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Installed fine, but clicking icon to start game does nothing

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theWinterLion:
Thanks for the reply.

I told it to show hidden files, but still no evidence of a log file.  I'm quite certain it doesn't start the program at all.  Any reason it wouldn't even start the program?

Doctor J:

--- Quote from: theWinterLion on March 30, 2008, 07:39:24 pm ---I told it to show hidden files, but still no evidence of a log file.  I'm quite certain it doesn't start the program at all.  Any reason it wouldn't even start the program?

--- End quote ---

There are lots of reasons, which is why we can't give you better help until you give us better information.  You don't say which session manager you're using, so i'll assume it's Gnome.  Go to the menu Applications -> Accessories and start Terminal.  In there, type


--- Code: ---cd ~/ufoai
./ufo
--- End code ---

Note the directory to 'cd' will change depending upon where you actually have the program.  When the program is attempting to start it will spit out a screen or two of initialization information.  If the problem isn't obvious, then paste that back to us.

theWinterLion:
Thanks for your reply.

I apologize for the lack of complete information.  I am happy to provide anything you tell me, but I confess I lack the Linux experience to know what to report back.  I thank you for your patience.

I am indeed using Gnome.

I typed what you wrote into the terminal and it said this:

./ufo: error while loading shared libraries: libcurl.so.4: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

geever:
My guess was right you should install the curl package. I don't know which package manager ubuntu (and you) use (I have debian) but if apt then you should run this from a root* terminal:


--- Code: ---apt-get install curl
--- End code ---

*root is the system administrator user. You can get root privileges by typing su on the terminal and it's password when asked.

  regards
geever

shevegen:
theWinterLion seems you finally come to the core of the problem

whenever you have missing .so files then either you dont have the package available or something of that package is missing (many distributions are notorious for splitting up packages for no reason at all in today's life)

i am sure you will be able to tackle them one after the other now, and make sure to state how you found the game, too!

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