spellbyte Report post Posted October 13, 2004 I have been playing the windows version for about a week and i love the game, so i decided to have a go with it on my linux machine, and as i am a bit new to linux i am having some problems, i have de-compressed the zip file into a folder and when i click on the game file (el.x86.linux.bin) i get a window pop up that asks what program i would like to use to open the file, any help would be greatly appreciated. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Zeplin Report post Posted October 14, 2004 which window manager are you useing? Might be best to make a link for the el.x86.linux.bin on the desktop and click that instead. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Guest Report post Posted October 14, 2004 i use Konquerer as my window manager. i think Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Placid Report post Posted October 14, 2004 Open a shell (or 'konsole'). type: cd /the/path/to/eternal/lands when your in the eternal lands directory, type: chmod 755 el.x86.linux.bin then type: ./el.x86.linux.bin Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Guest Report post Posted October 14, 2004 thanks i'll give that a try Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
spellbyte Report post Posted October 14, 2004 when i try that last command it comes back with this ./el.x86.linux.bin: error while loading shared libraries: libopenal.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Placid Report post Posted October 14, 2004 You need the openal software (sound). What distribution are you using? You need to download the openAl drivers (try a google. might be openal.org) Download either the source or the rpm. If you get the rpm, do this: Open a shell (or 'konsole') and goto the directory where you downloaded the rpm (cd /path/to/rpm ) once there, type: su (this will change you to root) enter your password (if you have one, which you should!! ) then type: rpm -ivh name-of-rpm-file.x.x.x.rpm That should install it ok. If you get the source , you need to extract the tar file and do this: At the shell/console type: tar zxvf name-of-tar-file.tar.gz change to the new directory cd name-of-dir-created type: ./configure Once that has done and there are no errors, type: make when that is done type: make install Then try EL again good luck Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
spellbyte Report post Posted October 14, 2004 I'm using Yoper Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Placid Report post Posted October 14, 2004 Never used it. Get the openAl source and compile it. (or have you already tried the above?) Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
spellbyte Report post Posted October 14, 2004 not sure if i have it already, the distro im using isn't working with my sounds card so is there anyway of disabling sounds in the game so i dont need openAL Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Placid Report post Posted October 14, 2004 you wont here the sounds anyway, their disabled by default i think. Even if you dont want sound, you still need the libraries. Get the openal source and compile it using the instructions above. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
spellbyte Report post Posted October 14, 2004 just trying to find the rpm file, as im still a linux newbie i find them much easier Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Placid Report post Posted October 14, 2004 thats fine, rpm's are for newbies just wasnt sure if your distro uses rpms Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
spellbyte Report post Posted October 14, 2004 im having some trouble finding an rpm any pointers of where to get one. openal.org doesn't have any Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
spellbyte Report post Posted October 14, 2004 ignore that last post, i have found a very good source for rpm's at www.rpmseek.com Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Placid Report post Posted October 14, 2004 There's another: rpmfind.net Its good, but slow. Either are good enough, but rpmfind.net is easier to use. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
spellbyte Report post Posted October 14, 2004 i have installed the openAL rpm file but still getting the same error message come up Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
spellbyte Report post Posted October 14, 2004 i tried www.rpmfind.net but i couldn't get to the site cos of a timeout error Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Placid Report post Posted October 14, 2004 type: lsmod. Can you post the exact error messages? ANd how did you install the rpm? like i said above? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
spellbyte Report post Posted October 14, 2004 i used Kpackage to install the rpm file as it is the default program for rpm's on my distro, but i will try the way you suggested Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Placid Report post Posted October 14, 2004 well now u've installed it using 'kpackage' you cant install it again, it'll just say its already installed. If you had done it the way i said, you would have got any dependency or installation errors....hmmm Try and remove the openAl rpm, and the re-install it using the method i said above. <_< Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Umrion Report post Posted October 14, 2004 Check what files were installed and where. You can do this with "rpm -ql openal" (or something like that.) I'm sure there's a way to do it in kpackage too. I think the problem is that the files where installed, but in such a place that the program can't find them. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
spellbyte Report post Posted October 14, 2004 i tried to install the rpm file the way that you suggested, through the Konsole and it sed that it was already installed, so i tried to run EL once again ony to get this message back up ./el.x86.linux.bin: error while loading shared libraries: libopenal.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory should i try to unistall openAL as i originally used Kpackage to install it, and once uninstalled, install it the way you suggested? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
spellbyte Report post Posted October 14, 2004 just doing the unistall now Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
spellbyte Report post Posted October 14, 2004 this is what was returned when i entered the following command in Konsole rpm -ivh openal.rpm warning: openal.rpm: V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID 9b3c94f4 Preparing... ########################################### [100%] 1:openal ########################################### [100%] I assume that is all ok Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites