Install Doom3?

[babujbf]

Hi guys I checked out gentoo-portage.com and theres a couple of games that I would like to install because I own them. Before Sabayon I use to have Ubuntu and installing doom was just running a install file and copying some files from the cds to the computer. How do you do it here?

I ran equo install doom3 and it didn't find doom3 in the repositories. I want to install Doom 3 , AvP and Unreal... plain Unreal not unreal tournament.

Thanks guys

[micia]

doom3 is in portage, it is masked.

You should update emerge packages using:

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emerge --sync && layman -S


and unmask those packages; be careful unmasking packages, you should
investigate on them, since they are masked for a reason.

To unmask them you should execute these commands as root:

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mkdir -p /etc/portage
echo "=games-fps/doom3-1.3.1304" >> /etc/portage/package.unmask
echo "=games-fps/doom3-data-1.1.1282-r1" >> /etc/portage/package.unmask


and install them:

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emerge -av doom3 doom3-data


don't forget to sync entropy and portage, after using emerge:

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equo database gentoosync


PS: Doom3 rules

[babujbf]

Thanks! same with the other games right?

[micia]

On Sabayon you are free to use Entropy or Portage, in this case you used Portage (emerge), it
is an advanced tool and it installs software directly from source, derived from Gentoo;
Entropy (equo/sulfur) is a binary package manager, and it is much easier to use.

You can mix them, with some experience you will be able to mix them heavily, but it is not recommended.
Unless you are not using only Portage, or you don't have some experience using it, installing software from
Entropy is the recommended way.
So when available try to install software using equo

In this case I can find them only with emerge, so you can only use it.

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emerge -av avp
emerge -av unreal


Note: If you don't like using emerge, you could make a package request at:
http://bugs.sabayonlinux.org/

[babujbf]

I installed Unreal, it installed perfectly with the cds but for some reason it wont run. It made a shortcut in Applications/Other and when I click on it nothing happens.

Got any ideas?

Thanks again

[micia]

You could try to launch it from console and see its output.
Unfortunately I haven't got any of these games, so I don't know which
problems you could face

I think it should be a command like:

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unreal


[babujbf]

Ok so I launched it out of a terminal and it gave me this.

Creating preferences directory...
Creating directory /home/babu/.loki/unreal/
Creating directory /home/babu/.loki/unreal/System
Unreal engine initialized
Bound to SDLDrv.so
Joystick [0] : Logitech Logitech Dual Action
Joystick has 12 buttons
Joystick has 4 axes
SDLClient initialized.
Bound to Render.so
Lighting subsystem initialized
Rendering initialized
LoadMap: Entry
Bound to Fire.so
appError called:
Class Actor Member Owner problem: Script=48 C++=52
Executing UObject::StaticShutdownAfterError
Executing USDLClient::ShutdownAfterError
Signal: SIGIOT [iot trap]
Aborting.
Exiting.
Name subsystem shut down

[babujbf]

maybe I should try to install with equo? Eould it make a difference?

What command I need to run to install with equo? All the unmask commands and then equo install unreal? or equo install -av unreal?

[micia]

if the application is not available in equo you can't.
And the unmask commands are not necessary if the package is not masked
(Doom 3 was masked for some reason, I hope you found out why, so the commands were
necessary).

I could find Unreal and Alien Versus Predator only using emerge, however installing a package
with equo or emerge is the same thing (emerge allows more customizations and compiles from source,
but they are compatible), emerge is harder to use, so usually users with less experience
prefer equo over emerge.

It seems that it is a common issue... Pretty strange, check this out:
http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=148397&highlight=unreal

By the way, check the wiki to understand better emerge and equo, the correct command to install
something using equo is:

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equo install <package>


http://wiki.sabayonlinux.org/index.php?title=Entropy

[babujbf]

do you undertand this?


looks like there is still the bug with the nonupdatet .u files of the unreal system directory
- simply do an ut install - but not via ebuild, do it with the 4.36 installer
- install it as binary installation to somewhere you can remember
- then delete ut und ucc in /usr/local/bin (standartpath i think)
- open a shell in go into the System directory of this "dummy" ut installation
- cp *.u <to your unreal System directory>


I undertsand the "install somewhere you can remember" part with the installer. But this:

- then delete ut und ucc in /usr/local/bin (standartpath i think)
- open a shell in go into the System directory of this "dummy" ut installation
- cp *.u <to your unreal System directory>

is chinese to me lol.

Thanks micia.