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theWinterLion:
Hello everyone.  I've been a long-time fan of X-COM but haven't played it for years and was pleased to stumble across your game yesterday at work.  I now have it installed on my computer, but when I click the ufo file, nothing happens.    No hour glass, nothing.

I'm running the Ubuntu Gutsy with an ATI card (the non-free driver) and Compiz.

Any clues why this might be happening?  Any help is appreciated.  I'm a total noob at Linux, having just gone "Free" 2 weeks ago, so I'm probably just making rookie errors.  No suggestion is too insignificant!

Kind regards,

geever:
I guess some required modules missing (libcurl,libsdl*,linpng). You can check the .ufoai/<version>/base/ufoconsole.log under your home directory. Or open a console/terminal and run ufo by hand. Then messages will be written out there.

 regards
geever

theWinterLion:
Thanks for the reply.

In my folder <username>/ufoai/base/ there is no file called ufoconsole.log.  Notice too that there is no <version> directory between ufoai and base.  I don't know if this is bad or not.

Kind regards,

geever:
The directory ufoai is your game directory, am I right? When starting the game first it (should) create(s) a .ufoai directory for user preferences and savegames. In linux the files/dirs starting with a dot are hidden so you should check with a capable file manager (like midnight commander).

  regards
geever

geever:
Ok, just checked Gnome's file manager can also show hidden files (I don't know which wm ubuntu uses), you just have to enable it in view menu. :)

IMO the best is to try running the game from console, maybe there you can see more than in the log.

geever

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