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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.

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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.

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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

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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

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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!! :P)

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 :angry:

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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.

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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.

 

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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.

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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?

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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

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