Installing on RedHat Fedora system HELP

someone else · Post by **someone else** » Mon Mar 27, 2006 2:59 am

Hey all, I have BZFlag 2.0.4 installed on windows which has crashed on me bigtime, and now want to play it on my linux system, problem is I am very new with linux. I need help installing it as when i use the ./configure command i get told it cant configure it

This is what terminal does....
[beany@localhost beany]$ cd bzflag-2.0.4.20050930-i386-Opkg
[beany@localhost bzflag-2.0.4.20050930-i386-Opkg]$ ./ configure
bash: ./: is a directory
[beany@localhost bzflag-2.0.4.20050930-i386-Opkg]$ ./configure
bash: ./configure: No such file or directory
[beany@localhost bzflag-2.0.4.20050930-i386-Opkg]$

Can anyone help me cos i miss playing it

A Meteorite · Post by **A Meteorite** » Mon Mar 27, 2006 5:07 am

There is no ./configure in an OBLISK package, if you want to compile from source get the source package or use CVS.

But you can still use the OBLISK package. Do "./Install" to install or to run bzflag directly from the folder use "./bzflag". Use "ls" to list all contents (no quotes).

Hope that helps!

pyr0 · Post by **pyr0** » Mon Mar 27, 2006 2:45 pm

use cvs and compile it, i didnt think going from 2.0.4 to 2.0.5 would make the fps better since i was almost maxed from my moniter and it has a ton more effects, but i gained about 10 fps.

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cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/bzflag login
cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/bzflag co -r v2_0branch bzflag

when it asks for a password, press enter, there isnt one.
go into the directory it gets downloaded too (/homedir/bzflag/ i believe), run ./autogen.sh if ls doesnt show a configure script. then ./configure and make and make install. all better...

i think thats right, its early and im just waking up
-pyr0

someone else · Post by **someone else** » Mon Mar 27, 2006 8:59 pm

Ya might think me of dumb, but am really a newbie at linux...but what is CVS?
i tried running your code in terminal, and ths is the result i got

[beany@localhost beany]$ cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/bzflag co -r v2_0branch bzflag
bash: cvs: command not found

Do i need to run that command in the bzflag directory

A Meteorite · Post by **A Meteorite** » Mon Mar 27, 2006 10:11 pm

someone else
You need to have cvs installed, but do not bother with that right at this moment.

Use the package you already downloaded (go to the bzflag-2.0.4.20050930-i386-Opkg folder and execute bzflag there - ./bzflag - or use ./Install to install it)

someone else · Post by **someone else** » Mon Mar 27, 2006 11:40 pm

Hey tried installing it, got a screen full of stuff and then finally this.

Could not download library libcurl.so.3.
/tmp/msg.20179 (END)

Tanner · Post by **Tanner** » Tue Mar 28, 2006 1:53 am

someone else wrote:Hey tried installing it, got a screen full of stuff and then finally this.

Could not download library libcurl.so.3.
/tmp/msg.20179 (END)

That looks familar to me. If you find the answer, tell me and vice versa for me to you.

-Tanner

A Meteorite · Post by **A Meteorite** » Tue Mar 28, 2006 4:57 am

someone else
What distribution are you using? And can you run BZFlag directly using?

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./bzflag

someone else · Post by **someone else** » Tue Mar 28, 2006 8:53 am

hey im using fedora core2,

[beany@localhost beany]$ cd /home/beany/bzflag
[beany@localhost bzflag]$ ./bzflag
bash: ./bzflag: No such file or directory
[beany@localhost bzflag]$

I got cvs installed and oblisk installed....no idea what to do with them

cheers for any help

A Meteorite · Post by **A Meteorite** » Tue Mar 28, 2006 4:10 pm

someone else wrote:hey im using fedora core2,

[beany@localhost beany]$ cd /home/beany/bzflag
[beany@localhost bzflag]$ ./bzflag
bash: ./bzflag: No such file or directory
[beany@localhost bzflag]$

I got cvs installed and oblisk installed....no idea what to do with them

cheers for any help

If you downloaded CVS using these commands:

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cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/bzflag login
cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/bzflag co -r v2_0branch bzflag

Then all you need to do is:

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cd bzflag (like before)
./autogen.sh
./configure
make
sudo make install

After this is done, just execute:

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bzflag

someone else · Post by **someone else** » Wed Mar 29, 2006 11:08 am

I have tried to do that.....but this is what i get.....sorry bear with me as I am very new at linux....just starting to find my way about

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[beany@localhost beany]$  cd /home/beany/bzflag
[beany@localhost bzflag]$ ./autogen.sh
Found GNU Autoconf version 2.57
 
ERROR: Unable to locate GNU Automake.
 
ERROR:  To prepare the BZFlag build system from scratch,
        at least version 1.6.0 of GNU Automake must be installed.
 
./autogen.sh does not need to be run on the same machine that will
run configure or make.  Either the GNU Autotools will need to be installed
or upgraded on this system, or ./autogen.sh must be run on the source
code on another system and then transferred to here. -- Cheers!
[beany@localhost bzflag]$

pyr0 · Post by **pyr0** » Wed Mar 29, 2006 5:47 pm

might want to get all of the auto tools sets ... Automake, Autoconf and libtool (i think)...
http://www.gnu.org/software/automake/
http://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/
http://www.gnu.org/software/libtool/

but, since your using fedora, look for prebuilt rpms, itll speed up the process...
http://rpmfind.net/linux/rpm2html/searc ... mit=Search+...

and search for the rest there... or just use fedoras program, forgot what it is, that downloads and installs rpms for you... (havent used fedora in a long time, gentoo and debian man myself)