Sauerbraten will not start in Jaunty with the current version of SDL (not built with audio support)

[Dean Loros]

Sauerbraten will not start with the current version of SDL.

Terminal output:

dean@linux:~/Desktop$ /usr/games/sauerbraten
Using home directory: /home/dean/.sauerbraten
init: sdl
Unable to initialize SDL: SDL not built with audio support

dean@linux:~/Desktop$ lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu jaunty (development branch)
Release: 9.04

dean@linux:~/Desktop$ apt-cache policy sauerbraten
sauerbraten:
  Installed: 0.0.20080620.dfsg-1
  Candidate: 0.0.20080620.dfsg-1
  Version table:
 *** 0.0.20080620.dfsg-1 0
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com jaunty/multiverse Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

I believe that the problem is with the libsdl-sound package not being the same as the main libsdl package.

dean@linux:~/Desktop$ apt-cache policy libsdl-sound1.2
libsdl-sound1.2:
  Installed: 1.0.3-3
  Candidate: 1.0.3-3
  Version table:
 *** 1.0.3-3 0
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com jaunty/universe Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

dean@linux:~/Desktop$ apt-cache policy libsdl1.2debian
libsdl1.2debian:
  Installed: 1.2.13-4ubuntu1
  Candidate: 1.2.13-4ubuntu1
  Version table:
 *** 1.2.13-4ubuntu1 0
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com jaunty/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

[Dean Loros (autocrosser)]

Updated info:

If I remove the libsdl1.2debian-all package & install libsdl1.2debian-pulseaudio, Sauerbraten will start normally. Interesting that sound is not available with "all' that is assumed to have such.

So it looks like the old libsdl-sound1.2 package is not to blame--It now looks like the bug should be filed with the libsdl package.

[Bryce Harrington (bryce)]

Fwiw, I could start sauerbraten with sound (just no video) on jaunty.

sauerbraten:
  Installed: 0.0.20080620.dfsg-1
  Candidate: 0.0.20080620.dfsg-1
  Version table:
 *** 0.0.20080620.dfsg-1 0
        500 http://se.archive.ubuntu.com jaunty/multiverse Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
libsdl-sound1.2:
  Installed: (none)
  Candidate: 1.0.3-3
  Version table:
     1.0.3-3 0
        500 http://se.archive.ubuntu.com jaunty/universe Packages