Hi
I have Linux mint on my laptop and I am a bit of a dofus when it comes to installing any game that doesn't come as a deb-file. The Flatout games are only available as gz-files. What should I do with them to install the games?

right click -> exctract here

then wait for it to be ready, copy it wherever you want your game be and start it with start.sh file from the folder you extracted

When I try to open the gz file I get a new archive which my archive manager can't open for some reason... I guess there's a risk of a corrupt download...

sadly i deleted my tar.gz file. otherwise i could have checked the md5sum of it to see if it matches for you
it is possible that its corrupt yeah.

Thanks a lot! It was the tar thing I was missing. Apparently if you open a gz file in the archive manager it doesn't actually let you see the correct contents... So I was missing the command line :-)

Hi,

I tryed to use the solution and this is what my terminal says

/Flatout/FlatOut 2$ ./start.sh
bash: ./start.sh: Keine Berechtigung

"Keine Berechtigung" means no authority

/Flatout/FlatOut 2$ sudo ./start.sh
[sudo] password for deropo:
sudo: ./start.sh: Kommando nicht gefunden

"Kommando nicht gefunden" means command not found

Could please somebody help me? Or should I better go with this problem to a ubuntu forum?

Looks more like he's missing the "sudo" command.

Edit: deropo, which distribution do you use?

Really shouldn't be using sudo for running games though. This is an odd one, maybe the file permissions are wrong?

Probably,
deropo:
check the file permissions, either in your graphical filemanager or on the console with
"ls -l $path"
(als l are small Ls)
should be something like this:

$ ls -l
insgesamt 24
drwxrwxr-x. 2 you you 4096 23. Jul 13:06 docs
drwxrwxr-x. 4 you you 4096 28. Jul 19:53 prefix
-rwxrwxr-x. 1 you you 1000 28. Jul 19:23 start.sh
drwxrwxr-x. 2 you you 4096 23. Jul 13:06 support
drwxrwxr-x. 6 you you 4096 23. Jul 13:06 wine_standalone

(I changed my username with "you")