Pioneer - Ubuntu help :-)

[Thrasher]

Hello everyone, I'm trying to get Pioneer running on my ubuntu machine, downloaded the pre-build files from the website and extracted them. How do I actually get the game to run ?? I get a pioneer file but clicking on it does nothing ? I suspect I've made a silly mistake, but I thought it would be as simple as downloading it and extracting it. Feel free to flail me alive for what will no doubt be an obvious error. thank you,

[fluffyfreak]

That should be all that you need to do, howevr it might be failing to launch due to missing libraries or something. Try running it from a terminal and seeing if it complains about anything.The other thing to check is that it will have created (or will have tried to create) a folder at ~/.pioneer with the files output.txt and opengl.txt which may also contain useful information about what has gone wrong.

[Thrasher]

I've tried running it from terminal and it just said " no command 'pioneer' found "pioneer " is in yellow ? If that means anything ?

[fluffyfreak]

hmm. Ok from the top then, which build is that you downloaded? The Linux 64 or 32 bit build from[/url] our page? Did you extract it on the command line something like this? mkdir pioneercd pioneertar -vxjf /pioneer-20160316-linux32.tar.bz2 and it has the following items in the folder? AUTHORS.txtChangelog.txtCOMPILING.txtdatalicensesmodelcompilerModelviewer.txtpioneerQuickstart.txtSAVEBUMP.txt All good so far?

[Thrasher]

I extracted it using the automatic extraction tool within ubuntu. Yeah, all those files are in the folder - which is encouraging, thank you for your help so far

[fluffyfreak]

Ok if you right click on the "pioneer" programa nd open properties, in the Permissions tab is it set to allow executing it as a program? or from the terminal do ls -l pioneer and see what permissions it has, hopefully they'll be something like "-rwxr-xr-x" If it's not then run "chmod 777 pioneer" and give it permission to execute.

[Thrasher]

Ok if you right click on the "pioneer" programa nd open properties, in the Permissions tab is it set to allow executing it as a program? or from the terminal do and see what permissions it has, hopefully they'll be something like "-rwxr-xr-x" If it's not then run "chmod 777 pioneer" and give it permission to execute.Yeah, its executable as a programe

[fluffyfreak]

I dunno then, you're running it like ./pioneer yes?

[Thrasher]

I dunno then, you're running it like ./pioneer yes?you might have to explain what that means mate - sorry.

[fluffyfreak]

as in within the terminal you're literally just typing "./pioneer"

[Thrasher]

as in within the terminal you're literally just typing "./pioneer" :)Its in a pioneer directory I created on desktop

[fluffyfreak]

Right, and you've opened the terminal window and navigated to that folder?Then typed "./pioneer" to run the game from within that folder? And it still says " no command 'pioneer' found"?

[impaktor]

Thrasher: when you run a command from the terminal, the system must know it's path if it is not in one of the pre-defined folders like /usr/bin, or /bin/. Thus, you must go to the pioneer folder, make sure you're in it by typing "ls" and check that the files are there then type: "./pioneer". The dot means "here" just like ".." means "one folder up". This is why simply saying "pioneer" will not work since that is indeed not a valid command, unless you tell the system where to find it.

[fluffyfreak]

I've prodded our IRC channel to see if anyone has any idea but I'm not sure what the issue might be right now.

[Thrasher]

Right.....ive tried executing it from terminal in the correct directory using ./pioneer. It spat out paul@paul-Satellite-L350:~/Desktop/pioneer/pioneer-20160316-linux32$ ./pioneer./pioneer: /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libstdc++.so.6: version `CXXABI_1.3.8' not found (required by ./pioneer)./pioneer: /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libstdc++.so.6: version `GLIBCXX_3.4.20' not found (required by ./pioneer) So something is missing !!

[Thrasher]

I've prodded our IRC channel to see if anyone has any idea but I'm not sure what the issue might be right now. Thank you.

[fluffyfreak]

Ah I think that was answered in this post: http://spacesimcentral.com/ssc/topic/5456-pioneer-does-not-run-under-kubuntu-1404/?p=57476[/url]

[Thrasher]

Ah I think that was answered in this post: http://spacesimcentral.com/ssc/topic/5456-pioneer-does-not-run-under-kubuntu-1404/?p=57476[/url] it now ! Fingers crossed.

[Thrasher]

Right.....we have progress  It now boots A BIT System Name: LinuxHost Name: paul-Satellite-L350Release(Kernel) Version: 3.13.0-83-genericKernel Build Timestamp: #127-Ubuntu SMP Fri Mar 11 00:26:47 UTC 2016Machine Arch: i686Domain Name: (none)SDL Version 2.0.3Failed to set video mode. (Couldn't find matching GLX visual). Re-trying without multisampling.Failed to set video mode. (Could not create GL context). Re-trying with 16-bit depth bufferFailed to set video mode. (Couldn't find matching GLX visual). Re-trying with 16-bit depth buffer and no multisamplingerror: Failed to set video mode: Could not create GL context

[fluffyfreak]

Ah good ok so you have a laptop?This one http://www.toshiba.co.uk/discontinued-products/satellite-l350-170/?[/url] Do you have the latest drivers for it?It should have created those files I was talking about before, in the hidden pioneer folder within your home folder, the one called "opengl.txt" should tell us a bit about your GPU which I guess is one of these -> http://www.notebookcheck.net/Intel-Graphics-Media-Accelerator-GMA-4500M.20379.0.html[/url]