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Title: Installation on Parrot OS (Debian)
Post by: TedBusto on October 01, 2017, 08:42:29 am
Hello All!

I am trying to get Diaspora installed on my Debian build. I made the folder and got into the fs2_open folder and ran ./autogen.sh and it goes for a while and errors out with this:

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checking for OpenAL... no
*** Could not run OpenAL test program, checking why...
*** The test program failed to compile or link. See the file config.log for the
*** exact error that occured. This usually means OpenAL was incorrectly installed
*** or that you have moved OpenAL since it was installed.
configure: error: *** OpenAL installation not found!

here is what the config file has to say:
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configure:6754: checking for OpenAL
configure:6792: gcc -o conftest     conftest.c   -lopenal >&5
conftest.c:26:10: fatal error: AL/al.h: No such file or directory
 #include <AL/al.h>
          ^~~~~~~~~
compilation terminated.

I looked for the matching packages that this is looking for and this is what synaptic says I have.

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What package do I need to install to make this work?

I have already checked the threads, and I guess I havn't seen any other Linux  OpenAL problems.

I tried this from another thread and it had errors but didn't list anything from OpenAL so I ignored it.

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sudo apt-get install libopenal-dev libogg-dev libvorbis-dev build-essential automake1.10 autoconf libsdl1.2-dev libtheora-dev libreadline6-dev libpng12-dev libjpeg62-dev liblua5.1-0-dev libjansson-dev
See attached config.log

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Title: Re: Installation on Parrot OS (Debian)
Post by: tomimaki on October 01, 2017, 09:59:22 am
install libopenal-dev

but I suggest you to try Diaspora with more current build (https://github.com/scp-fs2open/fs2open.github.com/releases/tag/release_3_8_0) than fs2_open 3.6.13
Title: Re: Installation on Parrot OS (Debian)
Post by: TedBusto on October 01, 2017, 10:43:53 am
install libopenal-dev

but I suggest you to try Diaspora with more current build (https://github.com/scp-fs2open/fs2open.github.com/releases/tag/release_3_8_0) than fs2_open 3.6.13

How do I use the new fs2_open with Diaspora? I will start hunting for a guide, but I didn't know if maybe you had seen one.
Title: Re: Installation on Parrot OS (Debian)
Post by: TedBusto on October 01, 2017, 10:49:21 am
install libopenal-dev

but I suggest you to try Diaspora with more current build (https://github.com/scp-fs2open/fs2open.github.com/releases/tag/release_3_8_0) than fs2_open 3.6.13

installing libopenal-dev got me one step closer and then another error.
Title: Re: Installation on Parrot OS (Debian)
Post by: tomimaki on October 01, 2017, 10:59:34 am
https://github.com/scp-fs2open/fs2open.github.com/wiki/Building-on-Linux

install libopenal-dev

but I suggest you to try Diaspora with more current build (https://github.com/scp-fs2open/fs2open.github.com/releases/tag/release_3_8_0) than fs2_open 3.6.13

How do I use the new fs2_open with Diaspora? I will start hunting for a guide, but I didn't know if maybe you had seen one.

Just put build in Diaspora folder and select it in wxlauncher.
Title: Re: Installation on Parrot OS (Debian)
Post by: niffiwan on October 02, 2017, 04:36:19 pm
If you're looking for a guide to building from source then this is the most recent:
https://github.com/scp-fs2open/fs2open.github.com/wiki/Building-on-Linux

If you find any issues, please let us know so the guide can be updated