I am brand new to Linux and know absolutely nothing about it.
I have the latest version of UBUNTU and want to run Tome on it. So how do I install TOME?
Is there a clear How to Install Tome on Linux (preferably Ububtu) guide? I need something that takes me step by step from downloading to clicking the mouse to play the first game with no presumption of prior knowledge (because I do not have any).
Hope someone can help!
Thanks so much
Preston
Running TOME under Ubuntu
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Re: Running TOME under Ubuntu
Ubuntu is usually written "Ubuntu".
Personally, I use Arch Linux, rather than Ubuntu. So what I can tell you would be based on my experience of administrating Ubuntu machines rather than what I did to install ToME on my personal machine.
* The most important thing initially is probably to find out whether you are running a 64bit or 32bit OS. This doesn't necessarily correspond to your hardware -- a lot of people opt for 32bit because it is more mature than 64bit and they don't need 64bit features. If you were offered a choice between 32 and 64bit during install, this is what I'm talking about. If you don't remember making such a choice, I recommend installing 'hardinfo' (via Synaptic, which is found in the System menu IIRC. In Synaptic, you 'mark' one or more packages you want to install, then 'Apply' to install them.). Then, running Hardinfo, you should be able to find out if your kernel is x86_64 or not by looking in it's Computer->Operating System section, at the Kernel field. For me, this says "Linux 3.17.2-1-ARCH (x86_64)".
* if you don't have an archiver, like Squeeze, installed, then you will need to install one -- again, I would do this via Synaptic.
* You should also use Synaptic to make sure that all of the necessary dependencies are installed. On my system, the dependencies listed are:
libgl, glu, openal, libvorbis, sdl2, sdl2_ttf, sdl2_image, fontconfig, ttf-droid, libpng. Package names may be slightly different on Ubuntu.
* Start the download of the appropriate package from the tome website. You will be prompted for what action to take. One of the options presented should be 'Open with:' (and hopefully the field next to this says 'Squeeze' or whatever archiver you installed. If not, you can select it.)
* In your archiver, you should have an option to 'Extract All'. Activate this and it should prompt you where you want to unpack to. This is up to you. Normally people place it somewhere inside their home directory. Remember where this is.
* ToME is self-contained, so once you have extracted the archive, you should be ready to try running it.
* Ideally, you should be able to just doubleclick on the 't-engine' file in your file browser. If this doesn't work, you may have run into a known problem with Ubuntu. If it does, great! You're nearly done, skip to step O below.
-* Otherwise, you will probably need to open up a Terminal (don't remember where in the menus it is, but you should have one installed by default AFAIK)
--* You will need to navigate to the directory you extracted ToME into, once you've opened the terminal. This is one reason I said to remember it.
Supposing that you had extracted it to /home/YOURUSERNAME/tome, that would mean you would need to type 'cd /home/YOURUSERNAME/tome'
(with YOURUSERNAME replaced with your actual username, obviously) and hit Enter.
--* Check that you are in the right place -- type 'ls' and hit Enter. One of the items that is listed should be 't-engine'. If it isn't, you may have extracted the archive to a subfolder of where you thought you did - go back to your file browser and double check where t-engine is.
--* Run t-engine by typing './t-engine' and hitting Enter.
--* Post the text it outputs here. (I'm avoiding specifying exact steps beyond here, because if the cause of the problem is this, then proceeding with caution is advised, and I don't want to post anything that can potentially mess your system up if done wrong unless I'm sure it's necessary.)
* O : Optionally, add a launcher pointing at t-engine, so you don't have to navigate to that directory and doubleclick on the t-engine executable every time you want to run ToME. You normally can do this via rightclicking on a blank area of your dock/panel -- there should be an option to 'add'. If it asks you what type of thing to add, you want 'custom launcher' (or something with a similar name). You should then be able to rightclick on that and select the option that says something like 'properties'. You can then browse to the location of t-engine (in the 'Command' field) and possibly add a tooltip/description.
Personally, I use Arch Linux, rather than Ubuntu. So what I can tell you would be based on my experience of administrating Ubuntu machines rather than what I did to install ToME on my personal machine.
* The most important thing initially is probably to find out whether you are running a 64bit or 32bit OS. This doesn't necessarily correspond to your hardware -- a lot of people opt for 32bit because it is more mature than 64bit and they don't need 64bit features. If you were offered a choice between 32 and 64bit during install, this is what I'm talking about. If you don't remember making such a choice, I recommend installing 'hardinfo' (via Synaptic, which is found in the System menu IIRC. In Synaptic, you 'mark' one or more packages you want to install, then 'Apply' to install them.). Then, running Hardinfo, you should be able to find out if your kernel is x86_64 or not by looking in it's Computer->Operating System section, at the Kernel field. For me, this says "Linux 3.17.2-1-ARCH (x86_64)".
* if you don't have an archiver, like Squeeze, installed, then you will need to install one -- again, I would do this via Synaptic.
* You should also use Synaptic to make sure that all of the necessary dependencies are installed. On my system, the dependencies listed are:
libgl, glu, openal, libvorbis, sdl2, sdl2_ttf, sdl2_image, fontconfig, ttf-droid, libpng. Package names may be slightly different on Ubuntu.
* Start the download of the appropriate package from the tome website. You will be prompted for what action to take. One of the options presented should be 'Open with:' (and hopefully the field next to this says 'Squeeze' or whatever archiver you installed. If not, you can select it.)
* In your archiver, you should have an option to 'Extract All'. Activate this and it should prompt you where you want to unpack to. This is up to you. Normally people place it somewhere inside their home directory. Remember where this is.
* ToME is self-contained, so once you have extracted the archive, you should be ready to try running it.
* Ideally, you should be able to just doubleclick on the 't-engine' file in your file browser. If this doesn't work, you may have run into a known problem with Ubuntu. If it does, great! You're nearly done, skip to step O below.
-* Otherwise, you will probably need to open up a Terminal (don't remember where in the menus it is, but you should have one installed by default AFAIK)
--* You will need to navigate to the directory you extracted ToME into, once you've opened the terminal. This is one reason I said to remember it.
Supposing that you had extracted it to /home/YOURUSERNAME/tome, that would mean you would need to type 'cd /home/YOURUSERNAME/tome'
(with YOURUSERNAME replaced with your actual username, obviously) and hit Enter.
--* Check that you are in the right place -- type 'ls' and hit Enter. One of the items that is listed should be 't-engine'. If it isn't, you may have extracted the archive to a subfolder of where you thought you did - go back to your file browser and double check where t-engine is.
--* Run t-engine by typing './t-engine' and hitting Enter.
--* Post the text it outputs here. (I'm avoiding specifying exact steps beyond here, because if the cause of the problem is this, then proceeding with caution is advised, and I don't want to post anything that can potentially mess your system up if done wrong unless I'm sure it's necessary.)
* O : Optionally, add a launcher pointing at t-engine, so you don't have to navigate to that directory and doubleclick on the t-engine executable every time you want to run ToME. You normally can do this via rightclicking on a blank area of your dock/panel -- there should be an option to 'add'. If it asks you what type of thing to add, you want 'custom launcher' (or something with a similar name). You should then be able to rightclick on that and select the option that says something like 'properties'. You can then browse to the location of t-engine (in the 'Command' field) and possibly add a tooltip/description.