Installing US version of Darwinia on Ubuntu 6.10 (Edgy Eft)

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Installing US version of Darwinia on Ubuntu 6.10 (Edgy Eft)

Postby alexm » Wed Dec 27, 2006 10:13 pm

Hi all. After some trial and error and searching through this forum, I successfully installed the US (ie., Cinemaware Marquee) version of Darwinia on Ubuntu Linux (6.10, "Edgy Eft"). So, in the Linux spirit of community support...

Here are all the steps I followed to get the US version of Darwinia working on my distro:

1) I extracted the data files from "setup.exe" on the Darwinia CD-ROM onto my hard disk using Wine:
> wine /media/cdrom/setup.exe
This put the win32 executable and data files into ~/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/Cinemaware Marquee/Darwinia/
2) I made a Darwinia directory in my home directory, with subdirectory lib, like so:
> mkdir ~/darwinia
> mkdir ~/darwinia/lib
This is where the linux installer will look for the Darwinia data files (rather than on the CD).
3) I moved all the ".dat" files from the win32 install directory to the darwinia lib directory:
> mv "~/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/Cinemare Marquee/Darwinia/*.dat" ~/darwinia/lib/.
4) I ran the Linux installer (1.3.0) from the introversion website:
> chmod +x darwinia-full-1.3.0.sh
> ./darwinia-full-1.3.0.sh
5) I set the install path to ~/darwinia
6) I unchecked the "CD data files" option (important). This ensures that the installer will look on your hard drive, rather than on the CD, for the game data files.
7) I clicked "begin install" and this put the linux executables in the ~/darwinia directory.
8) I had to delete libgcc_s.so.1 to get the game to run on Edgy Eft, because I was getting the "GCC_4_2_0 not found" error:
> rm ~/darwinia/lib/libgcc_s.so.1
9) I now have lots of fun by typing:
> ~/darwinia/darwinia

Yes, getting the game to work on Linux was a pain in the ass but it's nothing compared to the old dos days. Such is the price of freedom :).

Also, Kudos to Introversion for publishing such a great game and porting it to Linux! I'm looking forward to the Linux release of Defcon now.
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Postby Zoot » Thu Jan 11, 2007 5:11 am

FYI, in Kubuntu 6.10, I had to specify this:

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>wine /media/cdrom0/installer/setup.exe

apparently my CD has the setup.exe file in the /installer directory on the CD, and my drive isn't called /media/cdrom since I have two drives in this computer.

Also, If you ever need to reinstall, and you want to keep your saved games, make sure to copy the contents of ~/.darwinia because that's where the saved games are stored. I just copied them over, and I was able to pick up where I left off before my clean install of Kubuntu 6.10

Thanks for the excellent HOWTO in this thread. It was very helpful in allowing me to install the game today.
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grrr

Postby cyberbillp » Wed Jun 20, 2007 4:46 am

This is horrible. I bought Darwinia thinking I could install it easily just like Uplink.
How silly of me.
I don't even have wine installed so I can't get this stupid setup.exe to run. And the install script doesn't work like the web site says.
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Postby shinygerbil » Wed Jun 20, 2007 8:28 am

That's probably because you're using a repackaged, Cinemaware Marquee copy of Darwinia. Trust me, the original CDs were much, much easier to install on Linux.
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Postby cyberbillp » Wed Jun 20, 2007 4:05 pm

shinygerbil wrote:That's probably because you're using a repackaged, Cinemaware Marquee copy of Darwinia. Trust me, the original CDs were much, much easier to install on Linux.


Yeah, it sure is. Didn't realize there was different versions.
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