TetriNET is fun. I have got my girlfriend to play it with me. The Creatures game Docking Station has successfully installed. gtk+.i386 (gtk+ 1.2) needed to be installed. For posterity, here are some instructions.
- Go to Creatures' website
- Download Docking Station Linux client (>)
- make it executable: chmod +x dockingstation.run
- Install gtk+ 1.2 for the sake of imageconvert. (Did you get the following error?)
Converting images to local format ./imageconvert: error while loading shared libraries: libgtk-1.2.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
If you're on a 64 bit computer, realise that this is a 32-bit programme and will want the 32 bit gtk+ 1.2. On Fedora 8, I installed gtk+.i686, and in Ubuntu I installed libgtk1.2. For Fedora:# yum install gtk+.i686
For Ubuntu:# apt-get install libgtk1.2
- run the installer as root: sudo ./dockingstation.run. If you already tried to run it once and have to run it again, and you see the following:
File /usr/local/bin/dockingstation is already a symbolic link to a different place. The installer is trying to make a link to /usr/local/games/dockingstation/dstation-install.
Then just remove the old symbolic link: sudo rm /usr/local/bin/dockingstation - To actually run it, I was advised to type dockingstation nocheck, but the usage of dirname in the dockingstation script fails. That is, you might get the following error:
dirname: missing operand Try `dirname --help' for more information.
dockingstation is just a symbolic link in /usr/local/bin/ linking to /usr/local/games/dockingstation/dstation-install. I can successfully run /usr/local/games/dockingstation/dstation-install nocheck instead. To save myself the trouble of retyping it, I can replace /usr/local/bin/dockingstation (a symbolic link) with an actual executable file/script including the following:#!/bin/sh /usr/local/games/dockingstation/dstation-install nocheck
- Yay, now it works. My norns can now party hardily. Hardily indeed.
As of 2010.04.25 this still works for me (see:author's girlfriend)! The gtk+ step could perhaps use some elaboration, as no, it's not a 32 bit machine.
ReplyDelete"as no, it's not a 32 bit machine"? Hehe, the original paragraph addressed its not being one :)
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