Blatm
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Hi,

I'm a longtime DROD fan and feel compelled to install it on my new Ubuntu 64bit laptop. However, I'm also very new to Linux and hence very incompetent. I have downloaded the Linux Architect's Eddition .run file from forum.caravelgames.com/downloads.php and now my terminal looks like:

blatm@Bob:~/Downloads$ sh DRODAESetup-1.6.7.run   [note: please don't assume I'm competent enough to know what I just did]
Verifying archive integrity... All good.
Uncompressing DROD: Architects' Edition...........................................................................................................................................................................................................................

Gtk-WARNING **: Failed to load module "libcanberra-gtk-module.so": libcanberra-gtk-module.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

Gdk-WARNING **: locale not supported by C library

An installation window popped up, I told it where to install, and now I have a /drod-ae directory.

blatm@Bob:~/drod-ae$ ls
Caravel DROD Licensing Overview.txt  Data  drod-ae  drodae.xpm  Libs  uninstall

I don't know what to do from here. Any help would be much appreciated.

Syntax
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I can't help you with this, but are you specifically wanting to play AE?

I'd recommend getting the TCB demo (with linux installer) which allows you to play 100 (200?) custom made holds for free...

west.logan
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Another thing I've done with my Linux VM is run WINE. I installed TCB under it and it runs perfectly as far as I can tell. That might be simplest. I wasn't able to figure out the native AE install myself.

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Blatm wrote:
Gtk-WARNING **: Failed to load module "libcanberra-gtk-module.so": libcanberra-gtk-module.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

Have you tried to googling (or any other search engine) for the error message?

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Tim wrote:

Blatm wrote:
Gtk-WARNING **: Failed to load module "libcanberra-gtk-module.so": libcanberra-gtk-module.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

Have you tried to googling (or any other search engine) for the error message?

Since the installer printed that before showing anything I doubt it's much of a problem.

As for running the game - I'm pretty sure the executable is that "drod-ae" file, so running that ("./drod-ae" or "~/drod-ae/drod-ae") should do the trick.

Of course, I'm not sure if 64bit Ubuntu runs 32bit executables out of the box; if not you'll have to install support for that, probably by installing the ia32-libs package...

(NB: I'm a Debian user, and all I ever use it for is as a server, so I don't even have X installed anywhere, let alone a 64bit version - so I might be slightly wrong... )

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Blatm
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Thanks for the help guys. I still can't get DROD working.

I'll look into TCB, but AE holds a special place in my heart and I'd like to get it working (though it's not the end of the world if I can't).

I'll consider installing WINE.

I haven't looked into the gtk warning.

I already have ia32-libs installed.


When I try ./drod-ae I get:

blatm@Bob:~/drod-ae$ ./drod-ae
./drod-ae: 16: /home/blatm/drod-ae/drod-ae.bin: not found

I don't know why that is. I checked that drod-ae is indeed an executable with

blatm@Bob:~/drod-ae$ ls -l
[...]
-rwxr-xr-x 1 blatm blatm  355 2011-06-06 19:06 drod-ae
[...]

I can also doubleclick on it in my folder browser and I get a window asking me "Do you want to run "drod-ae", or display its contents? "drod-ae" is an executable text file." and giving me the options Run in Terminal/Display/Cancel/Run. Neither Run does anything, and Display opens the file in a text editor:

#!/bin/sh

DRODAE_HOME="/home/blatm/drod-ae"

if test "x$LD_LIBRARY_PATH" = "x"; then
LD_LIBRARY_PATH="$DRODAE_HOME/Libs"
else
LD_LIBRARY_PATH="$DRODAE_HOME/Libs:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH"
fi

DROD_1_6_RES_PATH="$DRODAE_HOME/Data"
DROD_1_6_DAT_PATH="$DRODAE_HOME/Data"

export LD_LIBRARY_PATH DROD_1_6_RES_PATH DROD_1_6_DAT_PATH

"$DRODAE_HOME/drod-ae.bin" "$@"

(I don't know what any of that means)

Thanks.

west.logan
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Yeah, I'm not quite sure myself (like I said, I never got the Linux version working, but then again I didn't try very hard).

There is a Windows version of AE which should also run fine under WINE, if TCB works. You might give that a shot.

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Syntax wrote:
I'd recommend getting the TCB demo (with linux installer) which allows you to play 100 (200?) custom made holds for free...

I think it's actually close to 400 now, which is truly remarkable. I've had more fun with some of those than the purchased holds.

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Blatm
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Update:

I tried to uninstall the Linux version of AE but ./uninstall gave me the message "Could not find a usable uninstall program. Aborting."

I ran the .run file again anyway after having done "unset GTK_MODULES" (which Google tells me should fix the first of the two gtk warnings, and it did).

blatm@Bob:~/Downloads$ sh DRODAESetup-1.6.7.run 
Verifying archive integrity... All good.
Uncompressing DROD: Architects' Edition...........................................................................................................................................................................................................................

Gdk-WARNING **: locale not supported by C library
/home/blatm/.caravel/installed/bin/Linux/x86/uninstall: error while loading shared libraries: libgpm.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
/tmp/setupdb-bin.4dWsf9: error while loading shared libraries: libgpm.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

I set the install path and binary path (don't know what this is) to where they were before. I still get the same problems.


So I tried WINE. Wine seems to work fine with the Windows download from caravelgames.com/Articles/Games_2/DownloadKDD.html, but when I try to run the Windows Setup file for AE from forum.caravelgames.com/downloads.php I get

The file '/home/blatm/Downloads/CDROD1_6_7setup(1).exe' is not marked as executable. If this was downloaded or copied from an untrusted source, it may be dangerous to run. For more details, read about the executable bit.

Ok, so I set chmod +x CDROD1_6_7setup\(1\).exe. I try again and my screen goes a bit askew, the top bar says I'm in Wine Windows Program Loader, and I get the error message

The file 'C:\users\blatm\Temp\GLFa9a.tmp' could not be opened. Please check that your disk is not full and that you have access to the destination directory.

The file changes in the last 2 characters every time I run it, e.g. I get 'C:\users\blatm\Temp\GLFaab.tmp' the next time I run it. This might be a generic Wine problem, so I'll Google some more and ask around.

Syntax
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west.logan wrote:

Syntax wrote:
I'd recommend getting the TCB demo (with linux installer) which allows you to play 100 (200?) custom made holds for free...

I think it's actually close to 400 now, which is truly remarkable. I've had more fun with some of those than the purchased holds.

Wow... I stand happily corrected

west.logan
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Blatm,

There was a chap a few weeks ago who made a script to install. I tried and didn't have the right packages installed and so didn't bother any further, but you may have better luck.

Then again, this could be merely exacerbating the problem...

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