LGeneral needs data files
Bug #90521 reported by
Eugenia Loli-Queru
This bug affects 1 person
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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lgeneral (Debian) |
Fix Released
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Unknown
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lgeneral (Ubuntu) |
Invalid
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
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.
Changed in lgeneral: | |
status: | New → Invalid |
Changed in lgeneral (Debian): | |
status: | Unknown → New |
Changed in lgeneral (Debian): | |
status: | New → Fix Released |
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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...