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ccrunner84 · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 14 Jul 2003 Posts: 77

Have problem, not sure what to do exactly...

I can cd /usr/games/bin and type ./et and it'll run

if I just type et say in Run in KDE it won't do anyting, how can I get it to work with just a shortcut? its worked before.. chmod it? cuz im all outta ideas...

pross · Posted: Sat Aug 16, 2003 1:08 am Post subject:

make sure you are in the 'games' group then /usr/games/bin will be added to your PATH

ccrunner84 · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 14 Jul 2003 Posts: 77

nope, when i just type et at the shell it says if you see this message.. blah blah something is wrong.. but I don't believe that because I can cd to the dir and ./et and it runs fine.. what gives.. lol

prower · n00b Joined: 08 Aug 2003 Posts: 63

Well, you're probably going to have to be a bit more specific than that, otherwise I don't think anyone's going to be able to figure out the answer ;>

RangerDude · Guru Joined: 19 Apr 2003 Posts: 301

Try running it in a terminal (as option in shortcut). It sounds like a familliar quake3/KDE problem.

ccrunner84 · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 14 Jul 2003 Posts: 77

I can do that.. by cd /usr/games/bin then ./et but I cannot just type et in run and get it to work like it always did..

Celtis · l33t Joined: 05 Jul 2003 Posts: 737

What I think RangerDude meant was just type in et in a terminal and then you can copy / paste the exact error message

neenee · Veteran Joined: 20 Jul 2003 Posts: 1786

replace the contents of the /opt/enemy-territory/et script
with the following:

#!/bin/sh
# Needed to make symlinks/shortcuts work.
# the binaries must run with correct working directory
cd "/opt/enemy-territory"
./et.x86 $*
exit $?

and perhaps do a chown -R user /opt/enemy-territory.

good luck and enjoy ET.

vvizard · Posted: Sun Aug 17, 2003 12:54 pm Post subject:

It shouldn't be necessary to chown anything if you used the ebuild. As root, edit /etc/group, and add your username to the games group. Then logout/login, and it should work.

xcham · Posted: Sun Aug 24, 2003 8:35 pm Post subject:

It's strange, some games rely on the CWD being a certain dir with certain files... or in a relative path to the CWD... try creating a script like this, call it "runet"

#!/bin/sh
cd /usr/games/bin
./et

stick it in /usr/local/bin and chmod +x runet

Kinda similar to what neenee suggested but I think the ebuild might install things differently under gentoo... dunno though, I don't play ET.

then type "runet" at the KDE run menu... I remember I had a similar problem with quake1 on my slack box.

ccrunner84 · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 14 Jul 2003 Posts: 77

and another thing is that ET takes forever to load up...