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Rory
August 17th, 2005, 08:04 PM
Hi,

Noticed today that Planet Penguin Racer is taking over from Tux Racer as the open source alternative.
http://entertainment.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=05/08/09/147224&from=rss

And it appears that most distros, including Debian via apt-get, have packages:
http://projects.planetpenguin.de/racer/downloads.php

Any idea how I might be able to get PP Racer going on Ubuntu/Kubuntu?

Thanks,
Rory
arcanistherogue
August 17th, 2005, 08:37 PM
Wow, this looks awesome. I love TuxRacer, I want to know how to get this too.
Nightblade
August 17th, 2005, 08:44 PM
I've got it running, just got it from CVS and compiled.
Rory
August 17th, 2005, 10:37 PM
Yes, I've tried compiling from source but keep running in to dependency problems. :(

Any idea how to go about getting a package built for an ubuntu repository so it is available, like it in in Debian/Fedora/SuSE/etc?
Nightblade
August 18th, 2005, 09:31 AM
Yes, I've tried compiling from source but keep running in to dependency problems. :(

Any idea how to go about getting a package built for an ubuntu repository so it is available, like it in in Debian/Fedora/SuSE/etc?
I would but i have no clue how to do it :/
Hairy_Palms
August 18th, 2005, 07:42 PM
the debian package works for me,
Jonah
August 26th, 2005, 02:03 AM
Installing from the 0.3.1 source tarball, when I try to ./configure I get:
[...]
checking for GL library... no
checking for GL library (with pthreads)... no
checking for MesaGL library... no
checking for MesaGL library (with pthreads)... no
checking for opengl32 library... no
checking for opengl32 library (with pthreads)... no
*** Hmm, you don't seem to have OpenGL libraries installed in the standard
*** location (/usr/lib). I'll check in /usr/X11R6/lib, since
*** many distributions (incorrectly) put OpenGL libs there.
checking for GL library... no
checking for GL library (with pthreads)... no
checking for MesaGL library... no
checking for MesaGL library (with pthreads)... no
checking for opengl32 library... no
checking for opengl32 library (with pthreads)... no
configure: error: Cannot find GL library
I have xlibmesa-gl-dev installed, so what am I missing?

Edit: Never mind. I installed the .deb, and it seems to work.