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Title: Starting simutrans from Linux Mint 12
Post by: erskie on March 10, 2012, 09:44:56 PM
Dear All,

Have not played for a few years, am am looking forward to trying the latest version.

Previously played on Linux, with no issues. However, now after downloading, de-compressing and trying to run simutrans (on a new installation of Linux Mint 12) I get a message that:

"  The program 'simutrans' is currently not installed.  You can install it by typing: sudo apt-get install simutrans"

..... very odd.

Installing from the Ubuntu repository works fine, but of course that is a much older version.

Any suggestions as to what I might be doing wrong?

Google and forum searches have not turned anything up yet - but maybe I am not looking in the right places!

Thank you in advance,

erskie
Title: Re: Starting simutrans from Linux Mint 12
Post by: kierongreen on March 10, 2012, 10:19:56 PM
What happens if you etract binary and pakset into same directory, open terminal, change to that directory and type ./simutrans ?
Title: Re: Starting simutrans from Linux Mint 12
Post by: erskie on March 10, 2012, 11:30:26 PM
That is what I do - and that is when I get that error message "The program 'simutrans' is currently not installed.  You can install it by typing: sudo apt-get install simutrans"

The binary is marked as executable, so it is really odd....
Title: Re: Starting simutrans from Linux Mint 12
Post by: kierongreen on March 11, 2012, 12:00:00 AM
Are you sure you are typing ./simutrans and not simutrans?
Title: Re: Starting simutrans from Linux Mint 12
Post by: Sybill on March 11, 2012, 12:13:49 AM
I'm also a Linux Mint user, and I have it installed in /usr/local/games. Did you try to start it with the complete path to the binary, like (in my case) /usr/local/games/simutrans/simutrans ? This should work from every location. The program has a different name if you're using a nightly version, something like sim-gcc4 for example.
There was a problem in one version with the rights management, so I had to do a chmod on the pak folder for pak64, but the program should start anyway, only the pakset isn't shown.
Title: Re: Starting simutrans from Linux Mint 12
Post by: kierongreen on March 11, 2012, 09:15:49 AM
I wouldn't recommend manually installing into /usr/local on a system with package management - I put my development version into ~/simutrans (so running it full path is ~/simutrans/simutrans , or /home/kieron/simutrans/simutrans ). I didn't know nightly builds had a different name - if so use the name Sybil suggests when running ( i.e. ~/simutrans/sim-gcc4 )
Title: Re: Starting simutrans from Linux Mint 12
Post by: erskie on March 11, 2012, 02:41:50 PM
Thank you for the advice - still no luck.

I might try using the version from the respository, and then replacing all the files with the newer versions. I hope that works!

Erskie
Title: Re: Starting simutrans from Linux Mint 12 - semi-fixed!
Post by: erskie on March 11, 2012, 03:05:59 PM
Dear All,

Thank you for the advice. In the end I found a newer .deb @ http://ftp.br.debian.org/debian/pool/main/s/simutrans/  which allows me to get to at least 111.0, which will have to do! No idea why the usual download-extract-run method did not work in this case.

If anyone would happen to know where there might be a .deb for 111.2, I would appreciate it. Obviously I am fairly noobish at linux, or else I would offer to make one....

Sorry,

Erskie
Title: Re: Starting simutrans from Linux Mint 12
Post by: deek on May 15, 2012, 01:49:38 AM
I had the same problem with ubuntu 12.04. Solved it by installing WINE and installing the windows version of Simutrans 111.2.2
Title: Re: Starting simutrans from Linux Mint 12
Post by: mEGa on May 15, 2012, 03:46:32 PM
If you have a 32 bits version of Ubuntu 12.04, you can use latest version of binary file for linux.
If you have installed the "stable" package of Sinutrans for this version of Ubuntu, the sdl-library dependance is according.
So you just download zip file, unzip in your favorite repository, put pakset in the root of this repository, change rights and permissions of ./simutrans binary file.
So, You can now run this last version with no problem (it is what I do )