PS3 Linux problems

[cotton31]

I want to make clear from the start that i am totally new to Linux. Sorry if some of my questions seem unclear, but please try to help me.

Firstly, I have installed YDL on my PS3 and after getting used to it i quite like it. However, I have a couple of problems:

1) A program I have downloaded comes as a .tar.bz2 file. Terminal would not let me extract it (it said the file did not exist, although I may have been doing it wrong) so I extracted it by right clicking and choosing extract here. I assume this is the same. It then gave me a directory with some folders and files in. One of these was the executable file according to the .pdf file it came with. However, nothing happened when I double clicked on the file. Have I done something wrong?

2) I am trying to get Linux to recognise the PS3 game controller through bluetooth as described here:http://www.pabr.org/sixlinux/sixlinux.en.html

I have no idea how to apply the patches it is providing, could someone point me in the right direction?

Thanks

 

[BillytheImpaler]

As far as the extracted file is concerned I suspect you were either using the wrong command or perhaps forgetting that the command line is case sensitive. To execute the executable use the cd command to change to the directory you desire then run
./filename
to execute it where filename is the name of the file you wish to execute.

 

[cotton31]

Thanks Billy, can anyone help me with the other problem?