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Title: Glest won't Start
Post by: Madgemade on 13 December 2009, 17:36:00

Hi
I installed glest from the 3.2.2 from liflg.org it installed fine but when I try to start it nothing happens i I start it from the directory where I installed it still nothing I am useing Ubuntu 9.10 I had glest installed before from the Ubuntu software channel but uninstalled it because it minimised its window from fullscreen every time I played it.

Title: Re: Glest won't Start
Post by: -Archmage- on 13 December 2009, 17:51:42

Start it from Terminal.

Are you 64-bit or 32-bit?

Title: Re: Glest won't Start
Post by: Madgemade on 13 December 2009, 17:56:43

When I run it in terminal all it says is
The program 'glest' is currently not installed.  You can install it by typing:
apt-get install glest
glest: command not found

I am 32-bit

Title: Re: Glest won't Start
Post by: -Archmage- on 13 December 2009, 18:05:58

You can't just type Glest, that message is telling you to get Glest from add/remove, which you said gave you problems.........

Open Terminal.

Navigate to the directory where the Linux installer installed Glest.
Command: cd <|full path to installation directory|>

List all contents, the long way.
Command: ls -l

Please copy the list out of Teminal and post it.
To copy: Ctrl + Shift + c
To paste: Ctrl + v

Leave your Terminal window open.

Title: Re: Glest won't Start
Post by: Madgemade on 13 December 2009, 18:46:15

This is all what it said

total 1272
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root    4096 2009-12-13 17:22 data
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root    4096 2009-12-13 17:22 docs
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root    3685 2009-12-13 17:22 glest
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1228318 2009-12-13 17:22 glest.bin
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root    7406 2009-12-13 17:22 glest.ico
-rw-rw-rw- 1 root root     839 2009-12-13 17:22 glest.ini
-rw-rw-rw- 1 root root       0 2009-12-13 17:22 glest.log
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root    6446 2009-12-13 17:22 icon.xpm
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root    4096 2009-12-13 17:22 lib
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root    4096 2009-12-13 17:22 maps
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root     965 2009-12-13 17:22 README.liflg
drwxr-xr-x 9 root root    4096 2009-12-13 17:22 scenarios
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root    4096 2009-12-13 17:22 screens
-rw-rw-rw- 1 root root      27 2009-12-13 17:22 servers.ini
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root    4096 2009-12-13 17:22 techs
drwxr-xr-x 5 root root    4096 2009-12-13 17:22 tilesets
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root    4096 2009-12-13 17:22 tutorials
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root      77 2009-12-13 17:22 uninstall-glest.sh

hope this helps :)

Title: Re: Glest won't Start
Post by: -Archmage- on 13 December 2009, 19:36:36

Yes, that will help!

Now change the permissions on glest.bin.
Command: sudo chmod 777 glest.bin

Now execute the Glest binary.
Command: ./glest.bin

If all goes well, Glest should open.

Title: Re: Glest won't Start
Post by: Madgemade on 13 December 2009, 20:11:05

Sorry after doing your commands It came up with this error

./glest.bin: error while loading shared libraries: libxerces-c.so.27: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

Hope this will help   :)

Title: Re: Glest won't Start
Post by: -Archmage- on 13 December 2009, 20:32:10

Look at this (https://forum.megaglest.org/index.php?topic=4254.0) topic, hopefully it will help.

Title: Re: Glest won't Start
Post by: Madgemade on 13 December 2009, 20:54:18

Sorry but nothing in that post helped me so I will try to install the original glest from the software channal that I had a problem with, at least it works!!

I tryed that and it works but has a odd sound problem and the same screen problem,also the glest logo is very pixaly!! It is very odd one has a falt and the other dousnt work at all yet same version 3.2.2

Title: Re: Glest won't Start
Post by: -Archmage- on 14 December 2009, 16:52:43

Well, I don't know why you're having problems.........
Check this (https://forum.megaglest.org/index.php?topic=4799.0) out, I wrote it and I know it works, it could solve your graphics problems....

Please tell me what happens, and if the fix I posted works for you.