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Title: Installl tutorial for Ubuntu?
Post by: OverDhill on March 22, 2015, 01:05:23 pm

I just got my sons machine loaded with Ubuntu 14.04 and was wondering if there is a tutorial to install FS2 Open using the installer. I also have FS2 installed on my Windows 7 machine from GOG. So how do I get the files to his machine and how do I run the installer?

Sorry but I am a Linux newbie

Title: Re: Installl tutorial for Ubuntu?
Post by: Jeff Vader on March 22, 2015, 02:56:03 pm

http://www.hard-light.net/forums/index.php?topic=79545.0

Title: Re: Installl tutorial for Ubuntu?
Post by: OverDhill on March 22, 2015, 03:57:08 pm

I saw that thread but it was written before the Installer was created. I was under the impression that the Installer was cross platform and could be used to install FS2 Open on a Linux system.

Title: Re: Installl tutorial for Ubuntu?
Post by: niffiwan on March 22, 2015, 05:12:11 pm

Yes, use the installer the same as you'd use it on a Windows machine and it will mostly work.  You just need to make sure that you have installed the correct version of java since there's a "headless" version which is designed for use on servers without a graphics card.  i.e. you want to install openjdk-7-jre, openjdk-7-jre-headless and openjdk-7-jre-lib.  You can do this with synaptic; or by running the following commands at a terminal:

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sudo apt-get update (may take a while to finish)
sudo apt-get install openjdk-7-jre openjdk-7-jre-headless openjdk-7-jre-lib (press Y to continue, and this may pull in a bunch of other packages to install as dependencies)

To copy the GOG installer across to the Linux machine (and assuming you're sharing a folder on your Win7 machine) you should just be able to browse (from the Linux machine) to the shared folder via the file manager, selecting "network", then probably "Workgroup" and then the Win7 machine name. You could also copy across the entire FSO directory from your windows machine, then just run the installer on Linux to get the correct binaries.

There's one issue FSO on Linux has with case-sensitive directory names that might need fixing - i.e. you probably need to rename "MediaVPs_2014" to "mediavps_2014"; and then you might need to modify some mod.ini files if they have used capitals in their secondary_modlist entry.

Anyway, just post if you have any issues with that and I'm sure we can help further.