Installing through APT on Ubuntu Natty Narwhal 64bit
I did read the "Read This First!" notice, and did search the forums. I've also Googled it, and come up with solutions not applicable for my particular distro. I'm very new and inexperienced with Ubuntu, and I just want to play my WADs. I know Doomsday has an APT repository, which for me is so much less scary than the prospect of SVN and all that stuff. Seriously, that end of Linux usage makes no sense to me at all. Might as well be Mayan glyphs.
My problem is basically this; When I go to dengine.net and click on the Ubuntu icon on the right, and then click on the top option "Doomsday 1.9.0-beta6.9 (Stable) Ubuntu 11.10+ : Release notes". It opens up in Ubuntu Software Centre, with a page displaying "Not Found: There isn't a software package called "Doomsday" in your current software sources".
Now, I know what this means, I need to add some lines to my respositories through Edit > Software Sources on the USC. However, my efforts Googling these lines turned up results for older versions of Ubuntu. Basically, can someone give me the correct repositories to add for my system? See my sig for my specs. Hopefully this will be relatively painless and I can start playing my WADs again. Thanks in advance!
My problem is basically this; When I go to dengine.net and click on the Ubuntu icon on the right, and then click on the top option "Doomsday 1.9.0-beta6.9 (Stable) Ubuntu 11.10+ : Release notes". It opens up in Ubuntu Software Centre, with a page displaying "Not Found: There isn't a software package called "Doomsday" in your current software sources".
Now, I know what this means, I need to add some lines to my respositories through Edit > Software Sources on the USC. However, my efforts Googling these lines turned up results for older versions of Ubuntu. Basically, can someone give me the correct repositories to add for my system? See my sig for my specs. Hopefully this will be relatively painless and I can start playing my WADs again. Thanks in advance!
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Currently Ubuntu 11.10 is in beta.
If you are using an older version of Ubuntu you will have to compile it yourself.
you can download a snapshot of the the most recent unstable release. extract it.
and compile it, you can find instructions how to set up Ubuntu to compile deng here http://dengine.net/dew/index.php?title= ... ted#Ubuntu
http://www.dengine.net/wip/unstablebuil ... ntu&bit=64
Then install that .deb with Ubuntu Software Center (or manually with, say, apt-get). After that you should be able to launch Doomsday via the Applications menu or by running "launch-doomsday". The .deb will also install the Doomsday repository address on your system so you'll get the updates automatically.
NOTE: Doomsday is not yet fully debugged on 64-bit systems, so you may run into some crashes. The 32-bit builds are much more stable, but currently we don't offer a 32-bit build of Doomsday for a 64-bit OS. Good luck!
The runtime log files should be located in ~/.doomsday, maybe there's something in doomsday.out that would be of interest.
Nothing much to see there, methinks. The doomsday out is:
I tried to attach this as a file, it wouldn't let me because of the extension. Sorry.
Edit DaniJ: Added /code tags
Nothing else seems to be wrong in the logs, so it could be that the only solution is to wait for the 64-bit to be fixed...
By all means submit bug reports to our bug tracker, we'll get to them sooner or later.