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Using 0.0.28.1 with WINE

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We can run new versions of TMW client using Linux without compile anything. ¿how? :mrgreen:
Using WINE

Wine is a translation layer (a program loader) capable of running Windows applications on Linux and other POSIX compatible operating systems. Windows programs running in Wine act as native programs would, running without the performance or memory usage penalties of an emulator, with a similar look and feel to other applications on your desktop. If you wanna install Wine just copy that on console.

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sudo apt-get install wine
For more information: http://winehq.org/

Once you install WINE, you can run the .EXE files of Window easy. So, we can run the Windows version installer of TMW under WINE and execute later the .exe application "tmw.exe" on our linux system.
Its more easy than do a virtual machine because you dont need to install the full windows system, wine just use Win API to run EXEs. Just Download the Windows Installer version, Install TMW on wine and later run the game!. There´s a screenshot of Wine running 0.0.28 version under Ubuntu.
http://img3.imageshack.us/img3/7164/labbx9.jpg

I hope this be useful, see ya!
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Yes, TMW works fine under Wine. I've used this method to test older clients.
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Although TMW works fine on WINE it is supposed to run on Linux natively.

When some Linux users consider it more comfortable to get the self-extracting windows installers and run tmw using a compatibility layer instead of using the intended way to install software on their distribution it is clearly a sign that there is either something wrong with their packet management systems or our packaging.
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Crush wrote:Although TMW works fine on WINE it is supposed to run on Linux natively.

When some Linux users consider it more comfortable to get the self-extracting windows installers and run tmw using a compatibility layer instead of using the intended way to install software on their distribution it is clearly a sign that there is either something wrong with their packet management systems or our packaging.
The problem is how long it can take for the package manager's repos to get the new version.
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I just consider useful both versions. (win & linux)
In ubuntu the default TMW package is 0.0.24 version, and most of users just download what they can get in repos (sudo apt-get tmw). Not everybody has time to understand what a program is, how to compile it, what kind of libraries it will use... There´s no problems with compilations, there´s an excellent guide, the source is magnificent and works!
But not everybody "skill up" and compile it, they just wanna play.

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pateame wrote:I just consider useful both versions. (win & linux)
In ubuntu the default TMW package is 0.0.24 version, and most of users just download what they can get in repos (sudo apt-get tmw). Not everybody has time to understand what a program is, how to compile it, what kind of libraries it will use... There´s no problems with compilations, there´s an excellent guide, the source is magnificent and works!
But not everybody "skill up" and compile it, they just wanna play.

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0.0.24.1 is what 8.04 has available, yes. Newer Ubtuntus have newer client versions.
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I am just a stupid Windows user after all, but is there any technical reason why it is impossible to run the most recent tmw on outdated Ubuntu versions or is it just part of the policy of the Ubuntu online software repositories not to provide software updates unless you update the whole distribution?

Isn't it possible to provide an installer packet for Ubuntu which can be downloaded with a webbrowser and installed by clicking on it?
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Crush wrote:I am just a stupid Windows user after all, but is there any technical reason why it is impossible to run the most recent tmw on outdated Ubuntu versions or is it just part of the policy of the Ubuntu online software repositories not to provide software updates unless you update the whole distribution?

Isn't it possible to provide an installer packet for Ubuntu which can be downloaded with a webbrowser and installed by clicking on it?
Under Linux/etc, libraries are (for the vast part) shared by everyone. So all programs use the same SDL binaries, for example. THe problem is with Guichan. Ubuntu 8.04 has Guichan 0.7, while TMW 0.0.25 and above need Guichan 0.8.x. Normally, this wouldn't be a problem, as you can normally keep different versions of a library with each other. Until version 0.8.0, Guichan couldn't do that (it's only forward compatible). So, 8.04 is stuck with Guichan 0.7. Platyna made some insdtructs that get around that. I updated it to the Linux compilation article on the wiki. Kr0n05 also made a script based on it for older Ubuntus. All three methods put the newer Guichan in the user's home directory, out of the normal hierarchy that everything else is in.
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There IS a way to install newer clients on Ubuntu without compiling.

Just download new packages from: http://packages.ubuntu.com/, searching for the latest release of the latest version of the distro. Download and install the .deb, it will work fine. If Ubuntu doesn't have the package yet, you can use Debian package without problem, since they are usually faster in upgrading repos: http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages . So do not worry about compiling on Linux, specially on Ubuntu.
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Shaili (a.k.a. tds) wrote:There IS a way to install newer clients on Ubuntu without compiling.

Just download new packages from: http://packages.ubuntu.com/, searching for the latest release of the latest version of the distro. Download and install the .deb, it will work fine. If Ubuntu doesn't have the package yet, you can use Debian package without problem, since they are usually faster in upgrading repos: http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages . So do not worry about compiling on Linux, specially on Ubuntu.
You're still forgetting about the Guichan problem with 8.04.
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Nope: there are working packages also for guichan 0.8.1, they work also with 8.04.

http://packages.ubuntu.com/jaunty/libs/ ... an-0.8.1-1
http://packages.ubuntu.com/jaunty/libs/ ... dl-0.8.1-1
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Shaili (a.k.a. tds) wrote:Nope: there are working packages also for guichan 0.8.1, they work also with 8.04.

http://packages.ubuntu.com/jaunty/libs/ ... an-0.8.1-1
http://packages.ubuntu.com/jaunty/libs/ ... dl-0.8.1-1
The problem is that other packages use guichan. You'd need to update all of them too. And anything that needs them, and so on.
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You can just synchronize the repo with new packages. All updates will come with synaptic. I didn't have this problem anyway. Don't forget that many people use guichan only for tmw ;)
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Shaili (a.k.a. tds) wrote:You can just synchronize the repo with new packages. All updates will come with synaptic. I didn't have this problem anyway. Don't forget that many people use guichan only for tmw ;)
Some don't. And Ubuntu doesn't make this easy. This is one reason why I prefer rolling release.
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jaxad0127 wrote:
Shaili (a.k.a. tds) wrote:You can just synchronize the repo with new packages. All updates will come with synaptic. I didn't have this problem anyway. Don't forget that many people use guichan only for tmw ;)
Some don't. And Ubuntu doesn't make this easy. This is one reason why I prefer rolling release.
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