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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,

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.

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

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?

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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"?

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.

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.

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 !!

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.

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]

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.

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

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]