Sauerbraten

tony5429 · 2006-07-31 16:14:42

I have played this game on windows and would like to use it on arch. I can't find it in any of the repositories. Is there a place I can request to have it compiled and hosted in a repo? If not, i have web hosting and could easily host the compiled 686 binary - could I then simply change pacman.conf to consider my host URL as a repo?

Gullible Jones · 2006-07-31 19:29:59

It's in the AUR. Download the tarball, unpack it somewhere, cd in, and compile it using makepkg.

kps · 2006-07-31 20:52:13

And then install it with pacman.

pacman -A <packagename>.pkg.tar.gz

Gullible Jones · 2006-08-01 02:44:18

You can also use the -i option with makepkg for automatic install (if you're not using fakeroot).

pauldonnelly · 2006-08-01 03:48:01

The Sauerbraten page at Sourceforge does have Linux binaries.

tony5429 · 2007-05-24 13:00:23

okay... I've downloaded the tar.bz2 linux file from here...

http://downloads.sourceforge.net/sauerb … g_mirror=0

I tried running

pacman -A sauerbraten_2007_04_15_spring_edition_linux.tar.bz2

but pacman said the name of my file was wrong. I purposefully ran the same bash with a mistyped filename and it said the file could not be found so I know pacman is finding the file. It is just not able to install it...

Any ideas, anyone? Do I need to use makepkg? if so, how do i do it exactly??

klixon · 2007-05-24 13:13:53

You should first read all of this
Then go here
search for the right pkgbuild and apply all you've learned in step 1

tony5429 · 2007-05-24 13:22:45

Actually, the AUR has an outdated version. That's why I would prefer to use the latest version from sourceforge. Can I use that file (http://downloads.sourceforge.net/sauerb … g_mirror=0) on my arch linux?

slackhack · 2007-05-24 13:43:36

tony: pacman is a package mananger for packages specifically built for arch linux and hosted in the arch repositories. what you are linking to and downloading is a compressed archive file "external" to arch linux, similar to a .zip file in windows that you might download from the web somewhere. naturally, therefore, it won't work to pacman it.

just like with windows, to use what's inside the archive you first have to "unzip" (uncompress it). bz2 means it was compressed using bzip2 program, and to unpack it you do tar -xvjf <filename>.bz2. for more in depth information, you can search the web for bzip2 and gzip, or in a terminal do man bzip2, man gzip, etc.

tony5429 · 2007-05-24 14:53:22

thank you very much for the information. Once unpacked, can I use makepkg to make an arch-friendly file and then use pacman to install it? will that work??

slackhack · 2007-05-24 15:30:02

tony5429 wrote:

thank you very much for the information. Once unpacked, can I use makepkg to make an arch-friendly file and then use pacman to install it? will that work??

not quite, at least not in this case. you should read the wiki for building packages, but i think you shouldn't worry so much about building packages right now. for the game you're interested in, you just need to download it, unpack it with the command i mentioned, and then cd into the directory it unpacks and run the binary by doing ./<name of file>. just do ls -l and whatever is the biggest file is probably the binary.

tony5429 · 2007-05-24 15:43:56

Ohh - okay - I can do that..I'll give it a shot Thanks again!

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#1 2006-07-31 16:14:42

Sauerbraten

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Re: Sauerbraten

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