Newbie guide to installation on Ubuntu.

[brokenknee]

 
Caarrie, Thanks for the quick response. Looks like it was a bad download. MD5sum on my second download matched the one listed on the link you posted. This one executed as it should have. Installer is working. You rock! Looking forward to contributing whatever I can to the PS Project. FYI, all of the links on the thread you posted seem dead. Maybe xordan is down?

Everyone Else having Segmentation Faults with 0.4.03x86: Confirm md5sum on Installer. Do this by running the program "md5sum [file-to-test]" in terminal. md5sum is part of "The GNU core utilities" and looks like this on Ubuntu 8.04:

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crimzon@blaqbox:~/downloads$ md5sum Plane*
bfa294eed54d477dff65739bc4b45349  PlaneShift-v0.4.03-x86.bin

~brokenknee

[MendedSlinkyh]

Ok, I've run the installer and it seemed to work fine. I can run ./pssetup and ./psupdate just fine.  I run into problems when I run ./psclient Well here's the output.

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Your configuration files are in... /home/trent/.PlaneShift
DEBUG: Initializing OpenAL sound system
DEBUG: Retrieving available devices.
DEBUG: Default OpenAL device: '((sampling-rate 44100) (device '(native))
DEBUG: No device specified
DEBUG: Falling back on default device
DEBUG: Can't retrieve attributes size: OpenAL error ALC_INVALID_DEVICE
X Error of failed request:  BadValue (integer parameter out of range for operation)
  Major opcode of failed request:  130 (XFree86-VidModeExtension)
  Minor opcode of failed request:  10 (XF86VidModeSwitchToMode)
  Value in failed request:  0x3c00002
  Serial number of failed request:  401
  Current serial number in output stream:  405
Please help me.

Ubuntu Jaunty 9.04 64 bit.
Dell Inspiron E1505
Intel® Core 2 Duo processor T7200 (4MB Cache/2.00GHz/667MHz FSB)
2GB Shared Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM at 533MHz, 2 DIMM
256MB NVIDIA® GeForce® Go 7300 TurboCache

*EDIT*
Ok, I've figured out that by changing the options to windowed mode lets me play the game. However, I don't want to play in windowed. I would prefer full screen. Also, the options that I change in ./pssetup don't seem to affect the game. I had to manually edit the config file. So, how do I commence to play this in fullscreen?

[weltall]

it's probably some issue in your config which doesn't allow what you are requesting. anyway there is a way. set in pssetup the resolution of your screen go in system preferences keyboard shortcuts and set toggle full screen mode to something and use that on the window you will get a full screen mode which is better than x full screen mode (which essentially is crap as it doesn't allow dual monitor use and alt tabbing out)

[aminrangwaedanea]

Has anyone ever had a problem typing in the sudu password?  I try to type it in but nothing shows up. I can still hit enter but I can't seem to be able to hit any numbers or letters. Please help! Thank you.


anna@anna:~$ sudo chmod a+rx /usr/share/applications/planeshift*.desktop
[sudo] password for anna:


right there is when i'll try typing forever but nothing shows up

[Rigwyn]

The password should not get displayed on the screen as you type.

Does it work if you just type it in and hit enter ?

[aminrangwaedanea]

thanks for replying

after i hit enter it just says sorry, please try again. Do you know if it's possible to get rid of all passwords? Maybe that would work??

[Maisent]

help, mine says 2.6.24-24-generic
when io do the uname -r command

[weltall]

you have to put the password of your account

[akildam]

great guide man if only all linux guides were as thorough as yours

[ketchua]

I have a really weird problem. There is no updater binary in the game folder. There's a log file, but no binary. Installation went through fine.

[Aiwendil]

Did you install the 0.5 testing version? That one doesn't come with an updater anymore...pslauncher does the updates now.

[ketchua]

Yeah, 0.5.... And I've tried the launcher, but it says:

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WARNING: could not load plugin 'crystalspace.window.x'
Could not create an instance of crystalspace.window.x!
WARNING: failed to initialize plugin 'crystalspace.graphics2d.glx'
Error loading Graphics2D plugin.
WARNING: failed to initialize plugin 'crystalspace.graphics3d.opengl'
WARNING: No shader plugins found!
WARNING: could not load plugin 'crystalspace.window.x'
Could not create an instance of crystalspace.window.x!
WARNING: failed to initialize plugin 'crystalspace.graphics2d.glx'
Error loading Graphics2D plugin.
WARNING: failed to initialize plugin 'crystalspace.graphics3d.opengl'
No 3D driver!
WARNING: could not load plugin 'crystalspace.level.loader'
WARNING: could not load plugin 'crystalspace.window.x'
Could not create an instance of crystalspace.window.x!
WARNING: failed to initialize plugin 'crystalspace.graphics2d.glx'
Error loading Graphics2D plugin.
WARNING: failed to initialize plugin 'crystalspace.graphics3d.opengl'
WARNING: could not load plugin 'crystalspace.level.loader'
iGraphics3D failed to Init!
Segmentation fault


[elxtor]

I downloaded both types to see if either would work when I checked if I had 64 or 32, mine said general. I used every type of command that was listed and none of them worked all I got no file directory known. I have no clue why it is not installing unless I cant install it.

[ing.gonzo]

Yeah, 0.5.... And I've tried the launcher, but it says:

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WARNING: could not load plugin 'crystalspace.window.x'
Could not create an instance of crystalspace.window.x!
WARNING: failed to initialize plugin 'crystalspace.graphics2d.glx'
Error loading Graphics2D plugin.
WARNING: failed to initialize plugin 'crystalspace.graphics3d.opengl'
WARNING: No shader plugins found!
WARNING: could not load plugin 'crystalspace.window.x'
Could not create an instance of crystalspace.window.x!
WARNING: failed to initialize plugin 'crystalspace.graphics2d.glx'
Error loading Graphics2D plugin.
WARNING: failed to initialize plugin 'crystalspace.graphics3d.opengl'
No 3D driver!
WARNING: could not load plugin 'crystalspace.level.loader'
WARNING: could not load plugin 'crystalspace.window.x'
Could not create an instance of crystalspace.window.x!
WARNING: failed to initialize plugin 'crystalspace.graphics2d.glx'
Error loading Graphics2D plugin.
WARNING: failed to initialize plugin 'crystalspace.graphics3d.opengl'
WARNING: could not load plugin 'crystalspace.level.loader'
iGraphics3D failed to Init!
Segmentation fault


i have the same problem, please help me!

ubuntu 9.10 2.6.31-16-generic x86_64 nvidia 190 planeshift 0.5 rc2

[Aiwendil]

Really not sure, but try to run the launcher once with "./pslauncher --repair". And it is maybe worth a try to rename the ~/.PlaneShift directory to something else and having the new version create a completely new configuration.