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Thanks, we'll look into it. Sounds like it might be a missing dependency in the Debian package.

You are using and old repo, see: http://www.allacrost.org/download


Hmm, not sure about that... he is trying to install from source. Anyway, both libqt4-dev and libqt4-opengl-dev are listed as build-dependencies in the Debian package.

(Note that I haven't tested if the package actually works on Ubuntu; if someone has successfully installed it, please let me know.)

I tested the Debian package on Debian Testing, and it seems to work just fine. I posted a response on the Ubuntu thread. The problem is partly that the OP made some mistakes and misunderstood the instructions, and partly that half the responses in the thread wouldn't even work in Ubuntu Hardy.

It is worthy of note that the debian binary for the editor will not work out of the box in Hardy, because it requires newer Qt libraries than Hardy provides. libqt-opengl and libqt-opengl-dev are not even available in Hardy. It might work if the user also put the hardy-backports into their sources.list.

I recommend compiling from source if you want to install Allacrost on Ubuntu. The OP already has the source, and I think he'll be OK now.

I learned that Allacrost builds the editor by default now. I guess I can stop adding the --enable-editor to the configure line.

That's correct. I changed the default value of this option to true since we will be distributing the editor with the game releases from now on. If for some reason you ever want to not tell configure to compile the game editor, I think you can add --enable-editor=false to the configure line.

I think I found some small issues from the Debian installation instructions on http://www.allacrost.org/download

shouldn't this

be like this instead?


Also, the line "deb http://debian.ettin.org/allacrost unstable main.," looks very confusing with the ending dot, please remove it.

Is this project dead?

I added the repo and gpg key expecting to install this with synaptic but libluabind0 isn't on the repositorys only libluabind0.9.0 is which causes unmet dependencies in ubuntu 10.04 lucid.

After I managed to manually install the game it errors when run with:

/usr/games/allacrost: error while loading shared libraries: libluabind.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

I really want a Turn-Based RPG game available to Ubuntu, cause most are real time battles. Just hoping that one of the devs here will consider making the repository function with a clean Ubuntu 10.04 so I can get more involved with it's development. I'm not a deb packaging expert yet, but can code.

Subscribed to this thread, let me know what I can try please?

No we're not dead. We just have only a handful of people committed to continuing work on the project right now and pretty much every one of us is busy with other things in our lives.

Are you trying to install the latest trunk build, the latest official release (which is well over a year old), or the latest unofficial release? If you're installing the latest official release, I believe you need Luabind 0.8. The latest unofficial release and trunk both migrated to Luabind 0.9 if I remember correctly. I know that we've had some issues with Ubuntu before because they don't update their Luabind packages as quickly as Debian does. I run Debian unstable which has the Luabind 0.9 package. Worst case scenario is that you'll have to build the Luabind library yourself. Yes, the library is a constant thorn in our side for the build process and compatibility, but it works excellent once you actually have it built successfully.


Our debian packager is ettin and he's usually idle in our IRC channel. You might want to try to get in touch with him if you're having issues with the package, although I haven't heard from him in months. Hope this information is a good start for you. Let me know if that helps or if you have any more questions. Oh and BTW, there's a large difference between the latest official release and the latest unofficial release (there's no Debian package for the later); They are practically two different games. So if you're new to Allacrost you may want to give both of them a try. Thanks!

If you're interested in development you may want to check out the current SVN version:

http://allacrost.sourceforge.net/wiki/i ... Repository

The reason I suggest this is that it should actually run better than the last unstable release, which crashes too much. I've had few if any crashes on the current revision, and some of the minor issues have been ironed out.

In any case, thanks for your interest in the project! If you'd like to help with development let us know, we're open to any contributions.