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Monday, October 1, 2012 - 09:48

@dorkster thanks a lot, now it works :)

Monday, October 1, 2012 - 08:26

On systems like Linux, the data files are expected to be in:

/usr/local/share/flare

Specifically:

/usr/local/share/flare/mods/

It's using the XDG standard. It only looks in the local folder as a final option: https://github.com/clintbellanger/flare-engine/wiki/Directories

 

Oh, it makes sense that it doesn't work then, because Desura builds are installed inside of the Desura dirs (specifically /opt/desura/common/ in case of the Archlinux build of Desura).

And for the .so file, try setting the LD_LIBRARY_PATH env variable to the directory where the .so file is located. Im pretty this is not necessary if the .so file is installed in the standard location (/usr/lib i think).

 

It is in /usr/lib

Not only that, there's even a copy of it inside of Desura (/opt/desura/lib/libjpeg.so.62)
 (I guess it was included with some other game, since I think games on Desura can be shipped with some libraries).

 

By the way, the new PKGBUILD is broken as well... I tried it last night then I had to turn off the computer and I forgot to save the error, though. It was something on the lines of flare-rpg directory that does not exist I think. I think it's the step when it cds in the source dir, but I had no time to look into it though.

 

Sunday, September 30, 2012 - 10:22

Building flare is relatively easy as there are only a few dependencies. So in case you have some experience with the shell you may try to compile it yourself:

I know that, but I was talking about a native 64bit version distributed on Desura, I can't add that myself ^^

 

The AUR packages are outdated, but I've made one that downloads the 0.17 tag from the Github repo (via git, so it should be more reliable): https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=63241

If you still want to attempt to get the Desura version working, you could try making a symbolic link at /usr/local/share/games/flare/mods/ that points to the flare mods folder inside your Desura folder.

Thanks, but I think that symlink won't work to launch on Desura. Launching from Desura has a different error, like I wrote above, it can't find libjpeg.so.62. I would have placed a symlink to it already, but I have no idea where. The error you refer to happens when I try to launch manually from command line but my current dir is not the one Flare is installed to.

Anyway, thanks a lot for the PKGBUILD, I'll try that :) I'd have preferred to manage the game from within Desura, but that will do too :)