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General => Troubleshooting => Topic started by: jdarias on April 30, 2007, 03:42:03 am

Title: XQF 1.0.5 and Tremulous not starting as it should be.
Post by: jdarias on April 30, 2007, 03:42:03 am

Hello.
When i try to connect to a trem server via XQF, tremulous starts in a normal way, just like if you were invoking it from the Games menu. The splash screens are seen, then the trem menu, and nothing else happens.
I mean, when i use XQF to play it is supposed that trem starts trying to connect to the chosen server, right? That's my problem. It doesn't happen here. No matter if i use XQF or not, i have to use the in-game browser...
Please give me a clue to get it working...  :(

Title: XQF 1.0.5 and Tremulous not starting as it should be.
Post by: kevlarman on April 30, 2007, 04:34:51 am

you have to set the command to /path/to/tremulous +connect %s

Title: XQF 1.0.5 and Tremulous not starting as it should be.
Post by: jdarias on April 30, 2007, 05:10:31 am

Got trem from the ubuntu repos.
I tried "tremulous +connect %s" in the command line, and in the working path tried
/usr/games/tremulous
~/.tremulous
/usr/share/tremulous

and another one i cant remember.

Nothing worked. :(

Maybe getting it from the trem page and reinstall?

Title: XQF 1.0.5 and Tremulous not starting as it should be.
Post by: kevlarman on April 30, 2007, 05:20:32 am

you need the executable name, probably /usr/local/games/tremulous/tremulous.x86 if you installed the .run file from the website

Title: XQF 1.0.5 and Tremulous not starting as it should be.
Post by: jdarias on April 30, 2007, 05:31:31 am

I'm starting to think this is a problem with trem from the repos. Theres no tremulous.x86 here.

i only found a binary without x86 extension in /usr/lib/tremulous wich is 1.4 MiB. Doubleclicking this file does nothing, but there's a tremulous script in /usr/games, wich launches the game.

Title: XQF 1.0.5 and Tremulous not starting as it should be.
Post by: kevlarman on April 30, 2007, 05:39:01 am

yeah, the debian package maintainer did a pretty bad job with that package, so even though i normally hate installing packages that aren't in the repos, i was pretty much forced to for tremulous (but i also have like 30 copies of the tremulous source on my laptop :P). in the debian package the executable is /usr/lib/tremulous/tremulous. the script in /usr/games/ strips all the arguments though, so you can't use it.

Title: XQF 1.0.5 and Tremulous not starting as it should be.
Post by: jdarias on April 30, 2007, 05:58:53 am

So i have to redownload and reinstall it... mang :x
It's the only game iĺl have to dld three times!!
1º when i first got it
2º when i updated to feisty (feisty updates it just because the debs are not feisty labeled. duh)
3º and now to get it right...

Not cool :evil:

So the moral is not to get it from the repos if you're on ubuntu. that blows...

Title: XQF 1.0.5 and Tremulous not starting as it should be.
Post by: Caveman on April 30, 2007, 06:27:48 am

Quote from: "jdarias"

So the moral is not to get it from the repos if you're on ubuntu. that blows...

So the moral is NOT do use the repo if you want a multiplayer game that still is in development :)