As of a few days ago I posed this in the AA official forums:

[QOUTE]I just did a fresh install of mandrake 9.1 and updated my nvidia drivers. I installed AA:O for linux but it had a gtk2.0 error, cuz it's not installed, BUT, it did say the game installed properly and told me to type armyops to start the game. Ok so I type armyops and it loads. I enter in my info and load up a level. I'm sitting there waiting in pipeline for the round to end, it ends, and then it crashes. HUH? So I try a diff map. This time I pick moutain pass. It loads and 2 minutes in it crashes. HUH? I'm clueless here. Currently I'm trying to get gtk2.0 installed so I can uninstall AA:O linux again and see if this solves it. Having a dependacy problem with glib tho so I'm stuck atm. Any ideas on ANY of this? Anyone else have this problem? Can anyone point me to anywhere else for help if not? Thanx for taking the time to read this. Peace.[/QOUTE]

As of today, I got 3/4 of my dependancies installed for gtk and one more before I can try that and see if it was the problem. I currently have another thread going on here relating to this problem BUT this post shows the root, heh, of the problem. For all this is just so I can get Americas Army 1.7 up and running on my pc. That and also I am gaining knowledge steadily of working in linux. Good stuff, complicated, but good.


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Have you tried installing the source, devel, lib and header packages which related to GTK? What are the exact errors?
You have the full OpenGL supporting nVidia drivers (4363 iirc) from their site?

Um, I only tried to install the source GTK2 package I guess. I didn't know there were multiple ways, I'm transferring over from windows, double click, pick folder, click install and run, ya know? I do have the latest nvidia drivers installed and I believe they are set to openGL by default. If not I'm unsure what to do as I DID read the entire INSTALL and README file and I didn't see or perhaps I didn't understand that what I was reading told me this could be done by doing this. The exact errors I get when running the AA install is that GTK2 is not installed. But the AA install says that it itself finsihed with no problem. As for the dependancy errors for trying to get pango 1.2 working, it tells me that either A: glib is not installed, although I just installed it and it installed without error. B: glib is installed but is not installed correctly. Perhaps I needed to do more than..
./configure
make
make check
make install
make clean
???

If so what exactly? How do I go about testing my nvidia drivers are using openGL? Yes they ARE installed and I do get that lovely AND quite annoying nvidia splash screen. If needed I can post the errors I get ./configuring pango 1.2 from the config.log if so just ask and your wish is my command.

Well if you get the splash screen it's fine. But it's always fun to try the game Chromium which comes with Mdk, or run glxgears from a console

Why are you using source+compiling to install stuff? Mandrake has many many common things already compiled as packages on the cds, and there are the latest versions as packages at rpmfind.net and other rpm sites. Get the ones from the Mandrake 9.1 or Cooker releasers if possible.

Well I'm doing installs the source and compiling way because so far that's the only way I know how to do it. I tried searching for the rpm's but don't see any stating they are for Mandrake, best I can find is Red Hat 9.0 or IA64 whatever that is. And I'm sure there are rpm's for mandrake of these programs but so far not that I could find.

Btw, how do I install this game, was it on my mandrake cd's? I never install any os games or junk. Just a waste of space in my mind but if it is graphically beatiful then it sounds like a good way to test my graphics until I get AA:O to work.

Go to the Install Software menu item/Mandrake Control Centre entry, and see how much space all the games take up. If it's too much, I reccommend Chromium, Frozen Bubble, Tux Racer and Gnome Robots. All good clean addictive fun

IA64 is a 64bit processor, which you're very unlikely to have unless you're running an expensive server system.

No games were installed until I put on AA:O and Chromium. I only installed what was necessary and as I need stuff I'll install it. I keep a tidy and clean os. As for Chromium... man, your my new nemesis man. All I did was try that game ONCE before I saw that it was my newest addiction. I'm having trouble trying to fix these problems I'm having because I can't seam to exit the game..AAAHHHHHH. Finally made it to level 2, man that was hard and the difficulty was only set to normal!! Graphics are beatiful too. I'm surprised. You'll never see ANY games that come with windows that look this great. Maybe that pinball game, but I don't want to think about that right now. Chromium will not allow it Naw just playing. Thanx for the advice tho.

Remember to let powerups pass if you dont need them for a large bonus, and to self destruct to save powerups plus also only loose one life to kill a screenfull of enemies

Thanx for the tips man. I'm still trying to understand why certain icons are different colors, like the little penguin. Sometimes it's orange sometimes blue. I'm also having a hard time figuring out the stages of these powerups. But I'll get it. I don't think I'll be putting this game down anytime soon.

sh armyops-lnx-170.sh.bin
Verifying archive integrity... All good.
Uncompressing America's Army: Operations for GNU/Linux v1.7.0....
Second stage unpacker running...
Starting actual installer...

Gtk-WARNING **: GModule initialization check failed: Gtk+ version too old (micro mismatch)

Gtk-WARNING **: GModule initialization check failed: Gtk+ version too old (micro mismatch)

Gtk-WARNING **: GModule initialization check failed: Gtk+ version too old (micro mismatch)

Gtk-WARNING **: GModule initialization check failed: Gtk+ version too old (micro mismatch)

Gtk-WARNING **: GModule initialization check failed: Gtk+ version too old (micro mismatch)

Gtk-WARNING **: GModule initialization check failed: Gtk+ version too old (micro mismatch)
Can't create /home/ghost/armyops: File exists

What is this Gtk WARNING all about? I just installed gtk 1.2 just now fine with no errors pkg-config --list-all shows it is installed and operational. And what about this can't create /home/ghost/armyops: File esists? It attempts to make a directory that DOESN"T exists and tells me this? Isn't that a bit odd? Although the gui instller loads up and creates that directory and installs just fine... should I just ignore that error? But the gtk one really bothers me.

I thought you needed GTK2?
The installer is designed to not overwrite a current install, so it wont write to that file if it's already there.

That's what the error was 4 installs ago and before I installed gtk2, is it possible to have gtk2, AND gtk installed? Is there even just a gtk or do they mean gtk1.* ?? As for the installer not overwriting a file if it's there.. I did rm -rf armyops ... that folder was no longer there. So I have no idea what the installer was taling about then.

You can have both GTK(+?) and GTK2 installed at once.
Maybe report the error to the linux installer makers, or check and install instructions. Is there any mentioned command to only extract the files without installing them (similar to the nVidia drivers package)?

I'm not too sure, I'm thinking I was just having a problem cuz mandrake hates me... but that's ok. Ditched it and moved onto red hat 9. WOW!!! They definately did some work on it since I last tried it as 6.1. Think I found my new home. The red hat updater installed all the things for me that I was having problems with getting gtk2 installed, lol. Took about an hour for the whole thing to update. Gonna redownload the game and give it another shot. Wish me luck.