Oolite Bulletins

Posted: **Mon Aug 31, 2009 4:04 pm**

Ok, with the flurry of activity over 1.73 - what's the best way to get it on my linux box) - I haven't done anything on since 1.72.2 and 'fess I can't remember what to do and in the various threads - Winston's bleeding edge nightly's doesn't appear to be (when you follow the link to the status page) and I'm not quite sure (anymore) if Getafix's Ubuntu install is relevant for 1.73...

Apologies if I'm just being dumb...

Posted: **Mon Aug 31, 2009 4:08 pm**

I was just talking to Getafix and he is in the process of generating the Linux 1.73 autopackage. Hopefully we will have something up very soon.

Posted: **Mon Aug 31, 2009 4:26 pm**

Faber-rooney! (must stop watching The Tweenies with the kids)

Posted: **Fri Sep 04, 2009 8:29 pm**

Linux will go for 1.73.1 release.

Cheers.

Posted: **Fri Sep 04, 2009 8:32 pm**

Getafix wrote:
Linux will go for 1.73.1 release.

Cheers.

Nice to see you back on the forums!

Posted: **Fri Sep 04, 2009 10:30 pm**

Nice to be back.

Posted: **Sun Sep 06, 2009 3:45 pm**

~~Has anyone tried to install 1.73.2 on a fresh (without oolite dev environment installed) Ubuntu 9.04?~~

When installing the .deb for 1.73.2, if it complaints about missing dependencies then do:

Code: Select all

sudo apt-get -f install

and accept the download (active internet connection is needed).

This will install any missing libraries.

Posted: **Sun Sep 06, 2009 5:57 pm**

I did test them on a virgin VirtualBox before uploading them, yes. They should pull in all dependencies.

Is there a problem?

Posted: **Sun Sep 06, 2009 7:39 pm**

I did the same on Ubuntu 9.04 VirtualBox and
it failed by reporting the missing dependencies.

Posted: **Sun Sep 06, 2009 8:20 pm**

Exactly how did you try to install the packages?

I must admit, I initially only tested that the packages work, so 'cheated' and used the repository I set up which means download/install is fully integrated into the Ubuntu GUI tools and hence very easy.

But I just tried by downloading and installing the packages directly, and on my virgin install, they got opened via the GDebi package installer, which is a GUI tool and automatically downloads and installs any missing dependencies.

Posted: **Sun Sep 06, 2009 9:03 pm**

What I did was:

Code: Select all

sudo bash
dpkg -i oolite-data_1.73.2-1_all.deb
dpkg -i oolite_1.73.2-1_i386.deb

Posted: **Sun Sep 06, 2009 9:19 pm**

Following an investigation it seems that

Code: Select all

sudo apt-get -f install

is the official way to install .deb files and their dependencies (at least for Ubuntu).

Case closed.

Oolite Bulletins

1.73 on Linux?

1.73 on Linux?