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Gameplay => General Discussion => Topic started by: confused on January 14, 2005, 05:31:04 am

Title: Art tarball for Linux
Post by: confused on January 14, 2005, 05:31:04 am

Could a tarball of the base art be compiled and placed on the Downloads page. On a 512 Kb/s DSL connection the Updater is taking about 10 hours to download the 179 MB of files, the update file server is very slow and disconnects excessively.

Thanx

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Post by: peeg on January 14, 2005, 07:59:36 am

wget the windows-client and use its art....

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Post by: Aravi on January 14, 2005, 10:11:44 am

That\'s not exactly the most practical of solutions.

Because the installer is an executable, it is not possible to just unzip it. It must be run via Wine (If you don\'t see the dialog when running setup, set Managed=\"N\" ).

You are relying on the end-user being able to figure that out for themselves.

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Post by: peeg on January 14, 2005, 12:16:25 pm

Sure it\'s a windows-executable :)
But -come on!-, linux-gamers should know how to get those woking! Shouldn\'t they?
But there is the posibility to wget the responsity.zip (or something like that), too... its url can be found in the updaterconfig.xml.
It\'s much faster than let the updater rip down the art.

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Post by: confused on January 14, 2005, 04:14:16 pm

wget 170 files individually or groupings is going to be painfull too!

The tarball does not have to have the update content, just the bulk so that the updater has only a few files to update.

Oh, well updater is snailing along. Maybe it be finished tomorrow!

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Post by: sekhmet on January 14, 2005, 04:50:08 pm

Yeah a torrent or ftp for the art would be nice, getting tha art is really slow.

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Post by: Karosh_Steinkatz on January 14, 2005, 04:59:23 pm

The updater runs faster if you run it with -auto ;)

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Post by: confused on January 14, 2005, 05:21:34 pm

Oi! This is bad!

52 minutes to get registry and manage getting 38% of the first zip file of 33 files with a total of 120.4 MB before cutting out.

Can the dev PLEASE create an art tarball for the Linux people and place it on the Download page.

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Post by: Aravi on January 14, 2005, 05:32:30 pm

The updater is faulty, it seems to tie the download and gui refresh loops together. Move your mouse over the screen repeatedly and you\'ll see what I mean.

psupdater -auto runs much faster. No gui ;)

With respect to wgetting a list of files, create a list of all the files you need to download and

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for i in `cat filelist`; do
  wget $i
done

Neat, fast shell-fu :).

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Post by: Androgos on January 14, 2005, 06:03:37 pm

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Originally posted by Aravi
The updater is faulty, it seems to tie the download and gui refresh loops together.

No. It\'s 2 diffrent threads

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Post by: Aravi on January 14, 2005, 07:01:49 pm

Ok, however it appears that the download speeds up if you move the mouse over the screen continuously - which is where that theory comes from.

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Post by: Asraniel on January 14, 2005, 07:19:44 pm

i have the same theorie, and im more or less sure that its true, goes MUCH faster with --auto