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anyone got heretic 2 for linux, anyone notice that it doesnt work?
this is pissing me off, i just bought it off amazon and when i install it says it cannot find a file in a certain directory, which is located in a folder within the folder its looking for
example its looking for "heretic2" one of the files that's supposed to go in the /bin directory, i dont know the file type. anyway...
it's looking for heretic2 on the cd in some folder say /mnt/cdrom/x11/heretic2 and the file is in /mnt/cdrom/x11/heretic2/glx/ not exact folders, cant remember.
the install goe thruogh none the less, i type heretic2 nothing happens, so i try copying the file to /bin and some other directory like /usr/local/sbin or something, where it's supposed to be located.
so i type heretic2 and nothing happens, any ideas?
Man, I thought I was the only one I have just started my linux game collection and this was th first that arrived. I have the exact same problem. Still working on it hopefully one of us can get it and let teh other know.
i found this "Commercial game companies like Loki release patches for their games. Often a game will have MANY patches (Myth2) and some games are unplayable without them (Heretic2). Check the game's website for patches whether you have a problem running the game or not; there may be an update for a security problem that you may not even be aware of".
I bought heretic 2 for linux recently and had the same install problems as well. I figured out what was wrong with my copy. The install script looks for a file titled "heretic2" in a certain directory on the cdrom, but the file is actually in a subdirectory of that folder.
After I had copied the file to /usr/local/bin (where the script was trying to install it), I found another problem. The file "heretic2" (which is the executable for the game) looks for the game's files in the directory the file "heretic2" is put in. To correct this I just moved "heretic2" to the main directory all the other files get installed to.
If your cd is like mine you could just do the following from a command prompt:
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