that brings an even more odd error when i try using it as either my user account (user) or as root:
[user@localhost secondlife-1.23.5.136262]$ ./secondlife
64-bit Linux detected: Disabling GStreamer (streaming video and music) by default; edit ./secondlife to re-enable.
Running from /opt/SecondLife-i686-1.23.5.136262
Warning: Did not register secondlife:// handler with KDE: Directory /home/user/.kde/share/services does not exist.
bin/do-not-directly-run-secondlife-bin: error while loading shared libraries: libjpeg.so.62: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
*** Bad shutdown. ***
You are running the Second Life Viewer on a x86_64 platform. The
most common problems when launching the Viewer (particularly
'bin/do-not-directly-run-secondlife-bin: not found' and 'error while
loading shared libraries') may be solved by installing your Linux
distribution's 32-bit compatibility packages.
For example, on Ubuntu and other Debian-based Linuxes you might run:
$ sudo apt-get install ia32-libs ia32-libs-gtk ia32-libs-kde ia32-libs-sdl
*******************************************************
This is a BETA release of the Second Life linux client.
Thank you for testing!
Please see README-linux.txt before reporting problems.
[user@localhost secondlife-1.23.5.136262]$ su
Password:
[root@localhost secondlife-1.23.5.136262]# ./secondlife
64-bit Linux detected: Disabling GStreamer (streaming video and music) by default; edit ./secondlife to re-enable.
Running from /opt/SecondLife-i686-1.23.5.136262
Error setting value: Failed to contact configuration server; some possible causes are that you need to enable TCP/IP networking for ORBit, or you have stale NFS locks due to a system crash. See http://projects.gnome.org/gconf/ for information. (Details — 1: Failed to get connection to session: Did not receive a reply. Possible causes include: the remote application did not send a reply, the message bus security policy blocked the reply, the reply timeout expired, or the network connection was broken.)
Warning: Did not register secondlife:// handler with GNOME: gconftool-2 failed.
Warning: Did not register secondlife:// handler with KDE: Directory /root/.kde/share/services does not exist.
bin/do-not-directly-run-secondlife-bin: error while loading shared libraries: libjpeg.so.62: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
*** Bad shutdown. ***
You are running the Second Life Viewer on a x86_64 platform. The
most common problems when launching the Viewer (particularly
'bin/do-not-directly-run-secondlife-bin: not found' and 'error while
loading shared libraries') may be solved by installing your Linux
distribution's 32-bit compatibility packages.
For example, on Ubuntu and other Debian-based Linuxes you might run:
$ sudo apt-get install ia32-libs ia32-libs-gtk ia32-libs-kde ia32-libs-sdl
*******************************************************
This is a BETA release of the Second Life linux client.
Thank you for testing!
Please see README-linux.txt before reporting problems.
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Please note that i have secondlife and so on installed in /opt/, as that is where i put most of my optional, non-bundled linux software, like Adobe Reader, Flock, Firefox, and so on... does it need to be in a different location? i have it there so my user accounts can access it.. i'll move it to /home/user/bin/ if needed... though it should have worked when i ran it as root, as well.. yet it did not, so i doubt it's an access/permissions issue, since root is the owner of the folder.
I have the latest version of Flash Player (libflashplayer.so, version 10.2), and Java (1.6.0 update 24). As for quicktime... i'm on linux... i don't think there's a linux version of quicktime available...