Archive for February 27th, 2009

Installing The Ur-Quan Masters for Debian

Friday, February 27th, 2009
Was: “The Ur-Quan Masters for Debian (problem & solution)”
The Ur-Quan Masters (Star Control 2) title screen.

The Ur-Quan Masters (Star Control 2) title screen.

Edit (Feb 28, 2009 @ 19:45): This post was based on error of mine. Originally I wrote that debian packet ‘uqm’ did not install starter wrapper in $PATH. The game binary is installed at /usr/lib/games/uqm/uqm and the packets for different distributions install a wrapper script to run it when called. So I adviced to create a symbolic link to it at /usr/bin/uqm. This is unnecessary, I was wrong.

However when I contacted the package maintainer to inform him, I was (politely) replied that the game installs the wrapper at /usr/games/uqm (which I missed when investigating package content) and was adviced to check my $PATH.

Apparently debian should have /usr/games set in $PATH but for some reason I had edited my ~/.bashrc line and defined my own $PATH setting instead of adding a directory to already set $PATH variable. What a fool have I been indeed :) The line was mostly correct, only missing the /usr/games from original defitition.

The original post is still all below but I added this note in front to tell people that this game installs flawlessly on debian with:apt-get install uqm uqm-content uqm-music uqm-voices

Super Melee dual with other ship getting in planets gravity pull

Super Melee dual with other ship getting in planets gravity pull

The Ur-Quan Masters is a 100% free implementation of original 3DO console version of Star Control II and there is also aditional optional speech package, package with original 3DO music and tree add-on remix packs for download. I ran into a problem not finding the game executable when I had installed The Ur-Quan Masters (on my Debian Etch stable/Lenny), a fantatic game I had come upon years ago originally. “…far journey, a space odyssey encompassing the realms of science-fiction and role-playing.“. It had both, fantastic single player adventure and a 2 player dualing game that really got me addicted before even trying the single player. (more…)

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