[ggo-discussion] Re: glGO and SuSE 9.3

Ulrich Groh wrote:

Has somebody glGO (latest release) up and running under SuSE 9.3 ?

I don't have Suse installed myself currently, but a friend recently installed glGo 1.3 on Suse 9.3:

* Install the rpm using:
$ rpm -i --nodeps glGo-1.3-Python2.4.rpm
--nodeps forces RPM to skip the dependency checks

OR

Use the .tar.gz installer instead of the RPM.

* Create a symlink to libexpat.so.1

$ cd /usr/lib
$ ln -s libexpat.so.0.0.5 libexpat.so.1

libexpat.so.0.0.5 should be the file on Suse, please verify, I might not recall it correctly. Why Suse ships with an outdated libexpat is a question I cannot answer.


The required libraries have not changed since earlier released: SDL, SDL_image, SDL_ttf, Python 2.3 or 2.4 (download the right package, Suse should have 2.4).

If in doubt, check: $ ldd /usr/games/glGo

With glGo 1.3 I added a new installer for Linux: Autopackage. It is currently somewhat experimental. Goal is to get rid of the RPM and DEB packages and use distribution independant installers. One cannot create proper RPMs for Suse, Mandrake, Fedora etc. without having all these distributions installed. Installing all popular Linux distributions and keeping them updated is not an option.

Anyways, with above two steps glGo 1.3 was reported to run on a fresh Suse 9.3 installation.


Peter

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