tux racer” for my son. it does not show up in a menu anywhere.

how do i create a shortcut either on desktop or in the game menu?

thanks.

Go to the openSUSE software search and search for “tuxracer”. You can do a 1-Click install from there.
Software.openSUSE.org

if you install it from the openSUSE repos, using YaST or Zypper it
will automatically be added to your menu…

see, it sounds like you are using that oh-so-last-century way of
installing new applications (the Redmond way: go somewhere, download
something, click click click…) don’t do that because you don’t know
who out there you can trust…

stick to the repos until you are more familiar with it…

read: http://en.opensuse.org/Concepts
especially section 2…

and, there is a TON of documentation on how to use YaST…how to use
zypper…etc etc etc…

that stuff you heard about how hard it is to compile your own…that
is all FUD…


palladium

I just installed etracer on my 64-bit machine using zypper and there is no entry in the kickoff menu for this game. You can add it to the games section by right clicking on the kickoff icon and selecting menu editor.

You can also type etracer into the search field of the kickoff menu and launch the game from there.