Wesnoth problem (no executable, and I'm in the games group)

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cholerajojo · Post by **cholerajojo** » Thu Dec 22, 2005 1:01 am

I've tried emerging Wesnoth with almost every conceivable combination of USE flags, and there still isn't any wesnoth executable in /usr/games/bin. What's going on? I can get executables for wesnothd, the wesnoth editor, etc., but not for actually launching Wesnoth. Any ideas?

mark_alec · Post by **mark_alec** » Thu Dec 22, 2005 1:08 am

The wesnoth executable should be in /usr/games/bin. If you are not in the games group however, you will not be able to run it. As root "gpasswd -a <user> games" then try running wesnoth.

cholerajojo · Post by **cholerajojo** » Thu Dec 22, 2005 1:31 am

i read emerge notes, thank you. i am in the games group, but that doesn't mean anything because, as i already said, wesnoth isn't in /usr/games/bin/. please actually read posts before giving knee-jerk responses.

EDIT: btw, i am running amd64 gentoo with ~amd64 and CFLAGS="-march=k8 -O3 -pipe"

cholerajojo · Post by **cholerajojo** » Sat Dec 24, 2005 11:12 pm

Using the precompiled x86 binary from Wesnoth's site works fine, so I suppose that is a sort of "fix" for this problem. Nevertheless, the fact remains that Wesnoth does not place a wesnoth executable file in /usr/games/bin, at least not on amd64 systems. Someone really ought to look into that.

trinitrotoluene · Post by **trinitrotoluene** » Sun Dec 25, 2005 6:07 am

Odd. I've been installing wesnoth since .8 versions on my AMD64.

I know you said you tried all the USE flag combos, but just to make sure, you did it without -server and -tools?

When you emerge do you see it installing files anywhere else? Are you getting stuff in /usr/share/games/wesnoth?

cholerajojo · Post by **cholerajojo** » Sun Dec 25, 2005 10:45 pm

Yeah, I tried those flag combinations. To be sure, I just tried it again, and I'm still getting the same weird problem.

And yeah, I'm getting everything that should be installed (e.g., files in /usr/share/games/wesnoth) except for the file called wesnoth in /usr/games/bin. It's really weird. I'm wondering if it's a problem that only pops up if one is newly installing the game rather than upgrading from an earlier version? I dunno.

lightbulbjim · Post by **lightbulbjim** » Sun Jan 01, 2006 12:58 am

Ah, so it's not just me.

I ran "emerge wesnoth" as well and I'm getting exactly the same problem. Looks like it installs fine - but no binary. I'm guessing it's either a) a bug in the ebuild or b) a compatibility problem with amd64.

If anyone works it out please post.

cholerajojo · Post by **cholerajojo** » Wed Jan 04, 2006 8:43 am

Oh, thank the forces of light, I thought I was losing my mind.

Woodpecker · Post by **Woodpecker** » Sun Jan 08, 2006 5:35 pm

I tried to install it today, too. No executable either, but I have an x86.

JoeDuncan · Post by **JoeDuncan** » Fri Mar 03, 2006 3:06 am

I'm having the same problem on x86.

Has there been a solution to this yet?

01mf02 · Post by **01mf02** » Fri Mar 03, 2006 3:38 pm

Which version do you all use? I am running Wesnoth 1.0.2 on AMD64 fine.

Sharak · Post by **Sharak** » Fri Mar 17, 2006 10:03 am

Got the same problem, Wesnoth 1.0.2, x86.

Strowi · Post by **Strowi** » Fri Mar 17, 2006 10:46 am

hi all,

i'm running amd64, and wesnoth runs just fine:

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strowi@Sleipnir ~ $ emerge -pv wesnoth

These are the packages that I would merge, in order:

Calculating dependencies ...done!
[ebuild   R   ] games-strategy/wesnoth-1.0.2  -dedicated -editor -gnome +kde -lite +nls -server* -tools 0 kB

strowi@Sleipnir ~ $ which wesnoth
/usr/games/bin/wesnoth

can someone please post output of "emerge -pv wesnoth" and emerge info?
are you all using CFLAGS="-O3" ?

dr_nailz · Post by **dr_nailz** » Tue May 23, 2006 5:41 am

I had the same problem with these flags:

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[ebuild   R   ] games-strategy/wesnoth-1.0.2  +dedicated -editor -gnome +kde -lite +nls -server -tools 0 kB

Then I removed 'dedicated':

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[ebuild   R   ] games-strategy/wesnoth-1.0.2  -dedicated -editor -gnome +kde -lite +nls -server -tools 0 kB

and it worked fine. I guess it didn't mean what I thought it did ("include the option for running a dedicated server"), the only binary installed was 'wmlxgettext'.

Did you try this?

(I'm not using amd64)

energyman76b · Post by **energyman76b** » Tue May 23, 2006 6:45 pm

whereis wesnoth
wesnoth: /usr/games/bin/wesnoth /usr/share/man/man6/wesnoth.6.gz

search wesnoth
[ Results for search key : wesnoth ]
[ Applications found : 1 ]

* games-strategy/wesnoth
Latest version available: 1.1.2a
Latest version installed: 1.1.2a
Size of downloaded files: 183,676 kB
Homepage: http://www.wesnoth.org/
Description: A fantasy turn-based strategy game
License: GPL-2

but every other wesnoth version installed into /usr/games/bin too.

Is /usr/games/bin in your PATH?

gr8fuljames · Post by **gr8fuljames** » Mon Jan 01, 2007 10:04 pm

I ran "gpasswd -a <user> games" and still could not run the executable. After looking around the owner of
/usr/games/ was myself but the owner of /usr/share/games/ was root. after changing that it worked.