Working glest-1.1.0 ebuild!

surfmasta · n00b Joined: 23 Jul 2005 Posts: 36

Hi,
i wanted to try out this game, 'cos i saw nice screenshots. My problem was the game from portage (1.0.10-xx) doesnt work, so i decided to write a new ebuild with a newer version of glest.
- Fixed some problems with nvidia-geforce cards (SDL Error is: Couldn't find matching GLX visual)
- Fixed soundproblem (Wrong driver in glest.ini)
- Fixed font-problem (Exception: Font not found)

How to use this ebuild?
download the file http://www.schwendau.net/glest-1.1.0.ebuild.tar.gz and do following as root:
cd /usr/portage
rm -rf games-strategy/glest
tar -zxvf glest-1.1.0.ebuild.tar.gz

and emerge glest. when you dont want to overwrite your portagetree-files of glest, then put it in your own overlay or emerge it on your own way :-)

have fun!
thx to Joggl for hosting file :-)

-=GGW=- $ol!d $n4>|e · Veteran Joined: 12 Apr 2004 Posts: 1616 Location: USA

um, it emerges fine, but i cant run it... wheres the bin?

surfmasta · n00b Joined: 23 Jul 2005 Posts: 36

Hi
/usr/games/bin/glest
once you launched the game this way you can launch it by:
cd $HOME/.glest/
./glest

Vanquirius · Posted: Sun Jul 24, 2005 11:06 pm Post subject:

bug 98617
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ultraViolet · Posted: Tue Aug 23, 2005 5:11 pm Post subject:

Hi !
I have emerged succefully this game, but the problem mentionned at the very beginning of this post occurs :
it says :

flowolf · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 22 Jun 2003 Posts: 143

Same problem for me.
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kmare · Posted: Tue Aug 23, 2005 10:57 pm Post subject:

yeah... it builds a glest.ini for winDO$ by default... change it for your linux needs (I know it sucks..). Here's mine if you're interested.. I had to change some other stuff as well to make it work:

ultraViolet · Posted: Thu Aug 25, 2005 11:03 am Post subject:

Thanks, it works well for me...
Here is exactly what I needed to do :

nano -w $HOME/.glest/glest.ini

ponzio · n00b Joined: 09 Mar 2005 Posts: 41

hi, i still get the error

netshade · Posted: Fri Sep 02, 2005 4:31 pm Post subject:

kmare · Posted: Fri Sep 02, 2005 6:51 pm Post subject:

yes... it's a really cool game.. and I even managed to finally win!!!!

I just wish there was networking support...

tchak · Posted: Sun Oct 02, 2005 4:01 pm Post subject:

SteakTheMooCow · Posted: Mon Oct 03, 2005 1:05 am Post subject:

I worked out how to win with "Magic"...

As for the build it works for me, but it may be the AMD64 line heh... and I use ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~amd64"

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talles · n00b Joined: 29 Sep 2005 Posts: 29