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Hello I Was Trying To Setup A Headless Server For The First Time.
I Followed The Wiki But When I Try To Run A Command To The Factorio File Like This It Outputs The Following.

Command Not Found

Is it the same for --help?

Yeah its the same.

You need to change directory to where you extracted the Factorio download - if you are in that directory, something went wrong earlier.

You shouldn't need to run as root (using sudo). You should only use sudo when necessary.

i am in that directory now and when i try to run it without root it says "Permision Denied"

What file system is the game installed on?

ext4

Needing sudo sounds like the permissions for the install are all messed up. Make sure your user has read, write and execute permissions on the executable. E.g, this is how the tarball installs executable permissions look like for me:

I just did a reflash of the OS and tried again i Also checked the permisions
Still Does Not Work

0neP1us wrote: Sat Aug 13, 2022 1:11 pm I just did a reflash of the OS and tried again i Also checked the permisions
Still Does Not Work

What does "did a reflash of the OS" mean?

As the factorio user, can you share the results of:

sorry. I Mean I Reinstalled / Reset Linux And Switched to Pure Debian Instead Of Ubuntu
Here Is The Info You Requested!

Your factorio executable is missing the execute permission.
To fix:

0neP1us wrote: Sat Aug 13, 2022 1:41 pm sorry I Mean I Reinstalled /Reset Linux And Switched to Pure Debian Instead Of Ubuntu
Here Is The Info You Requested!

Well, ls shows the executable isn't executable, so "Permission denied" makes sense.

Either the permissions have been changed (eg with chmod) since you extracted the tarball, or they were not set as expected in the first place. I think it's worth understanding why because even if you fix the executable's permissions, you may have other problems.

If you haven't changed permissions since extracting the tarball, the most obvious reasons for them being incorrect are that you did something unusual to extract the tarball, or the extraction was done with an unusual umask (eg 0133).

Or... clutching at straws... maybe something strange with the mount options?

Now It Works In My Windows Subsystem For Linux (WSL) Environment I Can Do --help
But When I Move The Files Over To My Dedicated Server It Breaks Again With The Permision Thing Even After I Change The Executeable Permision

chmod +x /opt/factorio/bin/x64/factorio

I Also Tried The Mount Command

mount | grep -F "$(findmnt -no source -T /opt/factorio)"

And Got This.

(EDIT)
But I Got It Working On My WSL Instance So Its Propperly An Error By Me.

Is your server a raspberry pi, as the username suggests? In that case, it won't work because Factorio does not support ARM.

Ah Alright Im Very Sorry For Using Your Time I Should Propperly Have Asked That To Begin With!

0neP1us wrote: Sat Aug 13, 2022 2:27 pm But When I Move The Files Over To My Dedicated Server It Breaks Again With The Permision Thing Even After I Change The Executeable Permision

While (as explained by Bilka) Factorio can't run on a Raspberry Pi, for the benefit of others (and perhaps also yourself in other contexts) I guess from the above that you are copying from Windows and that is the cause of permissions being broken. This can almost certainly be avoided by copying the tarball to the Linux environment and extracting it there, which may well be faster too.