can't get game running on PCLOS installed with synaptic

[nerdful1]

Hello I have tried some time searching and googling, but I cant get the game running.
In a terminal window, I type planeshift-setup and setup appears ok. made different changes, resolution etc, and set back to the defaults after unable to launch from setup window. Same if I try to launch from the terminal.
ERROR: in the terminal window I get this when trying to launch:
 Could not find file: /paws/temp_skin/skin.xml
/usr/games//planeshift-setup: Line 14: 3791 segmentation fault  ./pssetup

1. I completely removed and reinstalled via synaptic.
2. I did not do updates after re-installing as I read not to use the updater for now.
3. My 3d graphics with my Beryl 3D desktop works fine.
4 I shut off Beryl with no help.
5. I have 64M DDR on card, and card has up to 256M with system memory.
6. Runnung PCLinuxOS TR3 with everthing up to date.
7. Looks like synaptic loaded all the required crystal dependancies etc.
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[bilbous]

Having googled pclinuxos I see that it is (or was) a livecd type distribution based on mandriva. Is it now installed on the hard drive? I use Mandriva myself and the package someone made for it was flawed and out of date (might be better now). I recommend you do not use synaptic (that is the apt gui utility right?) to install it, rather download the .bin from the PS site and run it. If you are running from the livecd you might still be able to install the game to the internal hard drive or even a usb drive but I know little about that.

Hope this helps.

Edit: my extraneous problems are not yours. the above is good.

[nerdful1]

Thanks bilbous,
The repository has the latest planeshift distro, besides all the latest dependancies.
I believe most everyone soon installs to HD soon after trying the live cd. It is the fastest and most stable OS I ever used, and would have installed it earlier if I hadn't been distracted by running Vista beta.
Late last night, one of the PCLOS support team confirmed my problem on his machine and are looking into it. The site is down due to a database overload caused by the sudden popularity.

The reason I like PCLOS is because of the synaptic system, which has been flawless except in the games I wanted to try.
If I get a chance, I'll try a manual install of planeshift with a usb HD and a sacrificial copy of PCLOS.
All our programs on the repository are pre-screened to work with PCLOS, and I don't want to cause problems in the future with manual installs.

[bilbous]

Fair enough, I personally have very little problem with the default binary install, it installs into /opt, puts a few executables in /usr/bin if enabled globally and pretty much interferes with nothing else. It can be removed by deleting the folder, and the 3 executable scripts planeshift* planeshift-setup*  & planeshift-updater* in /usr/bin.