[Solved] help with GNUStep
Posted: Fri Nov 19, 2010 12:45 pm
I've just started using Linux - got Mint 10 installed and running nicely. I've used Unix back in the day, but I'd consider myself pretty much a newbie in this environment.
I can run Oolite 1.65 as installed from the package manager, and it works just fine, but I'd like to see all the nice shiny stuff that OXPs bring, so I installed 1.74.2
I haven't yet installed an OXP, but even so 1.74.2 refuses to start. The splash screen runs, then the window for Oolite opens and remains open. The game displays for a split second and then the window goes blank and does nothing else until I close it.
starting Oolite from a terminal, I get the following output ....
2010-11-19 12:36:05.292 oolite[23563] File NSUserDefaults.m: 626. In [NSUserDefaults +standardUserDefaults] Improper installation: No language locale found
bt_audio_service_open: connect() failed: Connection refused (111)
bt_audio_service_open: connect() failed: Connection refused (111)
bt_audio_service_open: connect() failed: Connection refused (111)
bt_audio_service_open: connect() failed: Connection refused (111)
From what I read this is caused by a clash between Oolite and GNUStep 1.19 (which is the default version from the Mint/Ubuntu repository. Therefore (I think) I need to either upgrade to GNUStep 1.21 or downgrade back to 1.18
1.21 is obviously not considered stable yet, and I notice it has to be compiled by the user - something which, right this minute, is outside my learning curve.
Is it possible to download a package version of 1.18 that I can just run and sit back and let it install all the required bits and bobs? If so, where do I go to get it? If not, what do I do instead?
all advise greatly received.
Big up to the people responsible for Oolite btw - I'm old enough to remember queuing for a copy of Elite when it was released on the BBC B, and playing it for 3 days straight without any sleep to get to Elite status before all my friends. No other game has ever caught my imagination in quite the same way, and oolite is by far the best rendition of the game I've ever seen - in some ways it actually improves on the original. Thanks.
I can run Oolite 1.65 as installed from the package manager, and it works just fine, but I'd like to see all the nice shiny stuff that OXPs bring, so I installed 1.74.2
I haven't yet installed an OXP, but even so 1.74.2 refuses to start. The splash screen runs, then the window for Oolite opens and remains open. The game displays for a split second and then the window goes blank and does nothing else until I close it.
starting Oolite from a terminal, I get the following output ....
2010-11-19 12:36:05.292 oolite[23563] File NSUserDefaults.m: 626. In [NSUserDefaults +standardUserDefaults] Improper installation: No language locale found
bt_audio_service_open: connect() failed: Connection refused (111)
bt_audio_service_open: connect() failed: Connection refused (111)
bt_audio_service_open: connect() failed: Connection refused (111)
bt_audio_service_open: connect() failed: Connection refused (111)
From what I read this is caused by a clash between Oolite and GNUStep 1.19 (which is the default version from the Mint/Ubuntu repository. Therefore (I think) I need to either upgrade to GNUStep 1.21 or downgrade back to 1.18
1.21 is obviously not considered stable yet, and I notice it has to be compiled by the user - something which, right this minute, is outside my learning curve.
Is it possible to download a package version of 1.18 that I can just run and sit back and let it install all the required bits and bobs? If so, where do I go to get it? If not, what do I do instead?
all advise greatly received.
Big up to the people responsible for Oolite btw - I'm old enough to remember queuing for a copy of Elite when it was released on the BBC B, and playing it for 3 days straight without any sleep to get to Elite status before all my friends. No other game has ever caught my imagination in quite the same way, and oolite is by far the best rendition of the game I've ever seen - in some ways it actually improves on the original. Thanks.