Human Geode
January 18th, 2006, 11:34 AM
Just installed Ubuntu 5.10 on my desktop. Niiiice. It's taking a while, but I'm slowly adding in everything I need to survive. Last night I finally got America's Army 2.50 running. Thought I'd put my experiences here, maybe they will benefit someone else:
1. First step was finding the Linux client... like running in circles. Eventually found it here: http://americasarmy.filefront.com/file/AASF_Direct_Action_v25_Linux_Full_Install;49654
2. Ran the installer, started armyops. ERROR! Something about libstdc++
Solution: sudo apt-get install libstdc++5-3.3-dev
3. Next hurdle - WARNING: ALC_EXT_capture is subject to change
Solution: first of all, where to start? I searched for Ubuntu and America's Army
with the error message... but couldn't find what I was looking for. Eventually, I just searched Google for "WARNING: ALC_EXT" and found that it was a video driver problem... so what next? I found the following great tutorial for upgrading my Nvidia drivers: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=75074
4. Gettin close here: started it up, and... nope! no worky. The error message was: Servname not supported for ai socktype
Solution: rm ~/.ICEauthority
5. ran armyops ... and Success!!!
Hope this helps someone else. Thanks to all who posted, and to tseliot for the NVidia driver upgrade tutorial. I'm a midget standing on the toes of giants. ;)
1. First step was finding the Linux client... like running in circles. Eventually found it here: http://americasarmy.filefront.com/file/AASF_Direct_Action_v25_Linux_Full_Install;49654
2. Ran the installer, started armyops. ERROR! Something about libstdc++
Solution: sudo apt-get install libstdc++5-3.3-dev
3. Next hurdle - WARNING: ALC_EXT_capture is subject to change
Solution: first of all, where to start? I searched for Ubuntu and America's Army
with the error message... but couldn't find what I was looking for. Eventually, I just searched Google for "WARNING: ALC_EXT" and found that it was a video driver problem... so what next? I found the following great tutorial for upgrading my Nvidia drivers: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=75074
4. Gettin close here: started it up, and... nope! no worky. The error message was: Servname not supported for ai socktype
Solution: rm ~/.ICEauthority
5. ran armyops ... and Success!!!
Hope this helps someone else. Thanks to all who posted, and to tseliot for the NVidia driver upgrade tutorial. I'm a midget standing on the toes of giants. ;)