** Please note this a a copy of a post I placed in the offcial doomsday forums **
G'day.
I'm please to announce the availablity of new Doomsday packages for Debian Sarge and for Ubuntu Hoary. More information on what has been packaged is available here http://eyagi.bpa.nu/~jamie/doomsday.html. Please note that the repository HAS moved, and updated details are on that page.
What's new in this release: I have done some packaging cleanups, I've added .desktop files, and I've fixed an annoying typo that actually prevented the deng-jdoom-ep pack from actually working (I can't believe no one noticed it ?). At the time of writing the engine, support files, iwad installers and all the jpacks have finished autobuilding and are available for download. The pwads are currently queued and will autobuild over the next few days.
Currently only i386 packages are working. I built amd64 but due to some issues it segfaults on startup. powerpc and other Debian arch users, feel free to apt-get source deng and build it yourself, or show me how to get Debian/Ubuntu installed in an emulator for your arch, and I'll build them myself.
Those of you who have downloaded this before have probally realised I actually host this on my home ADSL line. So in advance, big packs are likely to be slow. I strongly recommend to start with you download the iwad installers, and deng first, and download the jpacks overnight.
amd64 users:
* I have tested this in an Ubuntu Hoary i386 chroot on an Ubuntu Hoary amd64 system with nvidia binary drivers and it works fine for me.
* I have tested this in an Debian Sarge i386 chroot on an Ubuntu Hoary amd64 system with nvidia binary drivers. It can not find openGL drivers and isn't really playable because of graphics corruption.
* If you run this on an amd64 system, in an i386 chroot, with nvidia drivers, and have graphics corruption caused by deng not finding you drivers, this can be fixed by copying 32bit versions of your nvidia drivers to your chroot and running
Code:
export LD_PRELOAD="/home/jamie/libGL.so.1.0.7174 /home/jamie/libGLcore.so.1.0.7174 /home/jamie/libnvidia-tls.so.1.0.7174"
to load 32 nvidia drivers. Make sure you bind mount /dev in your chroot. It's a kludge.
*** If you run this in a chroot, you don't get a nice menu to load deng. To load deng you can look in usr/share/applications for any desktop file starting with deng, eg doom2 is deng-iwad-doom2-installer.desktop. If you open that file you will see a line starting Exec= copy and paste everything after the Exec= into a new terminal to load doomsday. Anyone care to supply a script to automatically do this ?
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