Desperate for help (linux install)

[Molts]

So a few days ago I got my invite to the alpha having been eagerly awaiting the event. I have been wanting something like this for years, and I am gratful for the opportunity to use it in its early stages

Unfortunately, I cannot for the life of me get past the very first step, installation.

I run a few years old laptop, 64 bit intell core 2 duo, running linux mint LMDE cinnamon and am not very well versed in linux and the command line, but I am usually very good and finding out the answers to a problem on the internet without the need to directly ask. having searched for nearly 5 hours, and having absolutely no success. I just want to install Sync, and the user guide only says to run it in the terminal, I have tried:

extracting the .tar.gz then running the .bin in the command line

running the .tar.gz directly

opening the .bin in a text editor

zxf /file/directory/of/btsync

make /file/directory/of/btsync

root kill pid, then running it in root

What am I missing? No matter my combination of codes, nothing comes up in the command line as an error, and nothing shows up on my desktop. I really don't want to have to run it on a VM because of incompitence.

[Furry_Fighter_20X66]

you can run the SyncApp with the --no-daemon option (Double check that as I am going from memory.) THis will cause it to run and log all output to the console.

Once it is running, open a web browser and enter "http://localhost:8888"

Also, did you make the SyncApp program an executable? (chmod +x )

[drax]

Here's what I did to get it running. I'm on a Centos box running an x86 64 bit kernel.

BTW, I did all the following as root.

I downloaded the i386(64 bit) client directly from the link in the welcome email, which gave me a file btsync_x64.tar.gz

Then ran

tar xvfz btsync_x64.tar.gz

Which gave me an executable file called btsync

I then ran

./btsync

Checked to see if it was running and listening on the correct port

[root@ tmp]# ps -efa | grep btsync
root	 2391	 1 1 15:32 ?	 00:00:07 ./btsync
root	 3853 27981 0 15:42 pts/2 00:00:00 grep btsync
[root@ tmp]# netstat -anlp | grep 8888
tcp	 0	 0 0.0.0.0:8888			 0.0.0.0:*				 LISTEN	 2391/./btsync
tcp	 0	 0 127.0.0.1:8888			 127.0.0.1:35742			 ESTABLISHED 2391/./btsync

I then pointed a browser at it. I ran firefox on the linux box and entered http://localhost:8888 in the address bar.

That's it job done

From there you're interfacing with the GUI and it's very intuitive from there.

[Molts]

I knew it was something simple, that worked perfectly thank you very much!

[knireis]

I knew it was something simple, that worked perfectly thank you very much!

i'm on LMDE as well and you can easily make a new startup item, so btsync starts when you start your pc