What do I need to play the game in Ubuntu 7.10?

[legolas]

Hi
Thank you for reading my post
I saw that installation file is only 16 MB and it is very small for a Realtime strategy, Is there some other packages or data files that I should install in order to play this game?

Thanks

[Buginator]

Hi
Thank you for reading my post
I saw that installation file is only 16 MB and it is very small for a Realtime strategy, Is there some other packages or data files that I should install in order to play this game?

Thanks

Don't use the one in the Ubuntu repo, unless they updated it.  The one they had is very old, and broken.

I suggest you compile it yourself.

I think the size is around 30-40MB or so now.

[DevUrandom]

Hi
Thank you for reading my post
I saw that installation file is only 16 MB and it is very small for a Realtime strategy, Is there some other packages or data files that I should install in order to play this game?

Thanks

Version 2.0.10 is ~15MB, yes that is correct.
2.1_beta1 is ~30MB, but there is not yet a Debian (and thus of course no Ubuntu) package available yet.

Just, like Buginator said: Take care you do not use and Ubuntu 2.1.0~svn package, that one is broken and outdated and does not work and it is old.

[legolas]

Thank you for reply.
Is it good to download and build http://svn.gna.org/daily/warzone-snapshot.tar.gz ?
Do I need some kind of data and mission files ?

thanks.

[Verminus]

no the svn snapshot will have everything you need. apart from the dependencies (ie: QuesoGLC, which isn't  in the Ubuntu repo either).

a compile guide can be found in the wiki here http://wiki.wz2100.net/Compile_Guide

[legolas]

Thank you very much.
I complete that wiki page instructions and now I am looking to find how i should start the game.
however I have found a file named:wscript and I execute it using ./wscript but it stops with the following error:

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Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "./wscript", line 16, in <module>
    import Utils
ImportError: No module named Utils

am i executing a correct file?
What is this error about?


Thanks.

[DevUrandom]

wscript is the waf build script, not a warzone starter...
Run ./src/warzone2100 instead.

[nevlis]

I am trying to install under Ubuntu 7.1 also... but I'm having trouble running ./configure for QuesoGLC. I've tried 0.6.5 and 0.7.0 and they both have the same problem. It stalls after trying to find the OpenGL Util Toolkit, which I have installed, and have reinstalled. I tried the workaround on the wiki (the LDFLAGS pointer), but that doesnt work either. I've only been using Ubuntu for a few weeks so I'm sorry that I don't know any more useful information than that. Please let me know what I should do.

Thanks in advance.

[DevUrandom]

We definitely need more information...
I.e. which ./configure fails? QuesoGLC's or Warzone's? What does ./configure exactly output? Can you attach the config.log file?

[Verminus]

I think he means the ./configure script for QuesoGLC.

I also run Unbuntu 7.10 and even though Synaptic says I do have the libglut3, libglut3-dev, GLUT3 and GLUT3-dev packages (all of which have been replaced by freeglut3 and freeglut3-dev respectively) but Queso's ./configure script says I cant find the GLUT library so wont build the example programs and tests, (not that I'm that bothered really) but it will still build the actual QuesoGLC libs.

[DevUrandom]

--disable-executables (in >=quesoglc-0.7.0) prevents building the tests and examples.

[chuck]

Hi there!

Nice to see such an active and helpful team here.

I'm running Ubuntu 7.10 64bit, stumbled across your game and found out the Ubuntu version is broken. So I checked out http://svn.gna.org/svn/warzone/trunk (r4326) as recommended somewhere here on the board and compiled it, without major problems.

After 'sudo make install', I'm not able to start a campaign running /usr/local/bin/warzone2100:

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warning : Sequence display is currently disabled (sequences/cam1/c001.rpl)
warning : seq_StartFullScreenVideo: unable to initialise sequence sequences/cam1/c001.rpl
Saved dump file to '/tmp/warzone2100.gdmp'
Segmentation fault (core dumped)

So I  ran the binary in the trunk/src dir, but now facing the problem I had in the first place: I cannot load the saved games, because wz segfaults. (By the way I still get those warnings, but the game does not crash when I start a new campaign.)

I'd be thankful for any advice.
Thanks!

[Ursa]

Honestly it's really hard to get all the dependencies taken care of unless you're using the unstable Ubuntu (Hardy) because you need a newer Libc6 library than they provide.

I wish I knew how to put a fully compiled version in a .deb file, I could just give it to you... but I don't

[ratarf]

I had some time yesterday night, so I downloaded ubuntu 7.10, put it on a cd, installed it on my older laptop. After some struggle I got my wireless network to work. Then I followed the linux compile guide from the wiki. It went a lot smoother than I expected, the guide really helped me.
So finally warzone compiled and ran just fine. Now I want to play around with the code. Any IDE recommendations?

[chuck]

Honestly it's really hard to get all the dependencies taken care of unless you're using the unstable Ubuntu (Hardy) because you need a newer Libc6 library than they provide.

So I upgraded Ubuntu to 8.04, make clean quesoglc-0.7.1, ./configured, made and made install it. Then made clean warzone, ./autogen.shed, ./configured, made and made install. With unfortunately the same results as before. Except that additional warning (which appears, when I'm quitting to restart and load, so I guess it doesn't matter):

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warning : eventReset: 3 contexts still allocated at reset

Building a package for Ubuntu 7.10 won't help unless you link the libraries staticly, since Ubuntu uses other versions, am I right? If I got the game running, I could try doing that...

Compiling under Ubuntu is absolutely no problem as long as you roughly can guess which -dev packages you need to apt-get. I was able to figure that out even before finding that guide.

Any IDE recommendations?

Give Eclipse a shot. I know it's big and fat, but it has some nice features.