Re: OT: Linux
 

Just untar it over the directory. Despite tar's archaic options, I prefer doing this from a command line, so something like this should do the trick:
<font class="small">Code:</font><hr /><pre>su -
tar -zxvf /path/to/patch/dompatch212_linux_x86.tgz /usr/local/games/dominions2</pre><hr />
Sorry about the star (No, it wasn't me, honost!)

Re: OT: Linux
 

"overriding" files in a linux command line is done by either copying or moving the source file to the target file.

So either

1)

<font class="small">Code:</font><hr /><pre>mv /home/lukeskywalker/myfile /whereeveryouwantthefile/myfile</pre><hr />

or

2)

<font class="small">Code:</font><hr /><pre>cp /home/lukeskywalker/myfile /whereeveryouwantthefile/myfile</pre><hr />

Option 1 would remove the source file whereas 2 would keep it.


EDIT: Looks like Esben beat me to it http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif - and yes Esbens Version is probably the easiest in this particular situation.

Re: OT: Linux
 

My dom2 game installed in
/usr/games/dominions/

and it put the dom2 executable in
/usr/local/bin/

So I didnt need a path change. Seemed to work fine that way. Of course it was an system wide install done as root, not a user install on someone elses machine (which is possible but ends up in a different layout)

Re: OT: Linux
 

You mean /usr/local/games/dominions2/, right? (No point in confusing the newbies http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif ) Installing the binary under /usr/local/ and the game itself under /usr/ makes no sense in any case.