[GRLUG] FreedroidRPG

[Marc Zuverink]

Greg Folkert wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-02-09 at 20:31 -0500, Marc Zuverink wrote:
>   
>> Any Ubuntu users out there manage to get FreedroidRPG to compile in
>> Edgy?  Being a noob of sorts I cant seem to find the sdl lib that it
>> requires.  Its my daughters favorite game and Ubuntu ships with only
>> Freedroid(not RPG) .  I would assume that all the sdl libs are there
>> since its the same sound files, any help would greatly be appreciated.
>>     
>
> Why compile it from raw CVS. There is a Debian source package you could
> easily smack around o get to work:
>
> http://packages.debian.org/unstable/source/freedroidrpg
>
> The build-dep for it is:
>
>         cdbs libgl1-mesa-dev libglu1-mesa-dev libglu1-xorg-dev
>         libjpeg62-dev libogg-dev libpng12-dev libsdl-image1.2-dev
>         libsdl-mixer1.2-dev libsdl-net1.2-dev libsdl1.2-dev libsmpeg-dev
>         libtiff4-dev libtiffxx0c2 libvorbis-dev libx11-dev libxau-dev
>         libxdmcp-dev libxext-dev  x11proto-core-dev x11proto-input-dev
>         x11proto-kb-dev x11proto-xext-dev xtrans-dev zlib1g-dev
>         
> BTW here is the "apt-cache show freedroidrpg"
>
> princess:~# apt-cache show freedroidrpg
> Package: freedroidrpg
> Priority: optional
> Section: games
> Installed-Size: 1004
> Maintainer: Bart Martens <bartm at knars.be>
> Architecture: i386
> Version: 0.10.0+d070110-1
> Depends: libc6 (>= 2.3.6-6), libgl1-mesa-glx | libgl1, libjpeg62, 
>          libogg0 (>= 1.1.3), libpng12-0 (>= 1.2.13-4), 
>          libsdl-image1.2 (>= 1.2.5), libsdl-mixer1.2 (>= 1.2.6), 
>          libsdl-net1.2, libsdl1.2debian (>= 1.2.10-1), 
>          libvorbis0a (>= 1.1.2), zlib1g (>= 1:1.2.1), freedroidrpg-data
> Filename: pool/main/f/freedroidrpg/freedroidrpg_0.10.0+d070110-1_i386.deb
> Size: 359284
> MD5sum: 481b3a4d8990580209962eeaea25203c
> SHA1: b0f68d063e32bf3a91aa49f463eb239462471e0d
> SHA256: 3f91c0e2de6b6249fa2dddfbcc7c1dabcd750b2b14555daf8998b2eb54f3581a
> Description: An isometric RPG influenced by Paradroid
>  Freedroid RPG is an RPG with isometric graphics. In it, the player
>  is Tux, who must fight rebelling robots in order to restore peace to
>  humankind. To do so,Tux may take over robots in a minigame based off the
>  classic game Paradroid, or may simply blast them to pieces with a weapon.
>  .
>  Note that this is not the same game as Freedroid, also available in Debian.
>  .
>   Homepage: http://freedroid.sourceforge.net/
>
>
> So, I guess you really only need to get the source package and do a
> dpkg-buildpackage and fix the issues in $SOURCEDIR/debian/control
>
> GL.
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I managed to get things all sorted out on my own and checkinstalled my
own .deb.
Thanks for the assistance though.

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Marc Zuverink <mzuverink at gmail.com>

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