cannot emerge openlierox [SOLVED]

randal1 · Last edited by randal1 on Sat Mar 03, 2007 11:43 am; edited 1 time in total

Hi All,

I am trying to install OpenLieroX, but when I run the emerge command I see the following:

alex.blackbit · Advocate Joined: 26 Jul 2005 Posts: 2397

hmm, maybe something's wrong with the file.
try

randal1 · Posted: Tue Feb 27, 2007 6:00 pm Post subject:

Hi

I have tried this. Here is the output:

alex.blackbit · Advocate Joined: 26 Jul 2005 Posts: 2397

okay, so try to unzip it somewhere in a temp directory.
the output of emerge says maybe it is a archive without end...

randal1 · Posted: Tue Feb 27, 2007 6:13 pm Post subject:

Thanks.

I just tried that...it won't extract. Error using ark is "An error occurred while trying to open the archive". This is the second time I have downloaded it so I hope it's not an issue with the file during transit.

Any ideas?

/albert · n00b Joined: 17 Jan 2005 Posts: 58

It realy seems that your downloaded zip is corrupt.

I have tested the ebuild again here, after I deleted everything from /usr/portage/distfiles/, and it downloads all the needed files correctly and works good.

Check, if the zip is exactly 16,500,937 bytes big.
It should have the following md5sum:
f6abb2c3939e747ca77b75ccc4cef070 another_lx_pack_2007_01_05.zip
(Check this by 'md5sum [zip-file]'.)

If this is not the case on your system, simply delete the file and redownload it (or just start emerging the ebuild, it should be downloaded automatically).

/albert · n00b Joined: 17 Jan 2005 Posts: 58

Note: Delete the file first in every case.

alex.blackbit · Advocate Joined: 26 Jul 2005 Posts: 2397

i can extract it normally. :roll:

randal1 · Posted: Wed Feb 28, 2007 6:42 pm Post subject:

cool i redownloaded it and tried again and it installed

Now I'm getting an error when trying to play online:

"Could not load the level '/levels/CastleStrike.lxl" whenever i try and play a game.

Any idea how I can get the levels to load properly?

Thanks

/albert · n00b Joined: 17 Jan 2005 Posts: 58

Does this only occurs, if you play online and if the hoster used the game CasteStrike?
Do you play the game as a normal user (not as root) and do you have read access to /usr/share/games/? (That means, you have to be in games-group.)

Take a look into the file ~/.OpenLieroX/cfg/options.cfg. There is a section [FileHandling] which should look like this:

randal1 · Posted: Wed Feb 28, 2007 7:04 pm Post subject:

Hi!

This occurs with any level on network play (as far as I have tested). I can play local play fine.

My file had:

/albert · n00b Joined: 17 Jan 2005 Posts: 58

Hm not realy, I don't see any errors in the output.

Also, I don't ever heard of a bug like this before.

The error message you described ("Could not load the level '/levels/CastleStrike.lxl'") is displayed in a message box?
Are you sure you can also play exactly this map in local play?
(Btw., OpenLieroX don't care about case sensity in filenames, so it makes no difference if it is /usr/share/games/OpenLieroX or /usr/share/games/openlierox or perhaps also /USR/SHarE/GaMeS/oPENLIEROX; this was made to keep compatibility with the windows version.)

Can you give me some more details about your system? (GCC version, architecture (CPU), HawkNL-version, what else could be important...)
I would like to fix this bug (if it is realy one and don't depends on some strange configuration of your system

) for the next release.

randal1 · Posted: Wed Feb 28, 2007 7:53 pm Post subject:

No, I cannot play that map (or any of the maps that error) in local play. I do have a selection of maps, but not the ones that are causing the issue. My guess is that I am missing the level files?

/albert · n00b Joined: 17 Jan 2005 Posts: 58

That is again more strange than before.

The game will list only that maps (in Local Play), which are locally available (which it founds in any levels/ subdir), it also makes a check for each one, if it is readable and the header of the file is correct.
(Btw., in Net Play, if the by the hoster selected map is not available locally, it will show the name of it in red letters.)

Which error do you get in Local Play when selecting some of these maps? Again the same, that the map cannot be found?
Which maps have you tried till now and which of them doesn't work?

My first and only explanation is, that some files are corrupt there (but shouldn't unzip make a CRC check of each file?). Perhaps your unzip is broken someway.

(That would explain the two failured tries before.)
Perhaps, download the main pack (lx056...) again manually (from http://openlierox.sourceforge.net ) and extract all the files directly to ~/.OpenLieroX (so that you get a subdir levels/ there which also includes CastlyStrike.lxl).

randal1 · Posted: Thu Mar 01, 2007 12:09 pm Post subject:

that did it! thanks for your help! this game is amazing!

/albert · n00b Joined: 17 Jan 2005 Posts: 58

I found a bug in the ebuild, which seems (possibly) to be also the source of your problems.

As the game does not care about case sensity in filenames (to prevent windows-compatibility), some of the additional levels in the packs went into the directory "Levels", but there was also the directory "levels". As the game selects the first dir it found, one of these dirs will always be ignored.
(Btw., you don't have this problem, if you add the files to another searchpaths, because it will search all the searchpaths seperatly.)

I already uploaded a fixed ebuild (which merges Levels and levels) into the bugtracker ( https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=164009 ) or you can download it from the website ( http://openlierox.sourceforge.net/ ).

(PS: Put "[RESOLVED]" into the title of the thread, if you think it is resolved now.

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