Linux installer wishlist.

[Platyna]

Hmm, never heard about anything like that being planned.


Regards.

[Induane]

lol I gave him that updater - someone on a dev channel sent it to me.  Val\'s updater (even the auto one) took ages, as it did some weird genmesh move EVERY time.  This updater automatically fixed this though I don\'t know how.  Its nothing official, in fact someone made it just for the heck of it I think.  Its java based, so it is more easily cross platform.  That person is going to make a pssetup program in java too, so that the Mac OSX guys can have one.  BUt its all just rumor, and me haning out in dev channels I probabily don\'t belong in.

[Dalik]

I am getting back into using linux and I consider myself a below average user, kinda relearning stuff as I go.  

I am using Gentoo linux and I came across PS and was very excited to see what an open source project can do compared to the big boys.  

To get to the point..  I installed PS using portage and everything went fine, then I did an update(which took a while since my dl speed is 25k/sec, when I started the game(after the setup was ran) I typed in my uname/pass and I got an error saying my versions didnt match the server, and I looked around the PS site and saw 3.11 was ready for testing on linux systems, so I downloaded the patch and ran it, and that installed alright.  I typed in the location to my installation directory and the install did its thing.   After the install the updater ran(which is still currently doing) and I noticed that files that it was patching where the same size as the update I did about 20min before.  My concern is, does the updater program check if it really needs to update/replace a file or does it just download all the files again?  

My concern is here in Australia we have bandwidth limits and I dont want to update the game at a hit of 500 megs a go.  

I would like to see a overall progress on the updater in the Terminal version if possible.  

Cant wait to play PS.

[Induane]

Agreed, a nice progress bar helps with sanity for some reason. If I can ever figure out how to use autopackage I\'ll see how hard it would be to put an autopackage together.

[Hirato]

in version 3.009 i could not see the oja road in my linux client.
but i did not check in 3.01 since i was so appalled that openal sound does not work anymore.
i did to have time to check yet but i hope this error has been fixed so I\'m just double checking

my Linux OS is mandriva (mandrake) 10 and every time i launch PS in Linux i get a message in yellow on the top of the splash screen saying more or less the following that some glx thing wont work with an open X server

[Karosh_Steinkatz]

Originally posted by lanser

Originally posted by Induane
 - in the spirit of Karosh\'s linux installer which was loki based.

Hope I\'m not putting my excessively large foot in my uncontrollable mouth but I have been M.I.A. for 5-6 months, but what did  happen to Karosh and his installer IIRC he was getting snowed under with 007

Lediel

Well, some things happened back then. My available time began to drop, I got fed up with some things and while being on  vacation from PS which was planned to be just 1-2 weeks I decided to take a longer one. Rest assured that I\'m back now, although I\'m not responsible for the installer anymore. But I will still continue to help as much as I can and want to

[Glendyl Aers]

. . . check this installer out.

http://www.planeshift3d.com/wbboard/thread.php?boardid=41&threadid=19389&page=1#2

Works a treat!

Thanks Xordan for such a fine piece of work.

Cheers folks.

[lanser]

Hi Karosh,

Just a public \"thank you\" if it hadn\'t been for your installer I would have given up trying to join Planeshift back in January (mainly because I just couldn\'t get it to compile), and would have missed this wonderful experience and all the new friends.

so a big
 [size=16] THANK YOU[/size]


regards

was Ledidel now Hokinon

[Davethewave]

I download PlaneShift (245MB) and tried to install, but it doesn\'t know how to install it with YaST and when I import it in YaST it says Error loading package list from /home/david/Desktop/PlaneShift_CBV0.3.011.linux.x86-2.run so I looked around on this site, and I searched the keyword Install and Installation to find out how to install and I saw there is an installer so I download that (15MB) but it\'s a bin file and I don\'t know how to work those either can someone point me to the install directions I can\'t find them. Thanks!

[lanser]

You need the installer and patch from this thread adn follow the instructions Installer Releases

[Davethewave]

nevermind! I guessed how to install it and it is working, I think... I tried su, and sudo neither worked so I tried sh PlaneShift....etc and it started installing, I just didn\'t know the sh part.

:edit:
It installed, then said Your updater version is older than the server\'s..
Updating halted. Then I tried to play it and it said \"the server is not running or is not reachable....\" so I guess it\'s broken I have to go now though I will mess with it later this is the furthest I\'ve gotten yet.