my first day on linux so pls don't burn me

[crabdog]

Hi all. I've played this game on windows before and thought it was pretty cool. Today I thought I'd have a go at Linux to see what all the fuss is about and I remembered this game having a linux client.

I first loaded up Ubuntu (nice distro) and I can't remember how now but I got the installer working. However, now I'm using PCLinuxOS and cannot get the launcher to run at all.

Can anyone confirm whether or not I can run Regnum on this OS? If so, could you provide a quick rundown on how to do it?

Thanks in advance and sorry if this has been posted before but I couldn't find any info from searching the forum.

[arlick]

Hi all. I've played this game on windows before and thought it was pretty cool. Today I thought I'd have a go at Linux to see what all the fuss is about and I remembered this game having a linux client.

I first loaded up Ubuntu (nice distro) and I can't remember how now but I got the installer working. However, now I'm using PCLinuxOS and cannot get the launcher to run at all.

Can anyone confirm whether or not I can run Regnum on this OS? If so, could you provide a quick rundown on how to do it?

Thanks in advance and sorry if this has been posted before but I couldn't find any info from searching the forum.

see that:

http://www.regnumonline.com.ar/forum/showthread.php?t=2419

most ppl in the game use ubuntu, im not, i use openSuSE 10.2

of course u can run it in ubuntu.
whats your problem? u dont know how to run the game?

[crabdog]

But you see, I'm not trying to run it in Ubuntu...I'm using PCLinuxOS...

[arlick]

But you see, I'm not trying to run it in Ubuntu...I'm using PCLinuxOS...

oh sorry, i dont know that its a distro :lol:

well... what is it based? debian? rpm? similar to slack? a mutant?
other?

[Froste]

Hello, thought I'd give you some basic linux knowledge: while ubuntu and pclinuxos are different operating systems technically, they are both gnu/linux, they both run the same gnu programs that make up the surrounding layer of stuff around the same kernel (linux), so a program that runs on one linux will always be able to run on another - it's a little more complex than that, but that's the gist of it

now I don't know what you've done already, so I'll just talk to you like a newbie, so don't get offended

When you download the launcher it's a tar archive compressed with gzip (.tar.gz), you have to unpack the file inside this archive, and if you don't know how to navigate in console i'm just going to give you straight instructions, if you do know, then you'll know which parts you can skip:

open a terminal, make sure you have the program called wget by typing wget, if it says no command found you'll have to install this (there should be a package called wget in your package management, whichever you use)

type:

mkdir regnum
cd regnum
wget http://www.regnumonline.com.ar/downloads/files/rolauncher.tar.gz

(if right click this url in the browser and choose "copy link address" or something like that, then hit middle mouse button in the terminal, and it will copy the url into the terminal, so you don't have to type it all out, middle mouse is the common linux way of copying text you've marked up)

tar zxvf rolauncher.tar.gz
./rolauncher


now assuming you've already done all this, and the launcher still won't work, it will usually say something in the terminal when it fails, what does it say?

[crabdog]

Thanks Froste for the information. Here's the message I got in the Konsole:

--18:48:14-- http://www.regnumonline.com.ar/downl...auncher.tar.gz
=> `downl...auncher.tar.gz'
Resolving www.regnumonline.com.ar... 212.214.41.26
Connecting to www.regnumonline.com.ar|212.214.41.26|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 404 Not Found
18:48:15 ERROR 404: Not Found.

:confused2: i think i did everything right ^^

[arlick]

Thanks Froste for the information. Here's the message I got in the Konsole:

--18:48:14-- http://www.regnumonline.com.ar/downl...auncher.tar.gz
=> `downl...auncher.tar.gz'
Resolving www.regnumonline.com.ar... 212.214.41.26
Connecting to www.regnumonline.com.ar|212.214.41.26|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 404 Not Found
18:48:15 ERROR 404: Not Found.

:confused2: i think i did everything right ^^

write this


wget http://www.regnumonline.com.ar/downloads/files/rolauncher.tar.gz

[crabdog]

Thanks arlick, that worked but when I run the launcher nothing happens oO.

Ahh It's not important because I will probably switch back to Ubuntu anyway - although I'm kind of liking this distro also. Maybe I'll try a triple boot system =x

[arlick]

Thanks arlick, that worked but when I run the launcher nothing happens oO.

Ahh It's not important because I will probably switch back to Ubuntu anyway - although I'm kind of liking this distro also. Maybe I'll try a triple boot system =x

whats wrong with the launcher?

[crabdog]

What's wrong with the launcher? Nothing now..because I've just moved back to Ubuntu and the launcher is working again.

But now it's telling me my video card is unsupported zzzzzzz. Here's a quick rundown on my system specs:

C2D E4300 @ 2.4ghz
Asus Nvidia EN7900GT
2 x 1GB Kingston value DDR2 800

So what's next?

[arlick]

What's wrong with the launcher? Nothing now..because I've just moved back to Ubuntu and the launcher is working again.

But now it's telling me my video card is unsupported zzzzzzz. Here's a quick rundown on my system specs:

C2D E4300 @ 2.4ghz
Asus Nvidia EN7900GT
2 x 1GB Kingston value DDR2 800

So what's next?

ouput of this please:


glxinfo


did u try with an other 3d application?