[Gambini]

What said... i want to play Eduke32 on Ubuntu but dont seem to find a way to do it (it's worth noting that my experience using this OS is null). When i open the software center and write eduke32 in the "search" box nothing pops up. I've read the "instructions" in www.eduke32.com but can't understand how adding that line to my Software source list will let me play the game.

Detailed and step by step help would be appreciated!

[Plagman]

After adding apt.duke4.net to your sources as indicated, you should be able to pull precompiled builds of EDuke32 through your package manager, though I'm not familiar with the software center front-end; you might want to use something like synaptic. Once you added the lines, you can always use the following commands:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install eduke32

The first one will tell the package manager to re-read the package lists from all its sources (necessary because you just added a source), the second one will tell it to pull eduke32 (and it will know how if you correctly added apt.duke4.net).

[Master Fibbles]

Woah..when did you guys add apt support? That makes installing eduke so much easier...

[Plagman]

The APT packages are provided and maintained independently by a kind soul that goes by the name of zebioman. apt.duke4.net is really just another community-contributed hosted site.

[Master Fibbles]

Yep. Instructions on that site work like a charm. I just installed it after rebooting to Ubuntu. At some point I have to update to 10.10 but until I get around to it...this works.

[Gambini]

Ok, so i managed to install the port, although the packages manager warned me about something not being authentificated. So thank you very much for your help, it guided in the proper direction. Now, i still can't play the game because i don't know how to put the duke3d.grp inside the eduke32 folder.

Where it is supposed to be installed?

[Plagman]

Try looking at what search paths it used in eduke32.log; ~/.eduke32 should work, and there's probably something like /usr/share/games/duke3d or something. According to the wiki page there's a duke3d-shareware package that installs a shareware duke3d.grp. You can try installing that and then figuring out where it installed it using `locate duke3d.grp` or `dpkg -L duke3d-shareware`.

[Master Fibbles]

~/.eduke32 is the folder to put the GRP etc in. I haven't bothered with setting up a HRP or any maps yet. I assume I would just either link or copy the autoload folder I have on my Windows partition.

[Gambini]

Well, this is very difficult. I should read a few tutorials instead bothering you with this kind of questions. I finally found the folder but there´s one new problem: for much i try to drag and drop or copy and paste my duke3d.grp into this ./eduke32 folder, the system keeps telling me i don´t have the rights to modify the directory. I managed to make it work, though, simply installing the shareware grp that comes with the package, but that´s not exactly what i wanted to do with the port.

[Master Fibbles]

It shouldn't be protected...but if for some reason it is...

sudo nautilus

should give you a window to browse as the superuser. With that window you should have no problem copying it.
Or you could just:

sudo cp /[folder of GRP]/DUKE3D.GRP /~.eduke32/

That should work, I think.

[Gambini]

Thanks again, i've been using Nautilus before but it doesn't seem to fix the problem, but now, since i have the terminal opened, i can see a sort of log and get a bit more info of why i can't copy these files:

Nautilus-Share-Message: Called "net usershare info" but it failed: La «red compartida» devolvió el error 255: net usershare: cannot open usershare directory /var/lib/samba/usershares. Error No existe el archivo o directorio
Please ask your system administrator to enable user sharing.

Different attemps give also:

** (nautilus:1578): WARNING **: Could not inhibit power management: The name org.gnome.SessionManager was not provided by any .service files

WTF i miss Windows

EDIT: I'm logging as administrator of course.

[Master Fibbles]

From where are you copying? The problem seems to be from your source Samba drive.

[Gambini]

I opened the terminal to lauch this Nautilus tool, these messages appear in the terminal after i try to copy or try to change the attributes of this eduke32 folder.

I don´t have idea of what a Samba drive is. ** now i read about it. That may be the problem... For some reason i can access my 2nd NTFS HD but can´t access the Windows partition of my main HD. Now i´m writting from Windows but as soon as i restart gonna check if this Samba thing is properly installed. In the meanwhile any further tip is welcome

[Plagman]

I'm pretty sure this console spew is unrelated to any of your problems. Applications (as opposed to command-line tools) will usually spew a lot of crap you don't need to read if you run them from a console. Where exactly are you trying to copy duke3d.grp? You said something about ./eduke32, but that's not it. You want ~/.eduke32, where ~ is your home directory, so something like /home/gambini/.eduke32

Note the . before eduke32, it's important. You might need to enable hidden folders before you see folders/files that start with a . in your home directory.

[ihavewaited15years]

Perhaps I can pick up where this thread left off...

Im new to Ubuntu so if it sounds like im stupid or dont know what Im doing its probably because I dont.

I pulled my old box out of the closet.
AMD Athlon 64 3000
1gb ram
ATi Radeon X550
a bit old but its what I got...

got latest cut of Ubnuntu running on it now.

Ive pretty much hit the same wall "gambini" hit. Eduke32 is installed and works, kinda. Gameplay is classic duke but no HR. 1st problem is the freeware version of the game.. I try to copy the duke.grp from the AtomicE CD but it says I do not have permission to cpy files to or delete existing files from the usr/share/games/eduke32 or jfduke32 folders. It wont even allow me to change permission setting, and yes I am the administrator. Same error apply when trying to unzip hr files into the same folders.


all of my instructions so far have come from http://www.eduke32.com/ and as I said before, Im very new to ubuntu.

[Helixhorned]

@Gambini, ihavewaited15years:
I'd recommend reading some newbie Linux guides to familiarize yourself with the bare basics (how the file system is structured etc.).

You're getting the 'no permission' errors because you (as 'normal' user, e.g. 'gambini') don't have the rights to write to directories outside your home directory (with exceptions). Doing stuff as root ('admin') is usually discouraged, as you can break the system with a misplaced command.

Some things work differently in EDuke32 when on non-windows OSes, most of them having to do with search paths and the like. Basically, ~/.eduke32 is your common directory for everything that's to be loaded unless EDuke32 is started with -usecwd. So, to do a basic setup, you could do something like this:

cd ~/.eduke32
ln -s /path/to/windows/folder/DUKE3D.GRP .
# the above line makes a symbolic ('soft') link

[Gambini]

Thanks Helix, I gave up with Ubuntu long time ago. Not because it is bad but because I had nothing to do since i could never have access to my Window´s partition and therefore i could not use my files. When the computer starts it still asks whether i want to use XP or Ubuntu...

[Plagman]

That's weird, Ubuntu is pretty good about letting you do that easily from the user interface these days. You can definitely mount windows partitions and access them, but it's been made a lot more accessible in the past few years.

[Gambini]

The interface was very intuitive and such but there was no way i could see my windows drive in the Nautivus (or whatever the file browser is called). Funnily enough, when i had two HDs installed I could access the D: drive but never could access the C: drive. Maybe it´s worth noting that i never partitioned my HD for Ubuntu, i just downloaded a Windows installer that created an Ubuntu folder of the size i choosed to give for it. So it is like a fake partition, maybe that´s what prevents the main drive to be accessed, just guessing.