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Thread ID: 15030	2002-01-26 11:19:00	Install of game under linux	Guest (0)	Press F1

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32969	2002-01-26 11:19:00	Hi, Some of you may remember my trying to install a game called AlephOne on my linux system. I have (thanks to your help) finally managed to get it installed... Now, I need to get it working. When I run it by the command (from /usr/bin/): ./alephone Is said something like: Fatal: please check audio, maps, something something are installed. It gave no instructions on how to install these... When I ran it now to print what it said it said: Fatal signal: Segmentation Fault (SDL Parachute Deployed) what does that mean, and what can I do about it? Thanks for you help! Erin	Guest (0)
32970	2002-01-26 12:10:00	I'm not familar with the game, but my guess would be its not very stable yet. They may have some help at the games homepage. The segmentation fault is caused by it trying to access memory that has not been allocated to it. It prevents it from trashing other programmes memory.	Guest (0)
32971	2002-01-26 12:19:00	ahh, Yes that may be the case... Is there anyway to allow the program to load anyway, other than getting it written properly? Do you know of any good games one can get for linux? FPS games or just anything that is of reasonably good quality... And where can I get them, preferably in an rpm format... Where can I track down quake? Thanks again, Erin	Guest (0)
32972	2002-01-27 03:06:00	Three things. You should not run programmes with './whatever'. That means that you are in the same directory as the code. That's where any files created by the programme will appear, if you have write rights to that directory. If it's /usr/bin, you should not have rights there (unless you are running as root. Run from your home directory. Don't run as root, Games should not be in /usr/bin. That's for commands. /usr/local/bin is really for any command yopu add, but will certainly be in your path ('echo $PATH'), but so will the /blah/blah/games directory. If you get Segmentation faults, you will be getting files called 'core'. A core file is a dump of *all* the memory into a file. It's used for debugging. Delete any of these you find. ('find / -name core'). You've probably got a Gig or so of them already.	Guest (0)
32973	2002-01-27 10:05:00	Aha! whenever I install an .rpm it automatically sticks it in /usr/bin/, how do I choose where it goes? Thanks Erin	Guest (0)
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