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Cant get oolite to start on debian
Posted: Sun Mar 23, 2008 10:03 pm
by Jonny R
Hi
I installed oolite using dselect (apt-get) and it appeared to install fine, however when i try to run it, it just says:
jonny@debian:~$ oolite
Aborted
Thats it! Im a bit stuck because that error message doesn't give me anywhere to start!
Im using debian testing and i think it's version 1.65 of oolite.
When it installed it asked for oolite and the data files.
Help appreciated
Cheers
Jonny
Posted: Mon Mar 24, 2008 6:10 am
by davcefai
You'll need to supply some more detail to resolve this. However for starters:
Oolite comes in 2 packages: Oolite and Oolite-data. Did you install both?
Did you install Gnustep? You should have, as Oolite depends on Gnustep but you might have short-circuited this if you used dselect directly.
When it installed it asked for oolite and the data files.
Can you elaborate on exactly what happened here?
Posted: Tue Mar 25, 2008 8:10 pm
by Jonny R
yeah I installed both packages.
I also did this after poking about on the forums a bit:
debian:/home/jonny# apt-get install gnustep-core-devel libmozjs-dev
so think i should have gnustep now ? shouldn't this be included in the dependencies when you select oolite?
and this aswell (cant remember where I saw this tho):
jonny@debian:~$ chcon -t unconfined_execmem_exec_t /usr/lib/GNUstep/System/Applications/oolite.app/oolite
Everything Installed fine although I did a big batch of new games and 2 packages aren't happy - yiff-server and pioneers-console-data. Are either of these anything to do with oolite?
Did i need to do anything else?
btw
oolite is version 1.65-6
oolite-data is 1.65-2
Posted: Wed Mar 26, 2008 5:47 am
by davcefai
It has been quite some time since I installed Oolite. However I installed Gnustep for the sole purpose of running it.
These are the packages I have:
gnustep-back-common
gnustep-base-common
gnustep-base-runtime
gnustep-common
gnustep-core-devel
gnustep-gui-common
gnustep-gui-runtime
gnustep-make
gnustep-ppd
There is another factor: You have probably installed v1.65. Gnustep was upgraded some time back and there was some talk that 1.65 had problems with the new version. I actually pinned Gnustep to avoid problems.
Suggestion: Uninstall 1.65 and install 1.71 from the repository. Note that the Debianised package installs to different directories from the "original", hence the suggestion that you uninstall.
1.71 is bleeding edge but, in fact, more fun!