Installing Zero K into opensuse 11.3

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FarShot83 13 years ago to install into linux systems the instructions are extremely vague. I'm new to linux and dont know what anything is really. I know it sounds like I'm the problem here but honestly if the instructions aren't precise then how can you expect people to play. To "get the engine" it takes you through 3 pages then to a list of about 15 .rpm's. which am I supposed to use?? Then it says to get python/pip and rapid downloader... when i google it it says there are TWO versions of python??? Then it says to run a command but I dont know where to run it?? I think that maybe a bit more detail is required here. If anyone can give me some advice I would greatly appreciate it. Please dont say stick with windows7 either. lol +0 / -0
luckywaldo7 13 years ago Give me about a day to install opensuse onto a virtual machine so I can try installing and see if I can come up with a better set of instructions. +0 / -0
luckywaldo7 13 years ago Ok yeah, installing spring on opensuse is a bit of a pain. I think you want the "springrts-engine-default" rpm. This is what I did to install the rapid downloader. Open the terminal, and enter these lines in order: sudo zypper in python-setuptools python-devel wget http://pypi.python.org/packages/source/p/pip/pip-0.8.2.tar.gz tar -xvf pip-0.8.2.tar.gz cd pip-0.8.2/ python setup.py build sudo python setup.py install sudo pip install rapid-spring You will need to enter your password at least the first time to install the packages. Once you have the rapid downloader, you can enter pin zk:stable to install the latest zero-k version, and rapid clean-upgrade to upgrade it +0 / -0
luckywaldo7 13 years ago heh, thats what I get for being lazy. The lines you want to enter are supposed to look like this: sudo zypper in python-setuptools python-devel wget http://pypi.python.org/packages/source/p/pip/pip-0.8.2.tar.gz tar -xvf pip-0.8.2.tar.gz cd pip-0.8.2/ python setup.py build sudo python setup.py install sudo pip install rapid-spring +0 / -0
Falelovsky 13 years ago I still haven't able to launch Zero-K in my OpenSUSE 11.4. Any suggestion more apart this? A can launch "Spring" but SpringLobby nor Zero-k. Thank you +0 / -0
[pikts]wolas 13 years ago You have to install springlobby separately. The easiest way is to compile it, but for newcomer that might be hard... Maybe there is RPMS somewhere, but I never used SUSE so I dont know. Actually if you are new to linux first few months are hardest and rather horrible you will switch back to windows(unless they are more horrible to you) or learn them and will see what linux can and windows not. +0 / -0
Falelovsky 13 years ago Hi FarShot83 Really I'm not new to OpenSUSE. I'm a user for 4 years now. In fact, OpenSUSE users can install "spring" from repositories: - springrts 0.82.7.1-1.3 - springrts-engine 0.82.7.1-1.3 So the engine is available, but when I launch spring, "Test the game" rule, but nothing happen when click on "Start the lobby" in menu (see image in https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-GKPWaZWGFVc) nothing happens. What more I need to do to make zero-k run? Thank you +0 / -0
Falelovsky 13 years ago is the correct URL, sorry +0 / -0
yanom 13 years ago what's probably worth mentioning is that Zero-K is one of many (albeit probably the most popular) games that run on the Spring engine. On windows, the Zero-K package contains the Zero-K game, the engine, and the lobby all in one package, but on linux the must be installed separately. Which you are doing now. +0 / -0
luckywaldo7 13 years ago Falelovsky, you have the engine but you need to install the lobby client also. See here: http://springlobby.info/landing/index.php It appears it should actually be in OpenSUSE repositories already, but if not it is not hard to compile. +0 / -0
[rks]N2maniac 13 years ago Note: springrts-0.82.7 is outdated. You will be able to play single player but not online without version 84.0. Part of the problem with Linux instructions are that there are so many distributions out there. I am all for recommending some suggestions for better instructions if they would ease the installation process. Fundamentally it is: -Install latest spring engine (84.0 now) -Install springlobby (0.139 or 0.139-X) -Install the zero-k mod (few options for this, rapid is recommended) -Make sure you can get the maps needed (springlobby should download the map for a battle when you try to join it) +0 / -0
GoogleFrog 13 years ago I doubt you would even be able to properly use singleplayer because backwards compatibility is not guaranteed. +0 / -0
arty_fm 12 years ago You might want to have a look at this thread Install Zero-K in OpenSUSE http://zero-k.info/Forum/Thread/1404 +0 / -0

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