[Enigma-devel] Installing Enigma on Ubuntu

[Tarim]

Raoul wrote at 
<http://www.mag-heut.net/blackball/index.php?act=ST&f=8&t=719&st=0&#entry4002>:
>  Hi,
>
> Tarim wrote:
> > * For Ubuntu, what's the best way to install Enigma 1.00 on Dapper? It 
> > currently only seems to be available in Edgy.
>
>
> I use Debian, and don't know too much about the packages in Ubuntu, but as 
> far as I see,
> Enigma is listed in the package search in the universe part for all 
> releases. Sure, for older Releases, there is also an older release of 
> Enigma :rolleyes:
> <http://packages.ubuntu.com/cgi-bin/search_packages.pl?searchon=names&version=all&exact=1&keywords=enigma>
>
> To install 1.00, you have 2 chances:
> I would try to download the package manually from feisty and try to 
> install it with
>
> sudo dpkg -i <packagename>
>
> But as we have some more dependecies with 1.00 than we had with 0.92, you 
> will probably have to install some more packages
> by hand. In the worst case, you have to install the most of the packages 
> listed with red dots.
> <http://packages.ubuntu.com/feisty/games/enigma>
>
> If this fails, you can compile it by yourself, but this is probably more 
> difficult.
> But if you want to try, don't hesitate to ask. We will try to help you.
>
>
> -- Raoul

  Tarim has been evaluating Ubuntu (Dapper) recently.  He didn't fancy 
installing all those dependencies (that's what package managers are for, 
after all!)  So, instead, he did the following:

  Replace every "dapper" with "edgy" in /etc/apt/sources.list
  apt-get install enigma
  Put /etc/apt/sources.list back how it was

  This (mostly) seemed to work.  Apart from the install loosing the 
LANGUAGE environment settings and Enigma not being able to open 
/dev/sequencer (which results in game sound but no music).  However, Tarim 
isn't completely sure that using apt-get on such a radically different 
sources.list file won't mess things up in future (or if he'll be able to tell!)


  As Ubuntu's design goal is to create a distro which is "Linux for 
dummies" and Dapper is the release with long term support - it might be 
nice if someone could produce a back-port of Enigma 1.00.  Then users won't 
have to either fiddle the sources.list or install all the dependencies 
separately.  Tarim doesn't know the package system well enough to do this 
yet.  Who did the other Ubuntu ports?


  Tarim might try a Debian distro next.  Under Debian, can you install 
Enigma 1.00 with apt-get (or an equivalent) without having to install all 
the dependencies by hand?


  Many thanks for all the fun you've created :-)

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