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foobar:
Hi, it's me again ....
I'm having the strange problem with my Mandrake 8.1 version, because it can't run my quake. Neither the quake.x11 or the squake binaries work.
It just says:
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bash:squake: No such file or directory
Strange is that on a much older (1996, version 3.1) Slackware it runs like a charm, only with no sound ....
please help !
voidmain:
Assuming that your /usr/local/games/quake/squake file exists can you post the first line contained within that file? It should be a script. The first line should be something like: "#!/usr/bin/sh" which would tell the script to run under the "sh" shell contained in /usr/bin. That is a common error message when the path to the shell is incorrect or the shell that the script is trying to run under does not exist.
[ May 06, 2002: Message edited by: VoidMain ]
foobar:
Negative, quake.x11 and squake are both binaries,
like the MS-DOS version, quake.exe ....
voidmain:
Where can I find a copy of the exact quake binaries you are trying to get running? I'm running Quake III and I have a quake3.x86 binary and a quake3 script to run it.
If you are getting that message from a binary then my guess is there is a critical shared library missing that quake is linked to. You might be able to do a "strings squake | more" and see what libraries it is trying to call. If you have those libraries installed on your sytem but just in a different location than where quake is looking for them you can create symbolic links.
For instance, when I do a "strings quake3.x86" the first line is "/lib/ld-linux.so.2". If that file did not exist on my system I would get a message similar to what you are seeing.
[ May 06, 2002: Message edited by: VoidMain ]
foobar:
Yes void, you're right. But mine is Quake 1, and when i checked for my svgalib after posting, it wasn't there ! So i downloaded and installed svgalib, but it still don't work.
If you'd like to take a look, download it here.
http://metalab.unc.edu/pub/Linux/games/quake/squake2.0.tar.gz
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