title: Installing perforce visual client on linux
body: <p>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  <a href="http://www.perforce.com/downloads/complete_list" rel="nofollow">here</a> and untar the files.<br>
   Then I cd to the directory </p>
  
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    <p>~/Desktop/p4v-2012-blah-blah/bin</p>
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  <p>I also say </p>
  
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    <p>chmod +x p4*</p>
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  <p>After this i try running p4v (by double clicking) but I dont see anything .The file type is shown as a <strong>"text executable"</strong> 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?</p>
  
  <p>FWIW i did check out <a href="http://www.perforce.com/perforce/doc.current/manuals/p4guide/01_install.html#1070774" rel="nofollow">this</a> link 
  and I do see the desktop (so GNOME is probably installed ?) .Hence p4v should be able to run.</p>