From joeschmotz at gmail.com  Mon Aug 11 14:43:11 2008
From: joeschmotz at gmail.com (Joe Doyen)
Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2008 14:43:11 -0500
Subject: [netrek] installing Linux version
Message-ID: <5d3d85f10808111243q6030c754y9e6ff941091e2cf0@mail.gmail.com>

Hi, I am running Ubuntu 8.04 and (well, I am kinda new to Linux anyway...) I
was trying to install the Linux version of Netrek, but I couldn't figure out
exactly how to do it...could you help me?  I haven't played this game since
1992 when I was a student at Iowa State University in Ames.  I wondered
whatever happened to it!!  Any help would be appreciated....don't worry I
will be an ADDICT.
--Joe Doyen, Beaman, IA
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From netrek at gmail.com  Mon Aug 11 15:16:10 2008
From: netrek at gmail.com (Zach Uram)
Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2008 16:16:10 -0400
Subject: [netrek] installing Linux version
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On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 3:43 PM, Joe Doyen <joeschmotz at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi, I am running Ubuntu 8.04 and (well, I am kinda new to Linux anyway...) I
> was trying to install the Linux version of Netrek, but I couldn't figure out
> exactly how to do it...could you help me?  I haven't played this game since
> 1992 when I was a student at Iowa State University in Ames.  I wondered
> whatever happened to it!!  Any help would be appreciated....don't worry I
> will be an ADDICT.

Hi Joe,

Welcome back! What client are you trying to install? Is it COW,
Paradise-2000, BRMH, Paradise 2.99? And can you please post exactly
what you did and any errors you are seeing.

Zach


From quozl at us.netrek.org  Mon Aug 11 18:02:28 2008
From: quozl at us.netrek.org (James Cameron)
Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2008 09:02:28 +1000
Subject: [netrek] installing Linux version
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Message-ID: <20080811230228.GA5186@us.netrek.org>

G'day Joe,

Ubuntu 8.04 is very similar to Debian, so my current package works, I've
just tried it, but since there isn't a repository you have to install
manually, please follow these steps:

1.  check if you are using 32-bit or 64-bit architecture,

	dpkg-architecture -qDEB_HOST_ARCH

2.  download the correct package file, according to the answer in step
1, choose one of the following,

	wget http://netrek.org/files/COW/netrek-client-cow_3.2.6-0_i386.deb

	or

	wget http://netrek.org/files/COW/netrek-client-cow_3.2.6-1_amd64.deb

3.  install the package,

	sudo dpkg --install netrek-client-cow_3.2.6-0_i386.deb

	or

	sudo dpkg --install netrek-client-cow_3.2.6-1_amd64.deb

At this point if you see an error "dpkg: dependency problems prevent
configuration of netrek-client-cow" and "dependency problems - leaving
unconfigured", tell the system to fix it,

	sudo apt-get -f install

4.  run the program,

	netrek-client-cow

5.  you should be given a metaserver list, left-click to join a server
and create a character, middle-click to join as guest.

See you on pickled.

-- 
James Cameron    mailto:quozl at us.netrek.org     http://quozl.netrek.org/