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Couldn't run Unreal Tournament (ut-bin). Is UT_DATA_PATH set?

This is the error message when I try to run UT. Is there a fix for this. (I am running slackware 10).

Have you checked to see if UT_DATA_PATH is set? I mean I know it's redundant to ask since that is the exact error but..... Try echo $UT_DATA_PATH and if it's not set you need to set it to the /UT/System folder I believe. Hope that helps.

I've tried "export UT_DATA_PATH=/usr/local/games/ut/System" and it works but as soon as I close the terminal, it doesn't work anymore when I try to run "ut". The command above seems to only set the UT_DATA_PATH temporarly.

edit your ut script

change this part

Code:

    # Is the awk/ls magic portable?

    if [ -L "$fullpath" ]; then

        fullpath="`ls -l "$fullpath" | awk '{print $11}'`"

    fi

to this

Code:

    # Is the sed/ls magic portable?

    if [ -L "$fullpath" ]; then

        fullpath=`ls -l "$fullpath" |sed -e 's/.* -> //' |sed -e 's/\*//'`

    fi

that should do the trick.

Where do I edit this?

I followed Ravage's directions to edit the ut script file, and I'm up! (Uh, up and running UT on slackware (10) for the first time ever, that is.)

Kudos a-MUNDO, Ravage!!

Rhatlinux,

the ut script you need to edit is located in /usr/local/games/ut, and the file name is ut. (like calculus, it's obvious once you get it)

The other thing I had to do was to run from a Konsole window under KDE, to overcome the dreaded segmentation fault:

startx, then open a Konsole window, then type "ut". It's unreal.

I think the xwindows thing is necessary to get the glx opengl driver visible to the system. There's probably a way to do it from the login console without startx, but I'm too newbie to know.

I did go into the xwindows config file to make sure I had glx invoked, and the nvidia driver appropriate for my video card. Just following directions from nvidia.

Jammin. Now I have something I need that linux does better than winxp. Ut can't hardly run under xp on my laptop (dell M60): it keeps racing and pausing on a 2 second cycle. I'm sure it's some os "service" crap they installed when the IT guy set me up.

Smooth as silk on SlackWare!

Gotta get slackin now. Later

You should be able to run this from the "ut" executable in the install directory. For example:

cd /wherever/you/installed/ut
./ut

Your path will point to something like /usr/local/bin/ut which is a link to /wherever/you/installed/ut/ut. You could replace it with one of my little band-aid scripts like so:

su -
cd /usr/local/bin
rm ut
vi ut

#Begin ut script
cd /wherever/you/installed/ut
./ut
#End ut script, now save and quit

chmod 777 ut

Bam! Like I said, a "band-aid script", but it works.

Mr. Swillis

I followed the various steps outlined here, but now I'm getting an odd error...

Code:

kelly@sherry12:~/games/unrealtournament> ./ut

Unreal engine initialized

Bound to SDLDrv.so

Joystick [0] : Unknown Joystick

SDLClient initialized.

Bound to Render.so

Lighting subsystem initialized

Rendering initialized

LoadMap: Entry

Bound to Fire.so

Case-insensitive search: Botpack -> ..\System\BotPack.u

Bound to IpDrv.so

Game class is 'UTIntro'

Level is Level Entry.MyLevel

Bringing Level Entry.MyLevel up for play (0)...

InitGame:

Base Mutator is Entry.Mutator0

Browse: CityIntro.unr?Name=Player?Class=Botpack.TMale2?team=255?skin=SoldierSkins.blkt?Face=SoldierSkins.Othello

LoadMap: CityIntro.unr?Name=Player?Class=Botpack.TMale2?team=255?skin=SoldierSkins.blkt?Face=SoldierSkins.Othello

Case-insensitive search: genfluid -> ..\Textures\GenFluid.utx

appError called:

fread failed: BufferCount=-2616169 Error=1

Executing UObject::StaticShutdownAfterError

Executing USDLClient::ShutdownAfterError

Signal: SIGIOT [iot trap]

Aborting.

Exiting.

Name subsystem shut down

Uh, hello? I get an fread error when ROOT is running the program. Why is the buffer count started at -2,000,000 anyway?

hate to grave dig and all but mine won't save :( (I'm running ubuntu 8.04) also i got this one from a torrent, it was an ISO, there was a script with it too. I ran the script and UT installed, not sure which UT(GOTY/Regular)but it's v436 (if that gives any clues :|)