Heya folks. I'm just trying to get a little clarification on how OXPs on linux work. I currently have Oolite installed in ~/Oolite, Usually I install my OXPs in ~/Oolite/AddOns. Now, I'm considering reinstalling Oolite in a system-wide manner. (I'm working on a project right now to create Slackware packages, just for ease of installation, and version shifting)
When I try and move my OXPs to ~/.local/lib/Oolite/AddOns as is stated on Oosat2, I get no OXPs at all. Is this simply because of the user-based installation I currently have? Do I need to install it system wide?
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OXPs in Home directory
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I noticed that too. Tested it out, it works brilliantly. With a little bit of bash scripting, my slackware 10.2 package for Oolite 1.65 works quite perfectly. I just have it check for the existance of the ~/.Oolite/AddOns/ directory, and create it, if it is not found, before running the game, so that the user then has the structure in place to install OXPs. I slapped in my AddOns directory in from the previous installation, and they all work as flawlessly as they had before.TedJ wrote:I think Oosat2 has got it wrong.
I have Oolite installed system-wide and keep my personal OXPs in ~/.Oolite/AddOns/ - I'd imagine that this directory would also work with a local install too, it's part of Oolite's default search path... check the console during game startup.
And be careful with the spelling! I have the Debian install, and I just couldn't get my OXPs to work. Then I realized I was putting them in ~/.Oolite/Addons/ instead of ~/.Oolite/AddOns/ (note the capitalization error).
Things are working much better now. At least, it's parsing the addons and returning errors. I can't wait to see torus stations!
Things are working much better now. At least, it's parsing the addons and returning errors. I can't wait to see torus stations!
Re: OXPs in Home directory
Well, I have a Debian Install straight from APT. I have placed my 'AddOns' folder in the following path:-magamo wrote:Heya folks. I'm just trying to get a little clarification on how OXPs on linux work. I currently have Oolite installed in ~/Oolite, Usually I install my OXPs in ~/Oolite/AddOns. Now, I'm considering reinstalling Oolite in a system-wide manner.
/usr/lib/GNUstep/system/applications
I only found this after watching the startup/debug console search various paths
This is planned, but I didn't had time for it, ATM. We, the Debian Games Team, intend to create a tool which would allow expasion packs, data files and simillar things which are not installed via APT, but will be after installing them with this tool.Judebert wrote:It seems to me we could make apt packages to install individual OXPs in the system-wide directory.
This couldn't be that difficult. What's involved in becoming a Debian developer, I wonder?
If you want you could try to make regular Debian packages for the OXPs, and I can heklp you. Please contact me/us on my persoanl email or debian-devel-games @ lists.debian.org if you are interested ( I read from time to time this forum because reading forums exits my regular work/brosing patterns).
http://wiki.debian.org/HowToPackageForDebianJudebert wrote:It seems to me we could make apt packages to install individual OXPs in the system-wide directory.