gedit cannot open shoes2.run

Question

hello

i've just downloaded shoes but can't get them out the box.

double clicked on shoes2.run in ubuntu intrepid and gedit opened with the following message:

" Could not open the file /home/mark/Marks files/2…ng/Programming/shoes2.run using the Unicode (UTF-8) character coding.

Please check that you are not trying to open a binary file. Select a different character coding from the menu and try again. "

it offered a dropdown with 2 options and a retry button: 1. Current locale (UTF-8) 2. Western (ISO-8859-15)

Neither of them are recognised.

How do i get it running?

Thanks.

m.

Answer 1

m-

I had this same problem. try sudo chmoding the file :

sudo chmod 777 shoes2.run

then try running it as a script

./shoes2.run

that should work.

I am still trying to get shoes2 in my path so I can run it easily like the previous version (which I got through apt-get) right now I have to run it as a script each time I use it.

Good Luck!