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Greebo https://wiki.thedarkmod.com/index.php?title=Tdmlauncher_in_Gentoo_Linux&diff=9244&oldid=prev 2009-10-20T05:30:42Z

<p>New page: It seems to be Gentoo policy for ebuilds to install 3D games with a launch binary in /usr/games/bin and the game itself under /opt (at least that&#039;s how it is for me with Prey, Quake4 &amp; Doo...</p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div>It seems to be Gentoo policy for ebuilds to install 3D games with a launch binary in /usr/games/bin and the game itself under /opt (at least that&#039;s how it is for me with Prey, Quake4 &amp; Doom3).<br /> <br /> This means that running tdmlauncher.linux out of the box gives an error message about being unable to find the D3 engine.<br /> <br /> From the output its clear tdmlauncher.linux looks for doom.x86 in the following order:<br /> <br /> # ~/.doom3/<br /> # /usr/local/games/doom3/<br /> # any location specified on the command line.<br /> <br /> Hence in order to start The Dark Mod I had to either create a symlink in one of the locations it expects e.g.<br /> <br /> ln -s /opt/doom3/doom.x86 ~/.doom3/doom.x86<br /> <br /> or specify the location explicitly when launching<br /> <br /> ./tdmlauncher.linux /opt/doom3/doom.x86<br /> <br /> Thanks to free_cogg for this bit of info.<br /> <br /> Reference: http://modetwo.net/darkmod/index.php?/topic/9984-gentoo-gotcha/page__view__findpost__p__197069<br /> <br /> [[Troubleshooting]]</div>

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