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Old 05-04-2008, 08:06 PM
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Ubuntu installation issues.

I am new to Ubuntu just to brief how light on the lingo you may need to be.
I am dual-booting ubuntu on a vista computer, I have checked for errors with the application and it can't find any. I downloaded the graal installer but when I open it I get this message:
"gedit has not been able to detect the character coding.
Please check that you are not trying to open a binary file.
Select a character coding from the menu and try again.
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I want to switch to linux though but graal is a big thing to me, any assistance?
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Old 05-04-2008, 11:50 PM
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It's may be seeing the file as text, not as executable.
The best is to open a terminal window, and type this:
NPC Code:

cd ~/Desktop
chmod +x graal4setup
./graal4setup


There were a few threads about that, e.g. http://forums.graalonline.com/forums...ad.php?t=74964
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Old 05-05-2008, 12:55 AM
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Sorry, didn't know what that meant when I read that one. just installed ubuntu today. now I get this:
"/tmp/autopackage.296636370/meta/@www.graalonline.com/graalonline:5.12/apkg-downloader: line 590: autopackage/libexec/autosu-tui: No such file or directory
The autopackage support code could not be installed.

It can be manually downloaded and installed by running the
installation script located in the downloaded archive.
"

That is after it asked me this and I pressed Y:
"The installation of this software requires some additional support
code to be installed.

A] If the support code is found in a local directory, it will be used.
The file containing the support code will be called:

"autopackage.tar.bz2"

or

B] If there is an active Internet connection, the support code will be
downloaded from:

"http://autopackage.org/downloads/latest/autopackage.tar.bz2"

Proxy users should ensure the http_proxy environment variable is
set, otherwise the download may fail.


Selection B --> OK to download and install support code now? (Y/n):
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Old 05-05-2008, 01:52 AM
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Seems you are missing the autopackage repository. I don't care for autopackage but in this case you need it. Press y to those responses and download. If it doesn't install, try apt-get install autopackage (unfortunately i don't have an ubuntu box around so i can't test ) and if that doesn't work, download the zipped-tar from the link and go from there. When installed, sudo into root and run the Graal install again. Hopefully it should go fine.

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Old 05-05-2008, 04:46 AM
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I manually downloaded them and when I try to unpack them using the terminal, it tells me I need GLIB 2.0 or higher and I don't know what that is nor how to get it XD. Complete noob to linux.
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Old 05-05-2008, 04:58 AM
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I manually downloaded them and when I try to unpack them using the terminal, it tells me I need GLIB 2.0 or higher and I don't know what that is nor how to get it XD. Complete noob to linux.
apt-get my friend!

sudo apt-get install glibc

Should work out what you need and download/install the relevant packages.
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Old 05-05-2008, 05:17 AM
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If you're having trouble with using/understanding apt-get in terminal, Ubuntu has GUI applications that you can use for apt-get. Synaptic Package Manager is one that is installed with the distribution, you can find it in your applications.

Once you open that, you can search for glib and it will walk you through the process of downloading and installing. It can be a good tool for a new linux user who is not familiar with terminal commands.
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Old 05-05-2008, 06:41 AM
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Old 05-05-2008, 01:41 PM
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Hmmm sounds a little bit complex. In the next Linux version we will try to make it simpler, just provide a zip/tgz.
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Old 05-06-2008, 12:18 AM
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Or perhaps an rpm, and dpkg package? That'd be good.
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Old 05-06-2008, 01:25 AM
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That would be good because I got nothing from twinny's code and that manager doesn't have the file I need. Anything else I try to install on here is easy... yet graal isn't...
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Old 05-06-2008, 01:29 AM
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atomuskus: Make sure you are installing graal as the super user or via sudo.

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$ sudo su
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# ./graal4setup

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Old 05-06-2008, 09:28 PM
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I am still getting the first error and I still can't do the autopackage without glib 2.0 or higher which I can't seem to find.
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Old 05-06-2008, 09:48 PM
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sudo apt-cache search libglib2
I believe it's libglib2.0, you should already have it if you're running ubnutu/gnome!
sudo apt-get install libglib2.0 libglib2-dev
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Old 05-07-2008, 02:02 AM
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Actually Graal doesn't need many separate files anymore, so it might be even possible to skip any installation and add just something to add a link into the games menu (and adding a desktop link), to make it easier to find the game.
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