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Archives (read only) => Vanilla Glest => Linux and other ports => Topic started by: daewin on 16 December 2007, 02:27:18

Title: Glest 2.0.1-multi on Knoppix 2.6.19 starting trouble
Post by: daewin on 16 December 2007, 02:27:18

Hi 2 everyone,

I'm trying to play glest under Knoppix v2.6.19.

First, I took LOKi Installer at hxxp://www.liflg.org/?catid=6&gameid=58 (http://hxxp://www.liflg.org/?catid=6&gameid=58)
It was glest_2.0.1-multilanguage.run (69.65MB)

Once downloaded,
$> sh glest_2.0.1-multilanguage.run
Verifying archive integrity... All good.
Uncompressing Glest 2.0.1-multilanguage Installer.................................

Then I saw Glest Setup :)
So install path was -> /usr/games/glest
and binary path was -> /usr/local/bin

Later, when typing glest in root shell I can't start I an error was occuried :
$>glest
./glest.bin: error while loading shared libraries: libopenal.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

What does it mean ? Any hints ?

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Post by: hailstone on 16 December 2007, 11:57:46

OpenAL (http://http://www.openal.org/) is  a library dependency of Glest. So it is either not installed or Glest can't find or doesn't have access to it.

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Post by: titi on 18 December 2007, 09:13:02

Oh, you installed it as root.

It's better to install it as a normal user in your home directory.
Glest is escpecially meant to make changes and this is more safty in a users dir.

"glest" should be a startscript which sets the LD_LIBRARY_PATH and then starts glest.bin. The libs should be included in the loki version. Probably this is an installer problem when installing as root into the system. Try to install it as normal user instead this should fix it.

( I hope Knoppix has a "normal" user )