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Larcen
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 Posted: Mon Jul 25, 2005 10:17 pm Post subject: Neverwinter Nights, migrating from single user...... |
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| I want to take my single user install I've been running for a couple years and change it to a portage deal, where the other users on my computer can use it, and what not without me having to cp -R the install directory to everyone's user directory. If someone would be kind enough to offer some advice on how I should go about doing this, please, I am all ears. |
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russianpirate
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| Posted: Mon Jul 25, 2005 10:25 pm Post subject: |
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| well if you emerged all the games... theyll work fine as long as all users are games group.. unless u just installed it in ur home dir.. then i would reemerge all the games u did that to |
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Larcen
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| Posted: Mon Jul 25, 2005 10:36 pm Post subject: |
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| Thats the thing, I haven't emerged any of them, I installed them all manually. Into my ~ directory. |
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thunderlove
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| Posted: Mon Jul 25, 2005 11:10 pm Post subject: |
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Better to emerge -- there have been changes and bug fixes. Then just copy your older stuff over.
Anyways, to answer your question:
move it to /opt or /usr/local -- [fyi the emerge places it at /opt/nwn]
Do something like | Code: | $ su
$ cp -R /home/larcen/nwn /opt |
Then go through and change all the file owner/groups to root/game chown -R root:games /opt/nwn, remove world/group writables chmod -R og-w /opt/nwn, reset the group write on the save dirs (better, make them sticky)
One last thing: the emerge uses an old SDL lib, i presume yours does too. You will probably want to change that, too.
Finally, add a script to /usr/games/bin that cd's to /opt/nwn and starts the game.
Shouldn't be too hard 
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Larcen
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| Posted: Mon Jul 25, 2005 11:46 pm Post subject: |
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Thunderlove I cought all of that except..
| Code: | | reset the group write on the save dirs (better, make them sticky) |
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| Code: | | One last thing: the emerge uses an old SDL lib, i presume yours does too. You will probably want to change that, too. |
Could you elaborate some for me? |
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thunderlove
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| Posted: Tue Jul 26, 2005 11:53 am Post subject: |
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To play, others will need write access to certain directories. I'm not certain on all of them, but 'localvault', 'saves', and probably 'dmvault', 'tempclient', and 'servervault' will need to be chmod g+w. Otherwise, they wouldn't be able to save their games 
You might need to make 'nwplayer.ini' and 'nwn.ini' group-writeable, too. The game writes to these when changing settings (like sound and graphics options).
Re sticky: It prevents others from deleting files that don't belong to them. It's not really important, unless you don't completely trust the other users. chmod +t blahblah
Re SDL:
If you are not having problems, then don't worry about it. Nwn shipped with a version of sdl that was buggy -- many users had problems like mouse-freezes and such. OTOH, if you are having problems, then you will need to upgrade it:
/opt/nwn/lib probably has something like | Code: | libSDL-1.2.so.0 -> libSDL-1.2.so.0.0.5
libSDL-1.2.so.0.0.5 |
First, make sure you have a /usr/lib/libSDL-1.2.so.0 (it should be a link to, say, libSDL-1.2.so.0.7.1 If its not there at all, emerge libsdl)
Then, cd to /opt/nwn/lib, delete libSDL-1.2.so.0, and ln -s /usr/lib/libSDL-1.2.so.0
/opt/nwn/lib should now look something like | Code: | libSDL-1.2.so.0 -> /usr/lib/libSDL-1.2.so.0
libSDL-1.2.so.0.0.5 |
PS: If you later change your mind, you can 'undo' by deleting the link you just created, and ln -s libSDL-1.2.so.0.0.5 libSDL-1.2.so.0
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Larcen
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| Posted: Tue Jul 26, 2005 6:49 pm Post subject: |
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| Many thanks, I don't have problems with my sound as of now, only sometimes I have to killall artsd and try again. Otherwise, none. I'll give this all a try this week sometime when I have free time, and let you know how it goes. Thanks again for the advice. |
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