Anyone help me? Suse 9.1: I want Targetware

I don't know where to begin. I get tarred and gzipped files and I don't know WHAT THE HELL TO DO WITH EM EVEN.

I mean, if they was in that RPM format, I might be able to manage installin the fuckin thing. But I am a doh head and can't deal with gzipped gunzipped tarred and tarred tar thingies.
Anyone wants to assist, I can be writ at
bradmbrown@yahoo.com
[exec: I know, I know.......]

 

If it's a source package, you usually extract the tar archive .... like so

tar xvf tarfile.tar

This will extract the contents of the archive into your current working directory.

Then you run

./configure

then

make

and then (you usually need root permissions for that)

make install

 

Okay, um. Then after the tar -xvf, does it install into the correct paths? I have a real problen with the correct paths. I get shit writ all over my HDD when I screw with this OS.
Then I gotta deal with dependencies, which is kinda why I like RPM because it makes a listy of things that will fuck me up UNLESS I have them FIRST. SO I get to deal with that first, which is okay, becuase it is easier than doin a whole bunch more [I only HALF know how to do without rpm...].

 

Normally when you run ./configure it prepares the thingy to be installed in some default place chosen by the developers. If you wish to install it to some other place you can add the option --prefix=/home/some_directory to the ./configure line.

./configure --prefix=/blah/blergh

Can't help ya with the dependencies. There's almost always trouble with that.

 

you dont need to install the tw engine and its not a source. Just unpack it and run
./targetware
from the directory where you unpacked it. but be ready to download the mods. in case of rabaul its some 140megs... You download them directly from the game (of course the possibility to download them separately exists as well)

if you need some more help, go to tagetware forum, ppl there will help you:
web.targetrabaul.com and click the forum link

 

The MISSING DEPENDENCY thingie:
libgmp.so.3
[the first...]

 

Errrrr. rrrrrr
uhn.
gettin the fucccc kk in things now... c c called
'gmp
Version: 4.1.2-2'

 

Fuck. um bastards. Okay bastsrds, um, next missing bastard dependency bastard thingie fuck.
[bastards]
libopenal.so.0

 

Okay, so now are YaSTing libopenal-0.0.6-1.i386.rpm
bastards

 

now to get libvorbisfile.so.0
bastards

 

good, nice to see your progress. i think targetware forums has some discussions about those dependancies.

btw redant..here is p-38 guncam for you from TR:
http://www.saunalahti.fi/ladoga/misc/zekekill9.avi

See how it hovers flaps out? Wasn't hard to out turn that zeke.

 

I fuckin' can't believe the depencies on the fuckin dependencies. I am ready to go kick someone's dog.
I got a fuckin TREE of dependencies. And every fuckin' time I find YARPM [Yet Another RPM] with the fuckin module I need because the another needs it, there is another one [or 5] THAT one needs.
And I thought I was a smart guy when I made me a nice VANILLA Suse Lunux.

 

libvorbisfile.so.0

What the fuck? I used YaST and stuck fuckin libvorbis 1.something.
Now I got to get libvorbisfile.so.0. Which is WITH libfuckinvorbis, right?
What the fuck am I doin wrong?
Don't tell me to rtfm. I AM rtfming. More than I want to, more than I like.
This is SO typical of the mess that unix IS and always HAS BEEN. Yes, I am using it, yes, there is NO turning back. YES, I am gonna get it right, eventually. Yes I am gonna get used to it.
But right now it is fresh, and it is a puzzle that EASILY rivals my first run-ins with old IBMDOS, way back when I was a wee baby.

 

In my Knoppix (Debian) box, libvorbisfile library is provided by "libvorbisfile3" package. BTW, I don't know much about SuSE, but the "dependency hell" problem is addressed in most distributions. When you ask the package manager to install a package, normally it automatically installs needed packages to resolve dependencies.

TW runs great in Linux, noticeabily better than in Windows, In fact, with my 500MHz machine I only can play in Linux!

greetings

 

I am amazed also. Even loaded up with a resource hogging desktop Linux rocks.
I am running 333 mHz and just loving it.

None of my friends are impressed when I show them how well this box can handle 270 command prompts ALL sharing the CPU and all being nice and PRE-EMPTIVE while doing some real gnarly crunching.

But the are impressed when I show them how wonderfully the thing can handle a flight sim [now if only I could get the fuckin Joystick setup so I could do a bit more than ground-loops at 60fps]

 

And while I am on a rant:
Why is there no Internet Explorer for Xwindows?
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Oh. LOL

 

because firefox is so much better

 

You have any more? I really liked that one with the Beaufighter.

 

My question was like:
Why is there no bear fur in my quilt?
How come ya never see a dog team pulling a motor home?
Is there pork-free Chinese Take-out?
If the guys at MS tried to port IE so it works with linux, I have a feelin' we would just be gettin IE4.0 in ANSI or TTY mode.
I am gonna go see if I can stick firefox in here... I didn't like it too much in Windows, but that was window's fault [no pun intended].
I got netscape in this and I hate it as much as I hated it in Windows.
Konqueror ain't bad, it does everything I want it to and is only as fancy as I can tolerate anyways.

 

http://www.saunalahti.fi/ladoga/misc/