Argh, cant run

[Elias_Maluco]

Hi all. Im trying to run this game on Suse 10.0 64bits. Excuse me if Im doing something stupid here, Im a li9nux newbie.

So, I donwloaded the linux installer, runned it and it did installed the game, altough I got this error message during the installation:

Gtk-WARNING **: invalid cast from (NULL) pointer to `GtkEntry'

Gtk-CRITICAL **: file gtkentry.c: line 534 (gtk_entry_get_text): assertion `entry != NULL' failed.

After installing, Ive tried to run it and got this error:

linux:/home/jogos/uai # ufo-bin
Adding game dir: ./base
using /root/.ufoai/base/ for writing
Adding game dir: /root/.ufoai/base
execing default.cfg
couldn't exec config.cfg
execing keys.cfg
Console initialized.

------- sound initialization -------
Using Alsa
Using sounddevice "default" - if you have problems with this try to set the cvar                                                                           snddevice to a appropriate alsa-devicesound sampling rate: 48000
------------------------------------
------- Loading ref_glx.so -------
LoadLibrary("ref_glx.so"): can't open /etc/ufo.conf - setting search path to .
LoadLibrary("ref_glx.so") failed: libSDL_ttf-2.0.so.0: cannot open shared object                                                                           file: No such file or directory
Dumped console text to /root/.ufoai/base/gl_debug.txt.
recursive shutdown
Error: Couldn't initialize OpenGL renderer!
Consult gl_debug.txt for further information.

So, what can be the problem? Ive trying googling it and got no results. Also can find any info about that "libSDL_ttf-2.0.so.0" library.

I have a 7600GT with latest drivers properly installed. Maybe is becouse Im trying to run it on a 64 bits system? Should I give up on the installer and try to compile the game from the source?

Any help will be much apreciated. Being an old fan of X-COM series, Im really looking forward to play this game. So please help me here!

[Bandobras]

For the sound, if there will be any problems try changing it to sdl  (in the Options menu) and changin the sampling rate.

For video you can try

  ./ufo +set vid_ref sdl

but probably the lack of  libSDL_ttf is to blame. Just install it.

BTW, does quake2 run on your machine?

[Elias_Maluco]

but probably the lack of libSDL_ttf is to blame. Just install it.  

BTW, does quake2 run on your machine?

Well, never tried it. I will try insatlling this lib, thanks for your help.

[Elias_Maluco]

Ok, just installed "libSDL_ttf-2.0.so.0", compiled from source. However, Im still getting the same error. Any more ideas? Maybe I found a bug?

[Elias_Maluco]

Oh, forget about it. I will just install the windows version. This will be just another entry in my forever growing list of software I cat get  to work in linux. Just has a side note: is silly to think that linux will ever be popular as a desktop OS when is so fucking hard to get anything working on it.

Sometimes I love linux, sometimes I just wish I could install a program and get it working in less then 5 hours and 50 different errors(if I can get it to work at all, of course).

[Vla]

Right, if something does not work, blame the Operation System.

[Bandobras]

Please no flamewars here! Everybody knows Linux is the best.

As for your problems, you'll be dissapointed by the quality of the windows RC3 (we've made sure win does not get any unfair advantage ). Perhaps compile SVN trunk yourself on Linux, or try RC4 when it comes out? I the problems stem from some 64bit conflicts of the libs, compilation will surely help...