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[coyotedad]

Wow, I got Doom to work using the yum command.  I was unable to make marathon work.  Since I am unfamiliar with linux, I bet it was my fault marathon did not work.
Does anyone know of other games that can be placed on the XO using the yum commands?

[Kityoko]

At what point did installing/running Marathon fail?
I haven't experimented much with yum. The command 'yum list' will display different add-ons you could put on, but there's too many for the XO to keep in the Terminal window at once.

I'll look around for better info.

[Heng]

Using

yum list | less

may help you.

[ockhamsrazor]

rpm -ivh AlephOne-20060701-1.i386.rpm
   [I installed AlephOne M1A1 package separately earlier.][/color]

No issues with final install. I ran and tested the game. So far it works great!

Okay, I got all the external packages installed, but when I get to the above point, I get this message:

"error: open of AlephOne-20060701-1.i386.rpm failed: No such file or directory"

Same thing with the M1A1 data file  .

Where in the heck did the two Aleph One packages go, and how do I navigate to them to run the install command?  They're listed in the Journal as having been downloaded, FWIW.

[Kityoko]

I suspect that you installed the packages via the web browser, not with the wget (webget) command. Fyi, the wget URL syntax will net you the file, downloaded in the directory you're working in. For the core file, from Terminal. I used:
wget http://downloads.sourceforge.net/marathon/AlephOne-20060701-1.i386.rpm?modtime=1155326269&big_mirror=0
and then ran the rpm install script. To get the file name, I cheated by right clicking on the link on Jovi's site on my main machine and selected copy link location. Then I retyped the URL into the Terminal prompt.

I think you're getting that error because you're trying to rpm the file, but the file didn't download to your present working directory.
I'm trying to figure out either a) how to use the find command to find the file or b) where the browser defaults downloaded files to. If we knew that, we could go to that file, confirm that it's there (ls -la), and do a move of the file. (mv AlephOne-20060701-1.i386.rp /home/olpc/)

I'll update in a bit.

[ockhamsrazor]

I suspect that you installed the packages via the web browser, not with the wget (webget) command.

Heh, good guess  .  That's exactly what I did, in fact.  I used "wget" instead, and Marathon installed like a charm.  I'm still very much a Linux n00b, and it's gonna take a while to get used to how this OS installs software.    Thanks for the help!

[Ray G]

Anyway to stabalize the sound on PrBoom?
When it launces I get sound only 10% of the time.
On exit I see a command line disabling the sound.
Are there options in the compatability menu that
I should configure for the XO?

[Wayan Vota]

Okay, so would someone please post a simple HowTo for Doom on the XO as a new topic?  Some of us (ahem) need a step by step when it comes to actual hacking at terminal.

[Razor4ngel]

Ok, installed FreeDoom just fine.  Having trouble with Marathon for some reason.   Let it be known I have about an hour of experience with any sort of Linux.

I went through the steps correctly, andeverything went fine as far as I can tell, but when I ran "rpm -ivh AlephOne*.rpm" I ran into an error.

It prepared to 100%, then AlephOne-M1A1 got to 50% though the progress bar appears to have gone to 100%, then AlephOne went through 100% like it should.  Then it displayed "error: unpacking of archive failed on file /usr/bin/alephone;4775eea7: cpio: read"

Then I tried to finish up the steps I found on that blog, but running alephone-m1a1 results in "/usr/bin/alephone-m1a1: line 3: /usr/bin/alephone: No such file or directory"

So I tried to start over from step 1, but if i repeat the commands it basically says 'no, you did that already, you don't need to do it again' and I have no idea how I could try to re-download or re-install the missing file or directory.  I'm kinda assuming there was a hiccup in the download, but I honestly have noo idea what I'm doing.

[Heng]

Okay, so would someone please post a simple HowTo for Doom on the XO as a new topic?  Some of us (ahem) need a step by step when it comes to actual hacking at terminal.

I still don't have an XO. But on the emulator it was as simple as:

1. Open terminal
2.
su
yum install prboom
exit
prboom
3. play

[Wayan Vota]

Cool!  I'll try that tonight.

[Wayan Vota]

Success!

[Ray G]

launch with command
prboom -geom 1200x900
for fullscreen

[cmonkey]

Or edit ~/.prboom/prboom.cfg and change width from 640 to 1200 and height from 480 to 900 for a permanent fix.

[Bryan H]

I went through the steps correctly, andeverything went fine as far as I can tell, but when I ran "rpm -ivh AlephOne*.rpm" I ran into an error.

It prepared to 100%, then AlephOne-M1A1 got to 50% though the progress bar appears to have gone to 100%, then AlephOne went through 100% like it should.  Then it displayed "error: unpacking of archive failed on file /usr/bin/alephone;4775eea7: cpio: read"

Then I tried to finish up the steps I found on that blog, but running alephone-m1a1 results in "/usr/bin/alephone-m1a1: line 3: /usr/bin/alephone: No such file or directory"

So I tried to start over from step 1, but if i repeat the commands it basically says 'no, you did that already, you don't need to do it again' and I have no idea how I could try to re-download or re-install the missing file or directory.  I'm kinda assuming there was a hiccup in the download, but I honestly have noo idea what I'm doing.

Right, I am having a similar problem... except my unpacking failed at //alephone;47790784: cpio: read

What can be done?