sitor Posted June 13, 2004 Report Share Posted June 13, 2004 Hello, As I'm trying to get also my kids using Linux more and more, I have created an account for them where they can do what they want. I installed them some games so they can play with them. However I read about Childsplay which would be a good packages of games for the kids. I already installed GCompris, whioh is OK, but not that attractive. Childsplay is supposed to be better in that respect. However when I install the Mandrake rpm, it installs alright, but it just does not run. When I try to launch the program, I get an item on the panel that says Starting Childsplay and a sand thing to show it is busy. However it then just disappears without doing anything. I tried to install an older package that was build for 9.2 (on my 10.0 OE box), it installs as well, and launching give the image of a cow and then all of a sudden nothing anymore. I think this might really help win my kids for the Linux camp (or at least give them the feeling that I'm not so crazy wanting to use Linux), so I really would like to get this working. Anyone an idea how to get this running? Thanks in advance, Sitor [moved from Software by spinynorman] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fabiom Posted June 17, 2004 Report Share Posted June 17, 2004 Hi I got a similar problem with the same program I tried to get around to see some documentation but unfortunately I was able to find out nothing. In my case using gcompris 2 and mandrake 9.1 the program starts but after that I cannot run the single games. If I'll be able to find some solution I'll post a message here, please the same make you in case you can solve the problem. Best regards Fabio Marca Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sellis Posted December 14, 2004 Report Share Posted December 14, 2004 I found out about Childsplay through Linux Format this month and checked to see if it was in 10.0, and yeas, it was! (Although a little behind the curve as it is version 0.69) However, I got the same problem as the previous poster, or something very similar. So, I tracked down the link on the menu and started /usr/bin/childsplay from a console. Many error messages appeared, basically saying that it's looking for stuff in /usr/local/...etc when it's actually installed in /usr/... instead. Obviously, this fails! I had a quick look at the main python script, and it looks like it's getting this path from a variable called "LIBDIR" (if I remember correctly - I'm not at my linux box at the moment), but I can't see where it's getting set up. Having got all the dependencies installed, I tried upgrading to version 0.80, from the official website, but with no success either - same problem. Has anyone actually installed this correctly and had it work? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
devries Posted December 14, 2004 Report Share Posted December 14, 2004 Yes it seems to be a Mandrake problem I installed it to test it. (childsplay-0.72-1mdk.noarch.rpm). It starts ok, I get I nice cow and some mooing, the program starts but as soon as I click on something it crashes with a python error) The python version coming with Mandrake is not the one everyone else is using. :( I don't know what they did with it but I have problems with some of the python programs I use (freevo, bittornado). Let's hope they fix it soon Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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