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](http://www.perforce.com/downloads/complete_list) and untar the files.  

 Then I cd to the directory 

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> ~/Desktop/p4v-2012-blah-blah/bin
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I also say 

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> chmod +x p4\*
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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](http://www.perforce.com/perforce/doc.current/manuals/p4guide/01_install.html#1070774) link 
and I do see the desktop (so GNOME is probably installed ?) .Hence p4v should be able to run.