SecondLife

[BlueJayofEvil]

I have a bit of a problem here. I'm updating my games and I noticed this when I did a search:

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# emerge -s secondlife
Searching...
[ Results for search key : secondlife ]
[ Applications found : 3 ]

*  games-rpg/secondlife-bin
      Latest version available: 1.18.0.6
      Latest version installed: 1.18.0.6
      Size of files: 49,366 kB
      Homepage:      http://secondlife.com/
      Description:   A 3D MMORPG virtual world entirely built and owned by its residents
      License:       as-is

*  games-simulation/secondlife
      Latest version available: 1.18.3.2_rc
      Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ]
      Size of files: 29,476 kB
      Homepage:      http://secondlife.com/
      Description:   A 3D MMORPG virtual world entirely built and owned by its residents
      License:       GPL-2

*  games-simulation/secondlife-bin
      Latest version available: 1.18.1.2
      Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ]
      Size of files: 50,533 kB
      Homepage:      http://secondlife.com/
      Description:   A 3D MMORPG virtual world entirely built and owned by its residents
      License:       as-is

THREE SecondLifes???

[wolfden]

and your question is?

[BlueJayofEvil]

Usually I see a binary and a source for major apps. Why are there 2 binaries?

I was also going to ask which one I should install but I picked the source package since it's more up-to-date.

[wolfden]

ask the gentoo portage maintainers

[LewRockwellFAN]

Did you get either to work? I got the version in entropy to install correctly. Didn't help me though cause it is too out of date for the server to accept connection. I tried the more recent one in portage and never saw any way to start it up. Tried the same approach that worked for the non-working version so to speak.

UPDATE: I got it to work with a VERY easy method suggested by Coma here: viewtopic.php?f=43&t=8896&p=109395#p109395 . It seems to good to be true but so far it works for me.