run game in linux

[actionM]

How do I run a game I have made in linux? I've been trying to just run the tutorials but nothing seems to work.

I tried in the terminal:

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love game.lua

{edit}I do get this when I run the above command as root.

This is LOVE 0.4.0 (Taco Beam).

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INIT love.filesystem [PhysFS]
INIT love.graphics [OpenGL/DevIL/FreeType]
INIT love.audio [SDL_mixer]
INIT love.timer [SDL]
INIT love.mouse [SDL]
INIT love.keyboard [SDL]
INIT love.physics [Box2D]
INIT love.system [Generic]
Game (/home/matt/game.lua) does not exist.
QUIT love.system [Generic]
QUIT love.physics [Box2D]
QUIT love.keyboard [SDL]
QUIT love.mouse [SDL]
QUIT love.timer [SDL]
QUIT love.audio [SDL_mixer]
QUIT love.graphics [OpenGL/DevIL/FreeType]
QUIT love.filesystem [PhysFS]

[osgeld]

1) goto the directory where the *.love file is and run love game.love
2) goto the directory where your game's main.lua file is and run love .

[actionM]

Ok, thanks alot. I'm still only able to do that as root, but I think I can fix that.

[edit] I guess I should explain how to fix that so others can see. I'm on Ubuntu/9.04 and all I had to do was create an alias in the .bashrc file located in the home directory.

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alias love='/usr/games/love'

[PauloftheWest]

I actually have the same problem (with Love 0.5.0), but to get it to work I had to do:

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 love ./ 

in the directory with main.love. While

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love main.love

would never work for me. It reports that '/home/west/tmp/main.love' DNE, but an 'ls' shows it does. Also, the alias didn't work for me because love isn't located in /usr/game/love.

O-well, at least 'love ./' works.

~PauloftheWest