Trouble Running Armagetron on gentoo Linux

Dreforian · Post by **Dreforian** » Fri Oct 20, 2006 11:11 pm

I'm new, both to the forums and to linux, so pretty please bare with me.

just installed the latest Sabayon linux (based off gentoo) and finally somehow managed to install armagetron using gentoo's portage program. problem is is that armagetron wont run at all. I click, it shows the program trying to launch on the bottom bar, then just dissapears. no error message or anything. Is there anything more I need to get to be able to run the game properly? is there any way to get info telling me what is failing when the game doesnt run? Any and all assistance is greatly appreciated.

if this is all answered somewhere feel free to beat me or preferably point me in the right direction.

Post by **Lucifer** » Fri Oct 20, 2006 11:18 pm

Did you make sure to add yourself to the games group?

Dreforian · Post by **Dreforian** » Fri Oct 20, 2006 11:25 pm

checked on that and yes, I'm in the games group

Post by **Lucifer** » Fri Oct 20, 2006 11:27 pm

Hmmm. You'll need to start it in a terminal then and try to run it, copy ad paste the output here.

Dreforian · Post by **Dreforian** » Fri Oct 20, 2006 11:30 pm

$ armagetronad
armagetronad: error while loading shared libraries: libxml2.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

Post by **Lucifer** » Fri Oct 20, 2006 11:31 pm

emerge libxml2

anjori · Post by **anjori** » Fri Oct 20, 2006 11:35 pm

Lucifer wrote:Did you make sure to add yourself to the games group?

Damn, you're quick. I go to the forums, open any threads of interest in tabs, and then make my way to this one not long after. But by the time I hit reply, you've already got a few posts knocked out.

Post by **Lucifer** » Fri Oct 20, 2006 11:38 pm

anjori wrote:
Lucifer wrote:Did you make sure to add yourself to the games group?
Damn, you're quick. I go to the forums, open any threads of interest in tabs, and then make my way to this one not long after. But by the time I hit reply, you've already got a few posts knocked out.

You uhhhh want I should slow down?

Dreforian · Post by **Dreforian** » Fri Oct 20, 2006 11:42 pm

you are wise! unfortunately I've tried it (the emerge worked fine) but I get the same error when running from the terminal

Post by **Lucifer** » Fri Oct 20, 2006 11:46 pm

Did you do ldconfig? (I know, emerge does it automatically, but it shouldn't hurt) You might try reinstalling arma after getting it's dependency. I don't know enough about your specific distribution, just that in regular Gentoo I usually have to enable some use flag and re-emerge a package when I screwed up a dependency.

Dreforian · Post by **Dreforian** » Fri Oct 20, 2006 11:52 pm

you will have to educate me in using Idconfig

also, just re -emerged the package and then tried running it again and still same error

Post by **Lucifer** » Fri Oct 20, 2006 11:54 pm

ls -l /usr/lib/*xml2*

Dreforian · Post by **Dreforian** » Sat Oct 21, 2006 12:07 am

same error after doing that, then re-emerging the file, then re-emerging the game.

also tried restarting, didnt help

Post by **Lucifer** » Sat Oct 21, 2006 12:10 am

Lucifer wrote:ls -l /usr/lib/*xml2*

please post the results of this command here.

Post by **Tank Program** » Sat Oct 21, 2006 12:15 am

And also did you re-emerge armagetron after emerging libxml2?