Opening Tron or Anything on Ubuntu! (Noob of the newbs)

[INW]

Well I am extremely new to ubuntu as an operating system. I have used debian for tron servers and stuff but I have never actually used ubuntu as I would windows.

I have been trying to download simple programs like ARMAGETRON and teamspeak and stuff.

I download the package and go to open it with the software installer program that comes with ubuntu 11.10.

I keep getting the error that the specified package is not a software package.

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NOT FOUND
The file "/home/"myusername"/Downloads/armagetronad-0.2.8.3.1.i486-generic-linux-gnu.package" is not a software package

And I get the same thing for any program I go to open on ubuntu.

I just don't get any of this!

[Jonathan]

/home/"myusername"/Downloads/...

The heck? That isn't your actual username, is it?

[Z-Man]

The Ubuntu packet managers only work with .deb files. .package files are autopackage files and you need to install them on the console, the first one with

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sh <package>

all further ones with

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package install <package>

Autopackage is abandoned, however, and therefore installation may simply not work at all any more. Last I checked, it still worked, but you had to install sdl-image manually. It's better to use the ppa if you're on Ubuntu. Plus, 0.2.8.3.1 is also outdated. Yes, armagetronad.net is, too.

[INW]

/home/"myusername"/Downloads/...

The heck? That isn't your actual username, is it?

No it isn't, hence the quotations.

The Ubuntu packet managers only work with .deb files. .package files are autopackage files and you need to install them on the console, the first one with

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sh <package>

all further ones with

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package install <package>

Autopackage is abandoned, however, and therefore installation may simply not work at all any more. Last I checked, it still worked, but you had to install sdl-image manually. It's better to use the ppa if you're on Ubuntu. Plus, 0.2.8.3.1 is also outdated. Yes, armagetronad.net is, too.

Alright, I'll try that with tron when I get home from school!

[INW]

sine got me on track and i actually got tron up and running using "PPA".

The only problem I see is that I used the experimental version on windows and I see it displayed in the archive but when I go to install it, it can't find the armagetron-experimental package. It can only find the armagetronad package.

I really like the experimental package because it accepts cockpit files and the copy/paste feature that the 2.8.3 version does not (as well as colored names and teams).

How would I go about installing the experimental or even the .4 version through the "PPA"?

[Z-Man]

armagetronad-experimental package.

That's the correct one. If it doesn't find that, you didn't set up the ppa correctly; here are the instructions.

[INW]

EDIT: It did find the file and install but when I go to run the client, I get this error:

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Failed to launch Armagetron Experimental. Failed to change to directory '/usr/games/armagetronad-experimental' (not a directory)

Do I just create the directory? It is very weird because there is an armagetronad-experimental file in the /game directory but no actually folder titled 'armagetronad-experimental'.