apt-get a secondlife

[ibanez]

Somebody is building and maintaining debs for secondlife now...
& have to say they work alot better than the linden tarballs :)

The website is here
http://www.byteme.org.uk/secondlife/apt-get-a-secondlife.html

along with repo addresses
they seem to keep on top of official linden releases too , If you play SL and have trouble with videos or voice these may help you.

[exneo002]

nice!

[robincornelius]

Hey, thats me!

Glad the debs work for you.

Is there any *official* ubuntu effort to get secondlife or associated missing libraries into ubuntu at all? My primary effort is Debian but it makes a lot of sense for us to work together where common effort can be shared.

Currently as well as secondlife on debian we are missing xmlrpc-epi, openjpeg and libllmozlib. openjpeg is well on its way to being included. xmlrpc is a bit of a problem as upstream is dead BUT php5 use a (patched) version of the code. Trying to find out what other distros are doing about xmlrpc-epi and if its worth doing an upstream fork to maintain a sane build for both PHP5 and secondlife (and anyone else who is using it?. libllmozlib again i am working on, but other input is welcome.

The long and short of it is, if there is a ubuntu developer/packager who wants to work on these packages I will be glad to work together with them.

Regards

Robin

[Wobedraggled]

What's the benefit of grabbing these vs. the client from the Linden site?

and is it the standard client, or windlight?

[robincornelius]

The benefits are :-

A number of stability and bug fix patches, is the biggest.

ONLY free/open source components, there are no non free dependencies. This means openal for sound, gstreamer for streaming audio and video.

There are i386/amd64 and powerpc builds available.

The packages can auto update with apt-get upgrade or your favorite package manager.

Hopefully, it will pull in all required dependencies on your system automatically as it seems many have trouble with the linden tarballs due to missing packages etc.

And both current release AND release candidate (in this case windlight) are now available.

Disadvantages are :-

No voice out of the box, voice is a non free component, but as it connects to the viewer via TCP/IP it an be added by the end user.

Robin

[Wobedraggled]

I gave it a go, I must say stability is great.

I love the look of the fonts and everything, good work.

[Vadi]

I just get them from getdeb.net...

[robincornelius]

Getdeb seem to be distributing a "downloader" that just pulls the tarball from secondlife.com and extracts it somewhere for you (and probably gives you a menu/icon etc).

Thats fair enough and gives you a true "linden" viewer with no modifications. It would seem reasonable you could install mine and getdeb's at the same time which would be nice to spot little difference and compare stability and performance.

Robin

[chewearn]

I wish I could: apt-get install a-second-life

with a patch for more $$$
:lolflag:

sorry, can't resist...

[Crinos512]

I refuse to get a Second life until after I get a First one!

:P

[reyfer]

I like this, a lot, but there's one thing I don't like: every 12 to 15 seconds, everything freezes for a second or two, and then back to normal. And I have noticed that even though the voice thing is not active in this, if I run this client, exit and then run the Linden client, voice is activated, if I turn voice off on the linden client, run this client and then open the linden client again, voice has been activated again. It did not happen before installing this client (from repos), so I guess it is something inside the client that triggers the voice activation (even though the client itself says voice is not activated).

Could it be possible that whatever is activating voice is responsible for the freezings? I am using Kubuntu 7.10, 1.5 Gigs memory, Nvidia GeForce 5500 video card, latest Nvidia drivers.

[HunterK]

"sudo apt-get a life!"

Someone should totally design a T-shirt with that line on it! Then have an Ubuntu logo on the back or something. HAhahahah:)

[reyfer]

Well, I do have a life. I have my own Eco-adventure travel company, I am consultant with several organizations in the field of eco-tourism, etc... But secondlife helps me relax and forget a little about the insanities of the real world. The ones that should get a life are those patronizing individuals that think that just because THEY think something is not useful, EVERYBODY must think like them.

[kougaru]

Disadvantages are :-

No voice out of the box, voice is a non free component, but as it connects to the viewer via TCP/IP it an be added by the end user.

Robin

Is there any particular way to add voice to the apt-get client? I'm having issues with the linden client getting voice to work :\

[zFire]

Why does mine say "window creation error"? I cant get secondlife to run deb file or from linden!!
Its all installed! Why wont it open?

[Vadi]

It looks like a bug in the game. Can you tell us the whole error that it says?

[keith11]

I downloaded and installed the latest version of SL client, on Kubuntu 8.10, from the suggested Web site, added whatever was required to add in the sources' list, updated, installed, and then again installed the openviewer; everything suggested in the post. But once I sign in, the screen goes black, and leaves only a small crosshair on the screen - my systems hangs(?!) and the Keyboard stops responding. I can't even switch to another console. I have to shutdown the system using the power button, as everything else doesn't respond.

Does someone know about this issue and how to fix it? Also, if I choose the same file to log the chat, in Vista and Kubuntu, will one overwrite the other? Thanks...

Keith

[Naiki Muliaina]

Works fine on my Ubuntu and Xubuntu intrepid 64 bit installs. Playdebs never seemed to work on my 64bit installs. Thankyou very much for the link!

[OrangeCrate]

I wish I could: apt-get install a-second-life

with a patch for more $$$
:lolflag:

sorry, can't resist...

:)