Problem with Installing on Ubuntu/Linux

[Artemius]

Hi guys,
I have a problem with installing Overgrowth a182-linux.sh on ubuntu 12.04.



Any idea what is the reason of this error or any suggestion to solve it. While this error appears I cannot play Overgrowth, even cannot install it.

[johndh]

It looks like a dependency is not being satisfied, perhaps. Check to make sure you have liblua-dev installed. That's my wild-ass guess.

[Artemius]

liblua5.0-dev has already installed.. I cannot fix that problem any other idea ?

[olza]

I know I had a wee problem with libjpeg, check it on synaptic. I can't actually read your image though, I have a budget screen

[Frazz]

I have the same problem on archlinux,

the message says:

Error: Lua error detected: deps.lua:528: attempt to compare string with nil

[urkle]

liblua isn't needed at all, lua is embedded and used by the installer.. I've been trying to track down what is causing this error you are seeing though.. Thus far I've only been able to hit it on arch x64. And things ran perfectly fine on ubuntu 12.04 for me. What architecture of unbutu 12.04 are you running?

[kotakotakota]

I think this is that issue with running out of space in /tmp

Try running the installer as such:
sh --keep a182-linux.sh

Note that you don't need to run the installer as root: it will ask for a password part way through.

[glidder]

I make sure that there's enough space available for tmp and every lua-related library is installed... and still get same error message.
I've tried to run "sh --keep a182-linux.sh", but obtained "sh: 0: Illegal option --" as response.
I'm so desperate I opened the .lua, even though I have no idea of lua at all...

[kotakotakota]

I make sure that there's enough space available for tmp and every lua-related library is installed... and still get same error message.
I've tried to run "sh --keep a182-linux.sh", but obtained "sh: 0: Illegal option --" as response.
I'm so desperate I opened the .lua, even though I have no idea of lua at all...

Gah, sorry, should be

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sh a182-linux.sh --keep 

.

[glidder]

Gah, sorry, should be

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sh a182-linux.sh --keep 

.

Ah, thanks. But unfortunately still same error message...

[Frazz]

On archlinux, I managed to get past this message by installing http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=28427

[glidder]

On archlinux, I managed to get past this message by installing http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=28427

Tank you! It works for me on Ubuntu 12.04 64b

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sudo apt-get install libjpeg62

[IceQubed]

I had the jpeg library issue as well, which I fixed, but I also had another file missing - libxss.so.1 - any ideas how to fix it? I ignored it for now, as it looks like it has something to do with screensavers, not a vital function, however is there any way to fix it post-install? I can't seem to find any files to fix it online... I am using 64 bit Ubuntu 12.04.

[vidrunr]

I had the jpeg library issue as well, which I fixed, but I also had another file missing - libxss.so.1 - any ideas how to fix it? I ignored it for now, as it looks like it has something to do with screensavers, not a vital function, however is there any way to fix it post-install? I can't seem to find any files to fix it online... I am using 64 bit Ubuntu 12.04.

Same libXss.so.1 issue for me. Same Platform. Ubuntu 12.04 x86_64.

Installer complained about the missing dependency. Allowed me to choose to ignore.
I did this with same reasoning.
An aptitude search on "xss" seemed to indicate screensaver functionality.
Figured it was for cut scenes. ?

In any case, after install finished I get the following error when trying to start:

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./overgrowth.bin.x86_64: error while loading shared libraries: libXss.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

Could not find an error report file as per the Bug Reporting Station thread

Issue resolved by installing the missing lib:

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sudo aptitude install libxss1

[DarkDefender]

liblua isn't needed at all, lua is embedded and used by the installer.. I've been trying to track down what is causing this error you are seeing though.. Thus far I've only been able to hit it on arch x64. And things ran perfectly fine on ubuntu 12.04 for me. What architecture of unbutu 12.04 are you running?

A temporary fix was posted here when the first linux version was released:
viewtopic.php?f=13&t=6868&start=555#p163037

IIRC it has to do with jpeg 6 has a shorter version string IE xy than libjpeg 8 where it is x.y.z.
For example libjpeg on my system is called "libjpeg.so.62" and "libjpeg.so.8.3.0".

BTW why does OG require libjpeg6? Wouldn't it be easier to support the current version of it instead?