Installing on Linux

Tanner · Post by **Tanner** » Wed Feb 22, 2006 2:23 am

Hi all,

Could one help me install on linux? When I try to install I get:

Could not download library libcurl.so.3.
/tmp/msg.1970 (END)

This is DSL mind you....

-Tanner

A Meteorite · Post by **A Meteorite** » Wed Feb 22, 2006 4:35 am

Is this with apt-get or what?

Tanner · Post by **Tanner** » Wed Feb 22, 2006 12:32 pm

A Meteorite wrote:Is this with apt-get or what?

apt-get?

-Tanner

JPT · Post by **JPT** » Wed Feb 22, 2006 1:04 pm

Looks like he used cvs.
APT gives different errors.

Tanner · Post by **Tanner** » Wed Feb 22, 2006 1:19 pm

JPT wrote:Looks like he used cvs.
APT gives different errors.

I downloaded the one from this which would be this one.

-Tanner

JPT · Post by **JPT** » Wed Feb 22, 2006 1:46 pm

huh ?

You don't have to install it.
You can run it after extracting it.

Death Barrel · Post by **Death Barrel** » Wed Feb 22, 2006 4:44 pm

Tanner wrote:Hi all,

Could one help me install on linux? When I try to install I get:
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Could not download library libcurl.so.3.
/tmp/msg.1970 (END)
This is DSL mind you....

-Tanner

sounds like you are running an rpm based distro and you need the following dependency: library libcurl.so.3.

google search for it.

Post by **DTRemenak** » Wed Feb 22, 2006 9:19 pm

As the page you linked to says:

Please give feedback to AKAQuinn AT hotmail.com if it doesn't (or does) work.

We do not maintain the Obelisk packages, the Obelisk maintainer does. Note that the download link links to /suparun/ (obelisk used to be called suparun) not /bzflag/.

Longhair · Post by **Longhair** » Thu Feb 23, 2006 1:53 pm

If you just want to install and play it, check with your distribution's package repository. It's probably in there. Then you'll use a package manager to install it. YUM works for Fedora and Yellow Dog, APT for Debian based distros, Emerge for Gentoo....

It's much easier than compiling from source yourself. (although I do compile it from CVS source, but I get the advantage of having all the new goodies before the official release)

Tropican8 · Post by **Tropican8** » Thu Feb 23, 2006 9:20 pm

Longhair wrote:APT for Debian based distros

Whatever you do, please don't use the BZFlag build in Debian. Its a bad build and has been the cause of many honest players being accused of cheating.

There are many people here who can post a working .deb if its needed

Tanner · Post by **Tanner** » Fri Feb 24, 2006 12:31 pm

My Linux is DSL (Damn Small Linux). I don't think it's ever been tried to BZ to go onto that.

-Tanner

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