Supertuxkart Awesome!

[sjaglin]

Hi,

 

As a mandriva user and a game addict I feel often a bit frustrated when I see that the best we can get with kiosk (which is not free) is xmoto... I used to play better game on my atari in the 70's!

 

Now, I fount that tuxkart was ok to relax between two updated of cooker, but follow that link :

 

http://supertuxkart.berlios.de/screenshots.html

 

and you'll find a game which is quite good for a freebie and is going to amuse me for a while. It is fully compatible with my MS-sidewinder precision pro which is even better!

 

Please, can we have an RPM for that sort of game to make our distro even more attractive???

 

Stef :D (who does not know how to write rpms....)

[ianw1974]

If the spec file is included in the tar.gz which sometimes can be if the source includes it, but then again not always, you can use:

 

rpmbuild -ta package.tar.gz

 

but again, chances are it's prob not there unless the author has been kind enough to include. I've found it exists for other apps, like bind, courier-imap, and other things like this.

[sjaglin]

I suppose that is the answer...

 

[root@localhost Download]# rpmbuild -ta supertuxkart_bin_x86_linux.tar.bz2
error: Name field must be present in package: (main package)
error: Version field must be present in package: (main package)
error: Release field must be present in package: (main package)
error: Summary field must be present in package: (main package)
error: Group field must be present in package: (main package)
error: License field must be present in package: (main package)
[root@localhost Download]#

[SoulSe]

Why not drop a mail to the game's developers and ask them for an rpm?

[ianw1974]

I suppose that is the answer...

 

[root@localhost Download]# rpmbuild -ta supertuxkart_bin_x86_linux.tar.bz2
error: Name field must be present in package: (main package)
error: Version field must be present in package: (main package)
error: Release field must be present in package: (main package)
error: Summary field must be present in package: (main package)
error: Group field must be present in package: (main package)
error: License field must be present in package: (main package)
[root@localhost Download]#

 

Yup, no specfile :P

 

Would be good if they made an rpm, or at least just provide the spec file, then you can take care of the rest with the rpmbuild app. I've had it fail once though, when trying to use it for freeradius. Wouldn't work, but I could compile it manually without any probs. No idea why the rpmbuild didn't work, considering it does exactly the same thing - only automated.

[sjaglin]

Why not drop a mail to the game's developers and ask them for an rpm?

 

Done, I have droped a line on supertuxkart-devel@lists.berlios.de to see if any luck...

 

Wait and see now! :D

[sjaglin]

Hi,

There is now an RPM available for this game, it s on a cooker repos but I ve tested it on 2007 ant it works fine!

Stef

 

ftp://ftp.pbone.net/mirror/carroll.cac.ps...2007.1.i586.rpm

[Guest banix]

i've visited this site :

 

ftp://ftp.pbone.net/mirror/carroll.cac.ps...2007.1.i586.rpm

 

and : error. no such file or directory.

 

can anybody publish new link for this rpm?

[neddie]

It's in the normal repositories. If you've set them up, you should be able to easily install tuxkart with the "add software" tool or by using urpmi from the console.