Game: UFO:AI can't enter the battle

[maksonT]

Hi! I have got this problem. I have installed UFO:AI from Packman repositories using Yast2 (packages: ufoai, ufoai-data, ufoai-maps, ufoai-music, ufoai-kate-extension). The game work corectly till firs mission. When I send soldiers in aircraft for mision and press "enter the battlefield" the game go to main menu and there is no possibility to continue (when I press contiune it enters the game just before I pressed "enter the battle"). I am using openSUSE 11.1 on computer Nvidia Quadro FX 370 with correctly installed nofree drivers.
Have anyone had this probllem and know how to solve it? I really want to try this game and I would be grateful for help.

[maksonT]

Sorry for puting this thread in a bad sub-forum. I kindly ask to move this subject to Games Sub-Forum

[deltaflyer44]

Originally Posted by maksonT

Sorry for puting this thread in a bad sub-forum. I kindly ask to move this subject to Games Sub-Forum

Request accepted,Moved to Games

Andy

[GofBorg]

> Hi! I have got this problem. I have installed UFO:AI from Packman
> repositories using Yast2 (packages: ufoai, ufoai-data, ufoai-maps,
> ufoai-music, ufoai-kate-extension). The game work corectly till firs
> mission. When I send soldiers in aircraft for mision and press "enter
> the battlefield" the game go to main menu and there is no possibility to
> continue (when I press contiune it enters the game just before I pressed
> "enter the battle"). I am using openSUSE 11.1 on computer Nvidia Quadro
> FX 370 with correctly installed nofree drivers.
> Have anyone had this probllem and know how to solve it? I really want
> to try this game and I would be grateful for help.

We have a games sub-forum?

[Edward_Iii]

Hi! I have got this problem. I have installed UFO:AI from Packman repositories using Yast2 (packages: ufoai, ufoai-data, ufoai-maps, ufoai-music, ufoai-kate-extension). The game work corectly till firs mission. When I send soldiers in aircraft for mision and press "enter the battlefield" the game go to main menu and there is no possibility to continue (when I press contiune it enters the game just before I pressed "enter the battle"). I am using openSUSE 11.1 on computer Nvidia Quadro FX 370 with correctly installed nofree drivers.
Have anyone had this probllem and know how to solve it? I really want to try this game and I would be grateful for help.

There is something wrong with the package in the Packman repository. A friend of mine had the same problem but he found a solution. Luckily it's very simple: just open a terminal and type:

su
cp /usr/share/games/ufoai/data/game.so /home/<USERNAME>/.ufoai/2.2.1/base/game.so

You have to replace <USERNAME> with your own username.

Good luck!

[maksonT]

In directory /usr/share/games/ufoai/ there is only "base" folder (there is no "data" folder) . So I can not copy file game.so. Can You send this file to me on my email or help in other way (I send you my email adress in privat message)?

[maksonT]

All right I found "game.so" file in /usr/lib/ufoai directory. I have copyied it to /home/[myname]/.ufoai/2.2.1/base
Now the game work just fine. Thank you for your help.

[baskitcaise]

maksonT adjusted his/her AFDB on Friday 24 Jul 2009 11:56 to write:

>
> All right I found "game.so" file in /usr/lib/ufoai directory. I have
> copyied it to /home/[myname]/.ufoai/2.2.1/base
> Now the game work just fine. Thank you for your help.
>
>

Maybe a link instead of a straight copy would have been better, if the game
is updated and that file is in the update then you will still be using the
original from your /home dir and not the one in the /usr/lib dir.

HTH

--
Mark
Caveat emptor
Nullus in verba
Nil illegitimi carborundum

[Edward_Iii]

Maybe a link instead of a straight copy would have been better, if the game
is updated and that file is in the update then you will still be using the
original from your /home dir and not the one in the /usr/lib dir.

You're totally right baskitcaise. When I first tried to make a hardlink I ended up with:

 Invalid cross-device link

Because my / dir is on a different partition as my home directories. You can solve this by making a symbolic link, just add -s to the ln command.
So in your case maksonT enter this command in terminal:

su
ln -s /usr/lib/ufoai/data/game.so /home/<USERNAME>/.ufoai/2.2.1/base/game.so

Hope you can beat those aliens!

[maksonT]

Originally Posted by Edward_Iii

You're totally right baskitcaise. When I first tried to make a hardlink I ended up with:

 Invalid cross-device link

Because my / dir is on a different partition as my home directories. You can solve this by making a symbolic link, just add -s to the ln command.
So in your case maksonT enter this command in terminal:

su
ln -s /usr/lib/ufoai/data/game.so /home/<USERNAME>/.ufoai/2.2.1/base/game.so

Hope you can beat those aliens!

Actually the proper command in my case would be:
ln -s /usr/lib/ufoai/game.so /home/<USERNAME>/.ufoai/2.2.1/base/game.so (of course as a root). So in firs place I deleted the game.so copy which I made before and next I make this command. The game work just fine so it will stay in this way.
Now I can secure the Earth and kill all aliens. Thank you for your help.