Secret Maryo Chronicles is in the Gutsy Repo's! (+important install note)

[Ubuntiac]

WOO HOO!

After all this time, my favourite linux game Secret Maryo Chronicles (http://www.secretmaryo.org)(a very cool, high res, GPL3, alternate version of Mario Brothers) is in the repo's!

http://i234.photobucket.com/albums/ee164/gorrgot/1.png

No more figuring out missing libraries from the only app that ever convinced me to compile anything. Joy! There's only one problem:

:shock:Ubuntu's repositories have an error that installs the wrong dependency! :shock:

When you install the game (called "SMC" in repos) make sure that you *also* select libcegui-mk2-1-dev (synaptic / adept have the non -dev version incorrectly as the dependency)

The versions also kind of old, but still about the most single player fun I've had on my (K)ubuntu machines.

Go crazy kids! :lolflag:

PS If anyone knows who we'd talk to to get the dependency changed, *please* post here. The package lists Ubuntu MOTU developers as the maintainer, but the MOTU games group has been disbanded?!

[disturbedite]

newer version (http://www.getdeb.net/app.php?name=Secret%20Maryo%20Chronicles) (1.0) has been available for a while on getdeb.

[Ubuntiac]

Ewww! And there's no menu item for it! Still... It's a (great) start!

Run it just by going to the terminal / konsole and typing SMC (enter)

[Ubuntiac]

disturbedite@ True! That version worked great on my Feisty machine. Wouldn't install at all on my Gutsy (testing) system. I was thinking I'd have to wait for getdeb to update, which is why I was so happy to see it already in the repos. :D

[Crafty Kisses]

WOO HOO!

After all this time, my favourite linux game Secret Maryo Chronicles (http://www.secretmaryo.org)(a very cool, high res, GPL3, alternate version of Mario Brothers) is in the repo's!

http://i234.photobucket.com/albums/ee164/gorrgot/1.png

No more figuring out missing libraries from the only app that ever convinced me to compile anything. Joy! There's only one problem:

:shock:Ubuntu's repositories have an error that installs the wrong dependency! :shock:

When you install the game (called "SMC" in repos) make sure that you *also* select libcegui-mk2-1-dev (synaptic / adept have the non -dev version incorrectly as the dependency)

The versions also kind of old, but still about the most single player fun I've had on my (K)ubuntu machines.

Go crazy kids! :lolflag:

PS If anyone knows who we'd talk to to get the dependency changed, *please* post here. The package lists Ubuntu MOTU developers as the maintainer, but the MOTU games group has been disbanded?!
Cool!

[cogadh]

Ewww! And there's no menu item for it! Still... It's a (great) start!

Run it just by going to the terminal / konsole and typing SMC (enter)
You can create your own menu entry, you know.

[Crafty Kisses]

You can create your own menu entry, you know.

That's super cool dude. :KS

[Ubuntiac]

You can create your own menu entry, you know.

I know I can... (in fact have) but a lot newbies wouldn't know how to find the program and stick it in a menu item. I remember being stunned when I first used ubuntu and installed a .deb only to have no idea where it went.

Ahhh... those were the days! None of this fancy pants shiny 3d desktop stuff... CLI? Wimps! We started *our* apps in *binary code!* ;)

[cogadh]

Ha! That's nothing, back when I first started using Linux, I had Slackware installed from 27 floppy disks. Package repositories? Nothing doing, we had to compile all our apps from scratch... ah, memories.

Man, am I glad those days are gone! :smile:

[Crafty Kisses]

Ha! That's nothing, back when I first started using Linux, I had Slackware installed from 27 floppy disks. Package repositories? Nothing doing, we had to compile all our apps from scratch... ah, memories.

Man, am I glad those days are gone! :smile:

That's the definition of l337, haha. :KS

[BigSilly]

I spotted this in the repository too, but sadly it's an old version. :( Top, top fun, but worth waiting for GetDeb to update with a new version for us Gutsy users. I have the new one on my Mandriva install (they have the new one on their repos!) and it's even better now.

[El Zoido]

I cant find libcegui-mk2-1-dev in the repository...

[por100pre1]

I cant find libcegui-mk2-1-dev in the repository...

It should be libcegui-mk2-dev:

sudo apt-get install libcegui-mk2-dev

BTW, great tip Ubuntiac!

[El Zoido]

It worked, thanks!

[Ubuntiac]

BTW, great tip Ubuntiac!

Thanks! By the way I just noticed:
GetDeb.net has updated its SMC package to the latest version (1.2)!

They have 32 and 64 bit versions. You can download them from the link below:
Click here for SMC v1.2 .debs at GetDeb.net (http://www.getdeb.net/app.php?name=Secret+Maryo+Chronicles) :popcorn:

Not sure if it includes the game music pack from secretmaryo.org (http://secretmaryo.org) or not...

[BigSilly]

Installed this just great from GetDeb, and yes you do need to manually install the music pack zip file. Just extract it somewhere, then copy it into SMC's music directory, and Bob's your uncle.

[Ubuntiac]

Just for the record (I think) the path to copy the music to is:

/ust/local/share/smc

I think it *may* vary depending on if you compiled or used getdeb. Can anyone confirm how they installed and where the music went?

[BigSilly]

Yes. Drop the whole extracted music data package into:

usr/share/games/smc/music

That's what I did anyway. Hope this helps.

[sub2007]

You can also get an up to date version, with music by adding this repository to Synaptic:

https://edge.launchpad.net/~berteh/+archive ;)

[Ubuntiac]

Hey, SMC just made GetDeb's top 10! Mind you, I suspect at least part of that could be because the repo's don't install fully working (yet)!

Still, very cool. Roll on v1.3!

[Virgilius]

No wonder the window for SMC opens and rthen closes after I type smc in the Terminal :lolflag:

[elasto1mania]

Hello,
I installed the lastest smc 1.4.1 but i cannot start it.
Help please.

[PLiNkO]

Installing with these instructions worked for me.

http://gaming.gwos.org/doku.php/guides:32bit:secretmaryochronicles

[PC_load_letter]

Installing with these instructions worked for me.

http://gaming.gwos.org/doku.php/guides:32bit:secretmaryochronicles

+1, and I followed the amd64 instruction. With Feisty, I got an error like "libGL cannot be found", but that was nothing a symbolic link couldn't fix ;)
Great game by the way and runs flawlessly even under Fiesty. Oh, one more thing, the first time I ran it, it took a while loading maps, closed it then it refused to display anything but a black screen after that. FIX: turned off the GL Desktop. Now it runs flawlessly! 8)

[Artificial Intelligence]

follow the 64-bit guide instead, works well for 32-bit also. I don't update the 32-bit anymore, because I've moved to 64-bit. Mainly with Open Source + compiling there's no diffrences

[forrestcupp]

Well, the good news is that Hardy has SMC 1.4-1 in the repos and the dependency bug has been fixed, so you just have to install it and it works. It's too bad they still don't have it worked out so the package will create a menu entry, though. You still have to type smc in the terminal, or make your own entry.

The new version is way better than what I played a while back in Gutsy (or maybe it was Feisty).