Installing from source on Ubuntu

[Ronan]

I am trying to build Simutrans from the svn source. Compiling is easy enough but after putting the executable and the pak in the simutrans folder, I hit a problem: Simutrans won't start and aborts with

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FATAL ERROR: simmain::main()
Unable to load any language files
*** PLEASE INSTALL PROPER BASE FILES ***


I think I have all the files I need, but I don't understand where they should be put.

[An_dz]

This error seems to be that there's no .tab files on "Simutrans/text" folder, you can download them at Simutranslator.

There's any .tab file on this folder?

[Ronan]

That was it, thanks! (I thought the message referred to the .tab files from pak64.)

Did I miss the doc where this is explained?

[Dwachs]

Glad you managed this

Here is the Q&A about language files:

http://forum.simutrans.com/index.php?topic=2894.0

If you copy your self-compiled executable in the folder, where you installed a pre-compiled simutrans version everything should work, too.