Read here if your updater is not working or you are missing openal32.dll

[Caarrie]

These Directions are for the LAST release 0.4.01 NOT what is now available on the download page 0.4.02, Current Release for PlaneShift is 0.4.03 the following is here to help others if they have issues in the future.
WINDOWS
1. install  Planeshift like any other program
1.a if on Vista do _not_ install in program files folder
2. in windows explorer find the folder you just installed ps in
3. right click on updaterinfo.xml
4. go to open with
5. open with "wordpad"
6. find the line that reads

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<config active="false">to

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<config active="true"> then save the file
7. run the updater, it may take a few times to update the full client, the updater at this time has no gui.
8. run psclient and verify you can log into the game, if this fails try step 7 again

if you have issues with starting the game after running the updater from the cmd line [start run cmd]

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"C:\your\path\to\where\ps\is\installed\psupdater.exe" -repair
LINUX
1. install PlaneShift like any other program with an installer
2. make sure premissions are set correctly
3. find the file updaterinfo.xml in your ps folder
4. open that file with any text editer
5. find the line that reads

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<config active="false">to

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<config active="true"> then save the file
6. run the updater, it may take a few times to update the full client, the updater at this time has no gui you can run it in console/terminal to view the status
7. run psclient and verify you can log into the game, if this fails try step 6 again

You may need to be root to edit the file if you did not set your permissions correctly

if you have issues with starting the game after running the updater from terminal/console

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./psupdater -repair

MAC OSX

1. run the installer to install PlaneShift
2. find the folder /Applications/PlaneShift in finder
3. Right click [control click] on the file updaterinfo.xml and go to "open with" open the file with "textedit"
4. find the line that reads

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<config active="false">to

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<config active="true"> then save the file
5. if you have 10.4 or 10.5 download http://www.psmirror.org/repo/psupdatermacosx.zip , unzip put the updater in your ps folder and REPLACE the one that is there already.
if you are have 10.3.9 download http://www.psmirror.org/repo/psupdatermacosx1039.zip , unzip put the updater in your ps folder and REPLACE the one that is there already.
6. run the updater, it does _not_ have a gui so you will see it bounce in the dock a few times as it updates, to track the progress you can open console and see what it is doing
7. Run your psclient and verify that it will let you ingame, if it does not due to not being updated repeat step 6 till it will let you in.

if you have issues with starting the game after running the updater from terminal
start the terminal app from your Applications/utilities folder

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cd /Applications/PlaneShift
./psupdater.app/Contents/MacOS/psupdater_static -repair


[Caarrie]

This post should not be needed anymore due to a fixed installer, if there are still issues please do the following to fix the issue

If you have downloaded the .4.02 client and still cant find the openal32.dll you can download it from
http://www.psmirror.org/repo/backup/win32/OpenAL32.dll
one of the official ps updater repro's. We have NO fix for this apparent issue at this time.


Official testers have been asked and they had no issue with this, so at this time we do not know what the cause is or the fix in the installer.

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ALL windows users READ THIS:

if you have downloaded the 0.4.02 client and cant launch the client due to missing OpenAL32.dll you NEED to run the updater in CheckIntegrity mode to get this file as it is missing from the installer

to do this open a command prompt cmd.exe

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"C:\your\path\to\where\ps\is\installed\psupdater.exe" -repair

This or the above download will add the needed dll to your install, running the normal updater will NOT install this dll for you.

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