Installing perforce visual client on linux

Question

I am from Mac background trying my hand at installing perforce client visual(P4V) on my linux box.For this I download the correct version here and untar the files.
Then I cd to the directory

~/Desktop/p4v-2012-blah-blah/bin

I also say

chmod +x p4*

After this i try running p4v (by double clicking) but I dont see anything .The file type is shown as a "text executable" but i dont know why it is not running. On mac i had done the same thing -just clicked on p4v and the client would show up(where I filled the server address and everything )But not sure what is going wrong here.Can someone give me directions?

FWIW i did check out this link and I do see the desktop (so GNOME is probably installed ?) .Hence p4v should be able to run.

Solution 1

I know we don't like link-based answers, but there is a rather complete walk-through here: http://www.perforce.com/documentation/tenminute-test-drive-linuxunix

Probably should be on Super User though.

Solution 2

You may have a 64bit Linux and tried to install a x86 P4V or vice versa, which is why the command doesn't run. Check that the OS and app types match.

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