Hi, I just installed the client onto my Xubuntu linux laptop using the script at http://daimonin.elwin013.com/. The gtk script didn't do anything, so I ran the cli script which seems to have successfully install the client.  Now when I try to start the game, the intro screen shows up and I see the progress bar at the bottom, then it crashes.

I thought there might be a problem because of full screen mode, so I went into options.dat and changed the option "Fullscreen:" under the "Client" heading from 1 to 0.  Now I get a windowed version of the intro screen that crashes.

What should I try now?  Are there other flags in options.dat that are worth changing?

Edit: going directly to the file "daimonin" instead of using the desktop launcher opens the game without any hitch. 

Maybe the shortcut has the wrong file path.

Check the properties window for the launcher, see if the target file path matches the file path to the actual daimonin.exe in the daimonin folder.

At a guess, daimonin (the non-PhysFS bits anyway, which is quite a bit in 0.10.5) still relies on being started from the current directory and the shortcut does not cd.

But let's all wish really hard and see if Elwin appears to fix it for us.

Yes that's the ?@!&ing fopen_wrapper() and SYSPATH.

fopen_wrapper() looks in SYSPATH when it can't find files in the user dir (~/.daimonin). SYSPATH defaults to ./ (config.h). In 0.10.5 fopen_wrapper() is used a lot, including for those two files. In 0.10.6 it will be entirely removed (replace with PhysFS) -- currently it is only used for quickslots (part of the reason these often fail).

Try setting SYSPATH to the absolute dir of where you install the client daŧa when you make the client with your script.

BTW IIRC the installer can install the binaries to one location and the (default) data to another.

Is there a particular reason for this? If not, can we scrap it, because I don't think PhysFS will like it (it takes the dir where the bin is a the default data dir -- yes, we can work round this with a constant like SYSPATH but then if you move the data you need to recompile -- or a CLI switch -- but that's a hassle to the user).

Very brief test of the gtk script (don't use KDE).

Install single none (as I obviously have all the deps already) worked perfectly and I can login to my account. Why does the shortcut only go to the desktop and not the Applications>Games menu though?

Remove single then worked fine.

Install multi none worked fine except that it told me to launch with the shortcut in the menu but their is no shortcut in the menu! So although it did install the actual game properly, if I was a non-tech player, to me it would have done nothing. Also, why not put the bin on (forgotten the name) $RUN_PATH  so I can just open a terminal and type daimonin?

Anyway as it was physically installed, remove multi none uninstalled it.

Hm I'm on 11.04. Maybe it's time to go to 11.10? Hope I can still use Gnome and not that Unity garbage.

I find the new Unity stuff fairly difficult to navigate and quite buggy. I don't know if it's a requirement for 11.10, since I just did a quick, fresh install of 11.10, but I'd imagine you can revert to Gnome. Of the 5 or so distros I've tried, Arch seems to be my favourite (but I'm too lazy to set it up again).