I installed Eternal-Lands an"no icon""installed using yumd now I'm lost

[Nickmorgan19457]

I did the YUM install thing with the Eternal Lands RPM, it completed. Now I can't run the program, because I can't find out how to run it. Was there somthing else I was supposed to do after it said Complete at the end or the install process? Or how do I run the programs. Any help will be appreciated.

[bob]

You can type 'whereis eternal-lands' and see the response. Might be in /usr/bin, in which case there's probably an icon and listing under Games. Or, if in /usr/bin, you can start it by just typing the name (I assume it's eternal-lands). If it's elsewhere, you'd have to 'cd' to where it's located and start it by "./eternal-lands" (or whatever the name is).

[Nickmorgan19457]

Thank you for your response, but it's not that I can't find the folders and suchs, I already know its in there. I can't figure out how to run the god damn program.

[bob]

Okay, open a terminal and:
"cd /directory/programname" which gets you into the program, then:
"./programname" If the type is too small to see it, that's a period before the "/"
That should launch the program.

So, let's say you've found it in /usr/local - and the program name is "eternal_lands" (you're going to have to substitute the right name, of course) - well then you'd open a terminal and type this:
"cd /usr/local/eternal_lands"
Then you'd type:
"./eternal_lands"
and the program should launch.

[Nickmorgan19457]

*sighs* I just tried that one. I got this:

[nick@localhost bin]$ ./eternallands
logs and config file are at /home/nick/.elc/
./eternallands: line 7:  3653 Illegal instruction     ./el.x86.linux.bin

[u-noneinc-s]

I couldn't get it to work either, but I did get farther than you did. What my message said was something
to the extent of "this version is no longer supported" and to go to the website. I did get a garbled printout
(but with a clear log of the same text)...

Hi, and welcome to Eternal Lands! If you're new to the game and need help, please read the newbie helper guides on
the main website. If you would rather learn by doing, talk to the Tutorial NPC, which is at
the start point. In addition to that, you can type #help_me and your question to get a live
response if there are helpers online. Click on the screen to continue!

and the error message followed (but wasn't logged).

[Antifreeze]

I just gave Eternal Lands a go myself, looked kinda fun....

I downloaded the binary package, unzipped it and then downloaded the updates, unzipped those then tried running the binary.

I was hit immediately with a dependency issue. Missing Libstdioc++.so.5 Ok, so I decided to see if I could get the missing files.. no Version 5 for C++ in the repos.

Ok, no dice there, so I decided to try compiling my own binaries. I downloaded the source code, the latest version in their cvs is several versions out of date. But I thought I'd give it a try none the less.

After following the instructions in their read me, and commenting out the support for windows.. I renamed the makefile.linux to makefile, then ran did a 'make clean && make'

Syntax errors galore.
Warnings up the wazoo.
Missing paths, missing headers.. you get the idea. It wasn't pretty.

Now, keep in mind, up until a few months ago I didn't even know how to re-compile a program, much less edit header files. So my desire to spend a sleepless night wading through this games code, trying to fix it's broken source wasn't high on my priority list. Needless to say my 'Eternal Lands' directory, as well as 'ELSource' both found their way into my recycle bin.

Anyway, maybe if I'm feeling adventurous tomorrow, I'll download the win binaries and try them under wine.

[Nickmorgan19457]

I've tired installing it 8 times, none of which worked. So, like the lazy bastard I am, I'm giving up. Thanks for your help. Besides, my computer sucks, if it did run on my 8 year old box of doom (500Mhz AMD, 12gig HD, somthin like 6 byets of ram) it would run very very poorly. I'll just wait for the non beta version to be realeased. Thanks again.

[Jman]

I got Eternal Lands to work on Fedora. Have since cut the addiction and haven't played for a while.

If I recall correctly you needed compat-libstdc++-33 package for their precompiled package to work.

If you do get the not latest error, you have to apply the updates from the Eternal Lands site. The rpms that I know of lag too far behind to work.

[Antifreeze]

Thanks for the tip Jman!

Got it working as well, and must admit, I'm already hooked.. *sigh* yet another addiction... I can tell this is going to be just like ever-crack....