LGeneral needs data files

[Eugenia Loli-Queru]

Binary package hint: lgeneral

The LGeneral game is part of the official Ubuntu package list (easily installed from the add/remove application), but the game is absolutely _useless_ without its data files. These data files are not installed by default and they should.

Additionally, if I install the lgc-pg package to install the data files manually, the lgc-pg app has a bug and it can't find 5 files in the /data folder (it tries to find these 5 files in capital letters, while they are in lower case). So, the whole LGeneral installation thing needs love, otherwise it should not be so easily installable because it will make lots of people unhappy.

[Jack (jacksaffen)]

I doubt the data can legally be packaged. It is available for download for lgeneral on the principle that it is abandonware and there is a disclaimer in the readme. An installer for the data might be ok.
lgeneral is not useless without the panzer general data files. Other, free data files might be developed for it (and may have been for all I know).
This package is not supported in ubuntu as far as I can see. It's available through the package manager because debian package it. I suspect that if the data was packageable debian would have done that too.
Still, it's a shame that it's a bit of a bugger to get running on ubuntu as it's a great game! Probably a howto in the forums/wiki is more appropriate than repackaging. Unfortunately I haven't got it working in feisty yet...

[Eugenia Loli-Queru (eloli)]

My problem is not the data, but the bug in the package while fetching them that doesn't use the right filenames and so after installation, LGeneral still can't find the data.

[Brian Vuyk (bvuyk)]

Just a note - lgeneral is not the issue. Rather, lgc-pg (the converter program) is not case-insensitive. That is, when looking for the original Panzer General data files to convert, it requires them to be named in uppercase.

This should just be a small change to lgc-pg to make it case-insensitive.

[confiq (confiq)]

Well, for all who want to play this game they can check:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=435317
now i can play...

[Victor Sergienko (singalen)]

LGeneral has couple of mods submitted by users, including graphics and campaigns.
Graphics are paper-style, which is ugly, but could be installed by default.
I'm thinking about "civwar" mod.

This will help a LOT of users: not everyone comes to successful run of lgc-pg. I believe this great game loses not less then 90% users who can't launch it out-of-box.

[Drew Scott Daniels (drewdaniels)]

I tried to re-open this bug upstream in Debian as it occurs there too. lgeneral used to depend on lgeneral-data, but that recommends was removed as lgenreral-data was deemed not to be dfsg compliant. A recommends on lgc-pg may be appropriate. A better solution is packaging some of the other modules in Debian, fixing the recommends in Debian, and pulling the new package(s) and fix from Debian. I've tried to send that comment to the linked Debian bug.

Thanks,

     Drew Daniels
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