Running on Ubuntu..or not?

[Shirilak]

Alright i got it installed and running. I get to the character select screen after creating her. It makes it to the loading screen nicely. Then as it looks like im about 100% loaded into the game it closes and reopens the news feed.

[LigH]

Yes, it runs well under Ubuntu 10, 11, and 12 - 32 bit and 64 bit, as far as I know. Installation in a personal folder like $HOME/PlaneShift/ is recommended. System-wide installations may cause issues with access rights for personal game settings (ownership of $HOME/.PlaneShift/ - note the leading dot).

Under Linux, you are lucky that you are able to report console output easier. Try to run ./psclient from a bash and see if any fatal errors are reported. Check the topics of the PlaneShift related IRC channels on FreeNode, they may have URLs to common issue threads. One necessary prerequisite is enabling OpenAL audio in pslaunch and installing OpenAL libraries.

[Korumak]

With Ubuntu 64 bit flavors, both 11.10, 12.04 LTS work just fine.
However...
Make sure permissions on pslaunch.bin and psclient.bin allow read & write, and executing.  Some times an update/install does flip the permissions, and you get that type of error.

Also note you don't have to put it under home.  If you run " sudo ./PlaneShift-v0.5.9.1-x64.run" you can drop it into /opt just fine. (tested to work with 12.04)

I also didn't mess with anything "OpenAL" and I believe its included in the Linux binaries now.

[lehjr]

The only issue I had with a global install (/opt) in Ubuntu 12.04 was that the updates will sometimes change the permissions of the files. However, it's not hard to fix.