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Jannes

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Registered: 2010-07-14

Posts: 13

[Solved] Red Eclipse doesn't start

Hi guys,

I have the following problem: When I'm klicking on the Red Eclipse starter in the menu, it doesn't start and nothing happens. I have installed it from the AUR with yaourt. I had the same problem with Bos Wars but I already uninstalled it. Any ideas how to solve this issue?

Thanks in anticipation.

Sorry for my English. ;-)

Last edited by Jannes (2010-10-09 19:27:28)

Snowknight

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Registered: 2009-06-11

Posts: 55

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Re: [Solved] Red Eclipse doesn't start

Red Eclipse launches through a script stored in /usr/bin. This script attempts to run the game's executable; the redeclipse-svn package has it under /usr/share/redeclipse/bin. This script also expects the executable to have one of a few suffixes, and the condition in the script that would allow for a suffix-free executable is commented out.

There are a couple ways you can fix this.
Edit /usr/bin/redeclipse as root. Find this section.

#if [ -x ${RE_BIN}/reclient ]
#then
#    SYSTEM_SUFFIX=
#    MACHINE_SUFFIX=
#fi

Remove the pound signs/number signs/hashes (or whatever you like to call them) so that the block looks like this.

if [ -x ${RE_BIN}/reclient ]
then
    SYSTEM_SUFFIX=
    MACHINE_SUFFIX=
fi

Try launching the game after you do that. It should work. And, for the future, if a program doesn't seem to do anything after you launch it with a GUI menu, try running it on the console. It lets you see error messages that are otherwise invisible.

Editing that script file is only a temporary solution. Rebuild redeclipse-svn and your edits will disappear. I'll post something on this package to tell its maintainer to either edit the launcher or add the suffixes with the PKGBUILD.

Last edited by Snowknight (2010-10-10 02:09:56)

Jannes

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Registered: 2010-07-14

Posts: 13

Re: [Solved] Red Eclipse doesn't start

Thanks, now it works! :-)