Hugolino Posted May 30, 2004 Report Share Posted May 30, 2004 Greetings, :unsure: I installed the official Mandrake 10.0 RPM for the fantasy turn-based strategy game "Battle for Wesnoth", but the program won't run! Is anyone able to run this game? Would installing the latest version (see www.wesnoth.org) help? I'm quite a Linux newbie so much prefer working with RPMs whenever possible. :( As for my computer's info, I have an Inno 3D Tornado GeForce FX 5200 graphics card, but I wouldn't imagine graphics would be a problem for a simple turn-based game. My sound card is Nvidia and so is my motherboard. My processor is AMD Athlon. Sincerely, Hugolino Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pzatch Posted May 31, 2004 Report Share Posted May 31, 2004 Have you installed the Nvidia drivers? If you try to start the game from the command line what error output does it show you? It could be something as simple as permitions. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Scrimpshire Posted June 2, 2004 Report Share Posted June 2, 2004 Can you point me to the RPM for the game? Or is it only on disk 6+ of PowerPack? I would be happy to try and install and test for you. I have an NVidia card (not as good as yours, only a 64 MB DDR AGP Geforce4). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hugolino Posted June 3, 2004 Author Report Share Posted June 3, 2004 > Can you point me to the RPM for the game? wesnoth-0.6.1-1mdk.rpm wesnoth-server-0.6.1-1mdk.rpm There's a Battle for Wesnoth web site as well (www.wesnoth.org) and the version is far more advanced (0.78) , but they don't have any RPMs you can download... only code to compile. > Have you installed the Nvidia drivers? I've installed: NVIDIA_GLX-5336-6mdk.rpm NVIDIA_nforce-2.4.25.2mdk-1.0-0261.5mdk.rpm NVIDIA_nforce-smp-2.4.25.2mdk-1.0-0261.5mdk.rpm NVIDIA_kernel-2.4.25.2mdk-5336-6mdk.rpm (and variations of that RPM name) > If you try to start the game from the command line what error output does it show you? $ /usr/games/wesnoth Initialized true type fonts BEGIN: preprocessing file... END: preprocessing file... (took 79ms) BEGIN: parsing config... END: parsing config... (took 0ms) Could not find units configuration $ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hugolino Posted June 3, 2004 Author Report Share Posted June 3, 2004 I explored the web and an article in Linux Gaming Planet led me back to the Battle for Wesnoth web site, and I discovered they've updated their binaries page (either that or I overlooked it earlier). They write: Wesnoth for Mandrakelinux ( cooker ) :Package are included in cooker, use urpmi ( urpmi wesnoth ) Wesnoth for Mandrakelinux ( 10.0 ) : wesnoth 0.6.1 is included in contribs repository. However the package has a problem. You need to be in /usr/share/games/wesnoth/ before running wesnoth. Unofficial and newer packages can be found on http://www.zarb.org/~misc/wesnoth/10.0/ So I guess now I have to wait for the long download (my modem is refusing to go faster than 14.4 and I haven't figured out where the problem lies). :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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