EVE Online

CrazyIvanMN · n00b Joined: 20 Feb 2007 Posts: 45

I've never written an ebuild before, and I probably didn't do his right, but here it is:

games-rpg/eveonline-000062.ebuild

ShadowIce · n00b Joined: 12 May 2002 Posts: 20 Location: Germany

Hehe, I wrote one as well... https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=198274

My RDEPEND is mostly what is included in the cedega ebuild. I just removed glade, because it seems to work without that as well.
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CrazyIvanMN · n00b Joined: 20 Feb 2007 Posts: 45

I like yours better

except.. I think you should name it with the version number of the download..

then update your SRC_URI to
SRC_URI="http://ccp.vo.llnwd.net/o2/linux/eve-${PV}.tgz"

i.e. change the name from
eve-online-0.62-r1.ebuild
to
eve-online-000062-r1.ebuild

just a thought anyway

I unmerged mine, and emerged yours.. but.. I think I certainly screwed something up.. I'd deleted the EVE Online directory outta my ~/.cedega directory.. but appearently there some other stuff that gets setup..

I did already have a full cedega installation and subscription.. which is why I didn't delete the whole ~/.cedega folder.. Now I'm backing up my ~/.cedega folder, to remove the whole thing, and I'll try running it again.

(appearently it takes a while to bzip2 3.5 gigs)

ShadowIce · n00b Joined: 12 May 2002 Posts: 20 Location: Germany

Yeah, you are right. Changed it.

And there are some hidden files and directorys in ~/.cedega/ so "rm * -R" in it won't delete everything.

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CrazyIvanMN · n00b Joined: 20 Feb 2007 Posts: 45

okay.. after removing my entire ~/.cedega directory, and using your latest ebuild (that uses the ${PV} in the SRC_URI)..

now it works fine.. and I noticed the 'EVE Online Configuration' thing in the Gnome Applications->Games.. w00t.

I run eve in a window, instead of full screen (the default), so in configure, on the general tab, I set 'Run In Window" to 1680x1050 (just type it in it's not an option.. I have a widescreen monitor, a pair of em actually), and unchecked DXGrab, so my mouse can leave the window.

and w00t.. exactly how eve was running before as far as screen layout..

I did notice in my first tests, some issues still haven't been resolved, or didn't appear to be anyway.. Numpad still doesn't work for typing numbers *cries*, and I still can't copy/paste from eve.. but I've been living with that for about a year now anyway, so I guess it's not a big deal.

JeffBlair · Posted: Tue Nov 06, 2007 8:53 pm Post subject:

Thanks for the ebuild guy's.. I'm downloading the package now. I've been using Wine to run it and it was running ok most of the time. I guess we'll see if this one is any better.

vputz · Posted: Tue Nov 06, 2007 9:31 pm Post subject:

Hmm, tried the ebuild and it just sits there if I execute eve from the command line:

ShadowIce · n00b Joined: 12 May 2002 Posts: 20 Location: Germany

You could try to run "eve -config" and see if you get anything there. If yes you can run some tests there that might give a clue why eve won't start.
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vputz · Posted: Tue Nov 06, 2007 11:06 pm Post subject:

ShadowIce · n00b Joined: 12 May 2002 Posts: 20 Location: Germany

Hmm maybe....I have an AMD64 (dual core) and use Xfce. I have some minor problems (e.g. the client only uses one core, even if I start a second client and the mouse only works in the last started client if I start more then one) but it's playable.
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CrazyIvanMN · n00b Joined: 20 Feb 2007 Posts: 45

hmm

So now I'm trying to get the multiple clients to work.. I followed these instructions:
Multiple clients

The part I'm hung up on.. is can you create a gnome launcher that will do the 'export CEDEGA_PATH=...' first?

I put that command line in the 'command' property of a gnome launcher.. and.. no dice

it does work from the command line however.

So.. short of modifying the startup script in /usr/bin/eve to take like command line arguments or something (which I may do), is there a way in gnome to run that command from a launcher?

Kate Monster · Posted: Wed Nov 07, 2007 3:44 am Post subject:

PEETIE · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 28 Mar 2004 Posts: 144

I won't be purchasing the Linux version of Eve from Transgaming, nor anything from them for that matter. They've taken a dump on their Linux Cedega subscribers lately, as shown here in the lack of support(I guess maybe their too busy supporting new native app ports to Mac).

http://www.cedega.com/postlist.php?forum=1262

This seems to be the consensus from other users as well.

http://www.cedega.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=8924
http://www.cedega.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=9034

I urge all Linux users to avoid Transgaming and vote with your wallets, these guys aren't very community friendly.

ShadowIce · n00b Joined: 12 May 2002 Posts: 20 Location: Germany

PEETIE · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 28 Mar 2004 Posts: 144

only for 14 days according to their website

ShadowIce · n00b Joined: 12 May 2002 Posts: 20 Location: Germany

Yes of course you still have to pay CCP for eve after your trial runs out (which is 14 days). But that's a different thing and it won't cost more just because you are playing under Linux/MacOS instead of Windows.
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bunder · Bodhisattva Joined: 10 Apr 2004 Posts: 5935

i crash while undocking... have reason to believe it's partially ati at fault... anyone else crashing?
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bos_mindwarp · Posted: Wed Nov 07, 2007 7:23 pm Post subject:

I played since 2003 (old school ftw), was pirate, then joined BoB. Got burned out after Great Northern War, it wasn't healthy how much we played, so I stopped. Gave my main character to one of the mates.

CrazyIvanMN · n00b Joined: 20 Feb 2007 Posts: 45

meeneque · n00b Joined: 15 Oct 2004 Posts: 26

Hmm i'm getting somethink like that

ShadowIce · n00b Joined: 12 May 2002 Posts: 20 Location: Germany

Check the file size and md5, they should be: 874.212 / 28f806f29b4e40c8acdc11c411f2342d
If they are the same try to manually unpack the tgz (tar -xzvf eve-000062.tgz).
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meeneque · n00b Joined: 15 Oct 2004 Posts: 26

I installed it manually beforem but couldn't get it running anyway, I thought this trick with the ebuild may help me

I also tried to start EVE under wine-0.9.48 but there seems be some problem with d3d, eve is very slow and i 'm getting text focused in every other window except EVE

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vputz · Posted: Fri Nov 09, 2007 10:06 pm Post subject:

Incidentally my problem was indeed with wmii. Emerged fluxbox and started a session of that and it started downloading like mad and threatening to bust my college network bandwidth limit, so once I learn how to throttle I'll give it another go. Somewhat frustrating, but maybe Eve proper will play in wmii so I can push it around like everything else (muhaha).

meeneque · n00b Joined: 15 Oct 2004 Posts: 26

Just updated to .49 and it works great with minor problems. Audio is perfect and It even works with ventrilo

terrylava · n00b Joined: 04 Jan 2007 Posts: 8

When I try to install it with the ebuild it says that the ebuild is corrupted. Since nobody else has reported this problem, I believe I must be doing something wrong. Does anyone have any ideas?