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Support => Linux Specific Issues => Topic started by: Ekkume on January 07, 2006, 08:25:36 am

Title: Linux binaries waste of download bandwidth?
Post by: Ekkume on January 07, 2006, 08:25:36 am

I downloaded it last night, ran it this morning, and it doesn\'t even contain everything I need. It is missing some dialog program, but I didn\'t find any seperate download for a dialog program.

I AM NOT GOING TO INSTALL WINDOWS in order to be able to play this game.

Also SourceForge didn\'t offer any downloads there as well.

I remember when I had Mandrake, there was even a Planeshift rpm in the repository that worked.

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Post by: Bereror on January 07, 2006, 09:14:24 am

Dialog is a system tool used to show dialog boxes from the shell and is not part of Planeshift. I don\'t know your distro, so I cannot give you recommendations, how to install it, but you should have some kind of a package handler that most likely includes it.

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Post by: Xordan on January 07, 2006, 02:14:07 pm

Yeah I know, the installer on the site sucks. I\'ll release a new full package with the next update which will have a much better installer.

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Post by: Palin.Majere on January 07, 2006, 08:41:19 pm

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Originally posted by Xordan
Yeah I know, the installer on the site sucks. I\'ll release a new full package with the next update which will have a much better installer.

I think it\'s a good idea. I\'m just a newbie in the game but i\'ve my share of experience with linux and still installing and putting the beast to run was a difficult task...

The installer needs to do some checking for what i\'m reading (on my box it did just fine).

If you think it\'s worth i can help making a rpm for the major distro out there (i\'m using mandriva but unless you are checking dependencies very tightly rpms are quite the same all around).

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Post by: Thoronador on January 07, 2006, 08:48:35 pm

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Originally posted by Ekkume
I downloaded it last night, ran it this morning, and it doesn\'t even contain everything I need. It is missing some dialog program, but I didn\'t find any seperate download for a dialog program.

Well, as already said, dialog is part of most Linux distributions and can be installed with the package manager (rpm, apt/ synaptic,...). However, the name of the package may vary, depending on what distro you run. Sometimes it\'s called \"cdialog\" or \"xdialog\" instead of just \"dialog\".

Title: I got that part already.
Post by: Ekkume on January 07, 2006, 11:19:14 pm

Now I just installed the missing libsmpeg0c2 lib.

Now I just updated the updater and now I can\'t read it or see my mouse cursor when it is over the window.

I am not giving up yet, but this sure is one big mess. I will be glad to get it working and be in a mmorg again. I am running Kubuntu Breezy with the 2.6.14.5 kernel. (It was manually updated because of IDE/ATA problems)

Ekkume

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Post by: Ayagama on January 08, 2006, 12:24:13 am

I\'m using Kubuntu.  Downloaded the binaries, installed dialog via adept, got the R2 and R4 updates and installed them as per instructions, ran ./updater, allowed it to update and then launched the game.  It all works very well.

Maybe you are missing something along the way. The R2 and R4 thingoes?

http://www.planeshift3d.com/wbboard/thread.php?threadid=19389&boardid=41&styleid=4&sid=1667f88c61420532c97c8e5c4e4847ec

Good luck :)