install megaglest

[Ayrin Greenflag]

hello, i know is a stupid question but... how do I install megaglest on linux?  (linux newbie).

thx thx thx

[John.d.h]

Download the latest Megaglest installer for Linux.  The latest one is 3.3.7.2, for which the topic is here: https://forum.megaglest.org/index.php?topic=6054.0.  Pick either the 32 or 64 bit, depending on your system.  Once you've downloaded the installer, navigate to it in your file browser, right click on the installer and bring up the properties window.  Switch to the permissions tab and mark the box that says "allow executing file as program".  Now close the properties window and double-click on the Megaglest installer to install it.  By default, it will install the configuration files in your home folder, so for example mine is in /john/megaglest.  This is where you can mess with your glest.ini and other settings (but you can do most of that in the game as well).

There is always a link to the latest version in the Megaglest (MAIN) topic, here: https://forum.megaglest.org/index.php?topic=4930.0

[Ayrin Greenflag]

Hello again :) I've successfully installed megaglest, i click on the icon in applications/games/megaglest ....and.... nothing happens :(  so sad maybe a benemoth is blocking my program?  :-X
I've tried to launch it in terminal ....without success....

newbie totally lost

[softcoder]

when launching from terminal, what output do you get?

[Ayrin Greenflag]

it say i have to install glest by apt-get etc etc...
have i to use some command??

[softcoder]

Please provide the following details:

- Which operating system you are using (and version and 32 or 64 bit)
- What version of Glest and where you installed it from
- What type of Video card you are using

[Ayrin Greenflag]

Ubuntu lucid lynx
latest megaglest 3.3.??? can't remember
video card....AHAHAHAHAHAHAH..... that's funny ...ati something with low low mem

[softcoder]

open a terminal and run:

cd ~/megaglest
./glest --version
./glest --opengl-info
./glest

What output do you get?

[Ayrin Greenflag]

at glest version

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gamedir [/home/chicca/megaglest]
Looking for LDCONFIG []...
LDCONFIG environment variable is not set...
Found LDCONFIG using which [/sbin/ldconfig]...
default library [/home/chicca/megaglest/lib/libopenal.so.0] is missing, attempting to find and link to a newer version if available...
default library [/home/chicca/megaglest/lib/libdirectfb-1.0.so.0] is missing, attempting to find and link to a newer version if available...
new library link [/usr/lib/libdirectfb-1.2.so.0] pointed to from [/home/chicca/megaglest/lib/libdirectfb-1.0.so.0]
default library [/home/chicca/megaglest/lib/libfusion-1.0.so.0] is missing, attempting to find and link to a newer version if available...
new library link [/usr/lib/libfusion-1.2.so.0] pointed to from [/home/chicca/megaglest/lib/libfusion-1.0.so.0]
default library [/home/chicca/megaglest/lib/libdirect-1.0.so.0] is missing, attempting to find and link to a newer version if available...
new library link [/usr/lib/libdirect-1.2.so.0] pointed to from [/home/chicca/megaglest/lib/libdirect-1.0.so.0]
./bin/glest.bin: error while loading shared libraries: libopenal.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

at opengl

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gamedir [/home/chicca/megaglest]
Looking for LDCONFIG []...
LDCONFIG environment variable is not set...
Found LDCONFIG using which [/sbin/ldconfig]...
default library [/home/chicca/megaglest/lib/libopenal.so.0] is missing, attempting to find and link to a newer version if available...
default library [/home/chicca/megaglest/lib/libdirectfb-1.0.so.0] is missing, attempting to find and link to a newer version if available...
new library link [/usr/lib/libdirectfb-1.2.so.0] pointed to from [/home/chicca/megaglest/lib/libdirectfb-1.0.so.0]
default library [/home/chicca/megaglest/lib/libfusion-1.0.so.0] is missing, attempting to find and link to a newer version if available...
new library link [/usr/lib/libfusion-1.2.so.0] pointed to from [/home/chicca/megaglest/lib/libfusion-1.0.so.0]
default library [/home/chicca/megaglest/lib/libdirect-1.0.so.0] is missing, attempting to find and link to a newer version if available...
new library link [/usr/lib/libdirect-1.2.so.0] pointed to from [/home/chicca/megaglest/lib/libdirect-1.0.so.0]
./bin/glest.bin: error while loading shared libraries: libopenal.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

at glest

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gamedir [/home/chicca/megaglest]
Looking for LDCONFIG []...
LDCONFIG environment variable is not set...
Found LDCONFIG using which [/sbin/ldconfig]...
default library [/home/chicca/megaglest/lib/libopenal.so.0] is missing, attempting to find and link to a newer version if available...
default library [/home/chicca/megaglest/lib/libdirectfb-1.0.so.0] is missing, attempting to find and link to a newer version if available...
new library link [/usr/lib/libdirectfb-1.2.so.0] pointed to from [/home/chicca/megaglest/lib/libdirectfb-1.0.so.0]
default library [/home/chicca/megaglest/lib/libfusion-1.0.so.0] is missing, attempting to find and link to a newer version if available...
new library link [/usr/lib/libfusion-1.2.so.0] pointed to from [/home/chicca/megaglest/lib/libfusion-1.0.so.0]
default library [/home/chicca/megaglest/lib/libdirect-1.0.so.0] is missing, attempting to find and link to a newer version if available...
new library link [/usr/lib/libdirect-1.2.so.0] pointed to from [/home/chicca/megaglest/lib/libdirect-1.0.so.0]
./bin/glest.bin: error while loading shared libraries: libopenal.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

[softcoder]

You are missing game dependency libraries, noticably libopenal.

Run this to install it:

sudo apt-get install libopenal1

Then re-run the game:

./glest --version
./glest

Thanks

[Ayrin Greenflag]

megathanks :)

it work!!   
well i guess it might work if i had more than 512 mb ram and a better video card ... but i will work on it and i bet it will work properly soon...

thx thx a lot for the quick reply