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[SOLVED] Ubuntu 12.04 Install Issue

#1
Hello everyone. I looked through the forum but didn't quite find anyone who had a similar issue as I'm having. I googled my problem, and found one outdated forum with one guy who had the same problem - but no reply. I've also tried several fixes.

I downloaded Xonotic and played it one time and loved it. Then when I tried to run it again, the .exe file wouldn't open. I tried the glx and the sdl files in 32 and 64 linux, I even tried the dedicated 32 and 64. Nothing at all happend. Nothing opened the game.

I created a launcher for it and I got an error screen and a command line. I fiddled with it to no avail. It said to add -basedir/path/to/game to the command path but that didn't do anything either. And yes, I do have my permissions set correctly.

Can anyone figure this one out?

Thank you!
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#2
I assume you're running Ubuntu 12.04? Then the *.exe files don't help you at all, they are windows executables. If I further assume you downloaded Xonotic from the Xonotic website, did you extract the zip file? If you did (for example to ~/Xonotic), then could you try starting the game by opening the console, navigating to the folder you extracted the zip to (example: to ~/Xonotic with "cd ~/Xonotic"), and then issue "./xonotic-linux64-sdl" (assuming you're on a 64 bit system). Does Xonotic open alright then?
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(03-06-2014, 05:45 AM)Halogene Wrote: I assume you're running Ubuntu 12.04? Then the *.exe files don't help you at all, they are windows executables. If I further assume you downloaded Xonotic from the Xonotic website, did you extract the zip file? If you did (for example to ~/Xonotic), then could you try starting the game by opening the console, navigating to the folder you extracted the zip to (example: to ~/Xonotic with "cd ~/Xonotic"), and then issue "./xonotic-linux64-sdl" (assuming you're on a 64 bit system). Does Xonotic open alright then?

Derp. I don't know why I wrote .exe haha. I meant the .sdl and .glx files. I tried all the ones for Linux. Also, yes I'm running on 12.04 64 bit; I downloaded from the web site; and I unzipped the file when I first downloaded.

I'll try entering in those commands in Terminal and see what happens.

Thanks for your quick reply!
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#4
If it runs and you only can't run it with the launcher you created, assign the location of the unzipped folder of Xonotic as "work path" for the launcher (e.g. ~/Xonotic). That should fix the issues with the launcher then. If it doesn't run from console, tell us what errors are being displayed.
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#5
I had this same issue. I opened xonotic-linux-glx.sh and added "cd ~/Xonotic" at the top of the script, problem solved.
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(03-06-2014, 06:26 PM)DeadTOm Wrote: I had this same issue. I opened xonotic-linux-glx.sh and added "cd ~/Xonotic" at the top of the script, problem solved.

That did the trick! I added cd to the script and it worked! I can't get the launcher to put the game in my Games menu, but at least I can play now.
Thanks Halogene and DeadTOm!
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#7
Are you using Ubuntu's Unity? I'd like to investigate how to set up a working launcher and post a short howto here.
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