[SOLVED] game-data-packager not working, attempt to download from a broken site

mark_alfred · 11-17-2018, 06:26 PM

game-date-packager is not working. It attempts to download from a broken site. I was trying to have it build Wolfenstein3D, but it did not work. It gave the following feedback:

Code:

mark@debian:~/Downloads/Wolfenstein$ game-data-packager wolf3d
WARNING:game_data_packager.build:Failed to download "http://pkg-games.alioth.debian.org/game-data/1wolf14.zip": <urlopen error [Errno -2] Name or service not known>
ERROR:game_data_packager.build:Failed to download necessary files for wolf3d-demo-data
ERROR:game_data_packager.build:Unable to complete any packages because downloads failed.

Has anyone successfully used this program? And if so, could you let me know how you were able to get it working?

ondoho · 11-18-2018, 03:59 AM

alioth.debian.org does not exist (anymore).
can this software be configured to look for files elsewhere?
did you read its documentation?

mark_alfred · 11-24-2018, 02:12 PM

Thanks ondoho, that worked. I changed /etc/game-data-packager/alioth-mirrors to provide a URL with the required file:

Code:

# contains 1rott13.zip & 1wolf14.zip
# http://pkg-games.alioth.debian.org/game-data/
# http://localhost/

ftp://ftp.3drealms.com/share/

Then, running the command "game-data-packager wolf3d" worked, building wolf3d-demo-data_49.1_all.deb
I installed this and it works.