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Testers needed: Linux installer preview
Posted: Tue Nov 08, 2005 4:27 pm
by Yoghurt
Edit: It is known that the binary the installer installs does not work on many platforms. So there is no need for further testing at the moment.
I'm uploading the preview of the linux installer right now. At around 1600 UTC you should be able to
download it here (38 MB). Please test it if it works on your system, as I needed to make a few changes to the entire FO codebase (it does not rely anymore on being started from the directory that contains default/ and stores savegames and config seperately for each user)
Please note that the installer does not really check for all of the required libs. It only checks for gigi and installs it automatically if needed.
Everything else you will need to have already installed, like
- boost 1.32 (not 1.33)
- FMOD (not FMOD-EX)
- SDL
- SDLnet
- Freetype
- Graphviz
These checks will be included in the final, but I first need to make sure FO itself is working.
To install, make the .package file executable:
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chmod +x freeorion-0.3.x86.package
and then just start it.
This package should work on older, gcc 3.3 distributions as well as gcc 3.4 based distributions.
To uninstall, execute
if gigi was not installed on your system, remove it as well
If you want to get rid of
Autopackage itself (not really necessary; more and more software is provided in .packages), do
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package remove autopackage-gtk autopackage
(It may be necessary to replace -gtk by -qt, just execute "package list" to see the list of installed packages, every package must be removed before the (invisible) autopackage itself can be removed)
Posted: Tue Nov 08, 2005 5:08 pm
by Yoghurt
Found a bug. Uploading new version, please be sure the installer says "PREVIEWINSTALLER2"
Posted: Wed Nov 09, 2005 5:49 am
by leiavoia
I just wanted to make you aware that i've upgraded (unknowingly) to GCC 4.0.1-2 (debian). It's already broken some of my personal code and i would probably have a really hard time trying to fight debian's packaging system and "downgrade" GCC. As such, while i would be happy to test the installer, i want to know the code will compile on GCC 4.x first. Please let me know if that is going to be possible. Thanks.
Is it possible to have GCC 3.x and 4.x on the same system?
Posted: Wed Nov 09, 2005 1:06 pm
by Impaler
Cool an Instaler just what I need
I'm wondering though will it be possible to create an all inclusive "idiot proof" package that will cover all the dependences and give us super easy instalation?
Posted: Wed Nov 09, 2005 1:32 pm
by Yoghurt
leiavoia wrote:I just wanted to make you aware that i've upgraded (unknowingly) to GCC 4.0.1-2 (debian). It's already broken some of my personal code and i would probably have a really hard time trying to fight debian's packaging system and "downgrade" GCC.
Add the corresponding snapshot.debian.net line in your /etc/apt/sources.list and use pinning. Google for APT pinning. Or, even easier, after adding the snapshot line, run aptitude, select gcc and g++ and press capital V to see the available versions and mark the wanted one for installing by pressing "+" (after editing sources.list you will have to update the package database, press "u" (small u) in aptitude to do this)
As such, while i would be happy to test the installer, i want to know the code will compile on GCC 4.x first. Please let me know if that is going to be possible. Thanks.
Yes, I'm running Debian SID here. There was a broken veresion 4.0.1-7 in Debian that failed to compile boost. However, this is now fixed.
Is it possible to have GCC 3.x and 4.x on the same system?
Yes, though you might run into problems if mixing 3.3 with 3.4 and above (4.0) as the ABI changed and libraries compiled with 3.3 will not link with 3.4 programs and vice-versa.
However, this is a binary installer I'm providing, not a source release!
Posted: Wed Nov 09, 2005 1:34 pm
by Yoghurt
Impaler wrote:Cool an Instaler just what I need
I'm wondering though will it be possible to create an all inclusive "idiot proof" package that will cover all the dependences and give us super easy instalation?
Yes, I'm working on that, but before this, I want to make sure FO itself runs.
The all-in-one installer will be missing FMOD, as you are not allowed to re-distribute it. Another reason to switch to a free alternative in the near time.
Posted: Wed Nov 09, 2005 4:11 pm
by muxec
Can you please post
links to all required libs
download pages?
Running Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 sid, kernel version is 2.6.11, gcc 4.0.2.
Failed have I.
rpm: To install rpm packages on Debian systems, use alien. See README.Debian.
error: cannot open Packages index using db3 - No such file or directory (2)
rpm: To install rpm packages on Debian systems, use alien. See README.Debian.
error: cannot open Packages index using db3 - No such file or directory (2)
Refreshing linker cache, please wait ... done
Later
Checking for required C library versions ... OK
Checking for GiGi ... failed
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Error: Could not find 'GiGi'. Try using the native package manager for (apt) to install a package with similar name to 'libgigi'.
Error: Unable to prepare package FreeOrion PREVIEWINSTALLER2 0.3.
Does it really autoinstall gigi? Did I understand the first post correctly?
Posted: Wed Nov 09, 2005 5:20 pm
by Yoghurt
muxec wrote:Running Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 sid, kernel version is 2.6.11, gcc 4.0.2.
Add "deb
http://snapshot.debian.net/archive/ pool boost" to your sources.list. then run
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aptitude update
aptitude install libboost-{filesystem,graph,signals}1.32.0c2 libsdl1.2debian-all libsdl-net1.2 libdevil1c2 libfreetype6 liblog4cpp1c102
Then download
http://www.fmod.org/files/fmodapi40200linux.tar.gz, extract it, and copy the .so file to /usr/local/lib and run ldconfig
Does it really autoinstall gigi? Did I understand the first post correctly?
freeorion-0.3.x86.package contains libgigi-0.6.x86.package and will install it if gigi is not found.
Edit: ...or at least it should... and it does on my machine.
Posted: Wed Nov 09, 2005 5:42 pm
by Yoghurt
Aha! Stupid autopackage stores the symlink instead of the real file. Uploading fixed version, titled "PREVIEWINSTALLER3". Will be uploaded at around 1800 UTC
Posted: Wed Nov 09, 2005 5:54 pm
by muxec
Please use small xdelta instead of large file if possible.
Posted: Wed Nov 09, 2005 5:57 pm
by Yoghurt
Too late
But as even rsync cannot speed things up this time, xdiff probably would not have helped. I will, however upload libgigi-0.6.x86.package seperately, so you can just download that instead (the only difference between 2 and 3 is that 3 contains this file)
Posted: Wed Nov 09, 2005 6:02 pm
by muxec
Corrupt file only 2MB
Posted: Wed Nov 09, 2005 6:05 pm
by Yoghurt
That why I said "it will be uploaded at 1800 UTC", now its 1705 UTC. I only have 12 kB/s upstream, so uploading takes an hour.
Posted: Wed Nov 09, 2005 6:08 pm
by muxec
Posted: Wed Nov 09, 2005 6:05 pm
Posted: Wed Nov 09, 2005 6:13 pm
by Yoghurt
Oh damn! I forgot we're not in daylight savings time anymore
So it will be uploaded at 1900 UTC, sorry for the confusion.