Having Problems Installing with Ubuntu

[Shawn0531]

Hello everyone! I'm mainly a windows user, but I am thinking about switching to Ubuntu. That being said, Ubuntu can do most of what Windows can that I like, but I am having a hard time installing this for Ubuntu. Every time I make my own directory to install the game, the install completes but doesn't launch. It's so frustrating. If I can get OOTP 14 to install correctly on Linux, windows will be a thing of the past for me. So can any Linux users help me install this? I looked at the online manual and it still didn't help me.

[D-BacksJosh]

Originally Posted by Shawn0531

Hello everyone! I'm mainly a windows user, but I am thinking about switching to Ubuntu. That being said, Ubuntu can do most of what Windows can that I like, but I am having a hard time installing this for Ubuntu. Every time I make my own directory to install the game, the install completes but doesn't launch. It's so frustrating. If I can get OOTP 14 to install correctly on Linux, windows will be a thing of the past for me. So can any Linux users help me install this? I looked at the online manual and it still didn't help me.

Found a thread that might help you here.

[mattf]

What happens, specifically, when you run the install program? Are you installing in a directory which you have control over (such as /home/USER/..)? Make sure you are not using the default directory. I'm a Fedora user and the install package won't even begin using the default path. Also, great to see new converts to Linux!

Matt

[Shawn0531]

well it will install when I change the directories, but the launcher won't open. I'm not sure what I keep doing wrong though

I got this command from terminal after the install

sh: 1: /usr/bin/update-menus: not found
sh: 1: /usr/bin/update-menus: not found
sh: 1: /usr/bin/update-menus: not found
sh: 1: /usr/bin/update-menus: not found
sh: 1: /usr/bin/update-menus: not found
sh: 1: /usr/bin/update-menus: not found
sh: 1: /usr/bin/update-menus: not found
sh: 1: /usr/bin/update-menus: not found
sh: 1: /usr/bin/update-menus: not found

and this one.

shawn@shawn-p6674y:~$ '/home/shawn/Documents/Out of the Park Baseball 14/lib/ootp14'
/home/shawn/Documents/Out of the Park Baseball 14/lib/ootp14: error while loading shared libraries: libvcdcom.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

I installed the game to a directory not in root either so I don't know what's going on and the file in question is most definitely in the same folder and directory as the bin file

[mattf]

Your first issue seems to be with the package 'menu'. You probably need to remove;

$ sudo apt-get remove menu

then re-install it

$ sudo apt-get install menu

The error you are getting when running it from terminal looks like a misplaced item in the directory tree. You say you are running the executable file 'ootp14' from the path ../Out of the Park Baseball 14/lib/ootp14, but that object should be in ../Out of the Park Baseball 14/ (same location as the 'lib' folder in gui view). The script is looking for ../Out of the Park Baseball 14/lib/lib/libvcdcom.so.0 which doesn't exist. Try moving 'ootp14 up one level in the directory. I'll also run an OOTP install in an ubuntu test box to see if I can duplicate your issue.

[Shawn0531]

I tried moving it up like you said it gave me the same issue once again

EDIT: I did however install the menus with your command line

[mattf]

Two questions then.

1. If the menus are fixed, do you now have an ootp link in the menu somewhere?
2. Have you tried running ootp14.sh from terminal? The ootp14 file you were attempting to run I believe is used by the symlink in the menu to open the program whereas the .sh is the shell script that will run in the terminal.

[Shawn0531]

I didn't see a link for ootp anywhere

I got this error when trying to run ootp.14sh

shawn@shawn-p6674y:~$ '/home/shawn/Out of the Park Baseball 14/ootp14.sh'
readlink: extra operand ‘of’
Try 'readlink --help' for more information.
/home/shawn/Out of the Park Baseball 14/ootp14.sh: line 13: ./ootp14: No such file or directory

And this one again

shawn@shawn-p6674y:~$ '/home/shawn/Out of the Park Baseball 14/lib/lib/libvcdcom.so.0'
Segmentation fault (core dumped)
shawn@shawn-p6674y:~$ '/home/shawn/Out of the Park Baseball 14/lib/lib/ootp14'
/home/shawn/Out of the Park Baseball 14/lib/lib/ootp14: error while loading shared libraries: libvcdcom.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

[mattf]

Ok, I'm going to test your error later today. Can you confirm the Ubuntu version you're using? 13.04? 32 or 64 bit? Thanks,

Matt

Update: I got ootp to install and run a couple of different times. I think this is a simple syntax error. Try changing the directory ../Out of the Park Baseball 14/.. to something without spaces. I call my parent directory simply../OOTP14.

[Shawn0531]

I am using 13.04 Ubuntu 64 Bit version. I installed all the 32 bit library packages too.

I renamed the directory without spaces and I still keep getting error messages.

shawn@shawn-p6674y:~$ '/home/shawn/OOTP14/lib/lib/ootp14.sh'
./ootp14: error while loading shared libraries: libvcddec.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
shawn@shawn-p6674y:~$

Then I loaded the shell file in terminal and this error message came up

Unable to open the program data folder! Please reinstall Out of the Park Baseball.

*
* Press Return
*

Error, unable to continue...

Checking command line parameters:
Program started with command line parameters: ./ootp14
Initial $USERAPP: /home/shawn/OOTP14/lib/lib
$USERDATA: /home/shawn/OOTP14/data
$USERPREFS: /home/shawn/OOTP14/data
$USERSAVES: /home/shawn/OOTP14/data
$SYSAPP: /opt/Out of the Park Developments/OOTP Baseball 14/bin
$SYSDATA: /home/shawn/OOTP14/data
$SYSPREFS: /home/shawn/OOTP14/data

Unable to open the program data folder! Please reinstall Out of the Park Baseball.


shawn@shawn-p6674y:~$

Upon a fresh install, I was successful. Thank you for all the help you provided me Matt.

[mattf]

Great to hear. One other thing I discovered that may be useful is regarding the updates. The compressed file doesn't seem to extract correctly if you do it in the default manner. All you need to do is extract the installer.pkg file from the update you just downloaded into the /home/../data/ folder to overwrite the previous version and run the installer as if you were installing for the first time. I banged my head against the wall for a while on that one!

[Shawn0531]

Oh thanks for the tip man! the Linux version seems to load way quicker than windows

[Itchy]

Thanks guys. I've been having the same problem.

// 13.04 Ubuntu 64 Bit version //

[tds7887]

For future reference I'm a Linux guy with plenty of experience, feel free to shoot me a DM if anyone's having any issues