Installing from source on Ubuntu

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Installing from source on Ubuntu

October 06, 2010, 11:49:55 pm

I am trying to build Simutrans from the svn source. Compiling is easy enough but after putting the executable and the pak in the simutrans folder, I hit a problem: Simutrans won't start and aborts with

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FATAL ERROR: simmain::main()
Unable to load any language files
*** PLEASE INSTALL PROPER BASE FILES ***

I think I have all the files I need, but I don't understand where they should be put.

Re: Installing from source on Ubuntu

Reply #1 – October 07, 2010, 12:24:06 am

This error seems to be that there's no .tab files on "Simutrans/text" folder, you can download them at Simutranslator.

There's any .tab file on this folder?

Re: Installing from source on Ubuntu

Reply #2 – October 07, 2010, 01:12:50 am

That was it, thanks! (I thought the message referred to the .tab files from pak64.)

Did I miss the doc where this is explained?

Re: Installing from source on Ubuntu

Reply #3 – October 07, 2010, 05:16:37 am

Glad you managed this

Here is the Q&A about language files:

http://forum.simutrans.com/index.php?topic=2894.0

If you copy your self-compiled executable in the folder, where you installed a pre-compiled simutrans version everything should work, too.