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alex 4 for linux
William Labbett
Member #4,486
March 2004
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Anyone built Alex 4 for linux ? Wanting to play it but since I've jumped ship to linux I can't use the available build.

LennyLen
Member #5,313
December 2004
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Why don't you build it yourself, since the source is available?

GullRaDriel
Member #3,861
September 2003
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Perhaps he have problem compiling it ?

Else I second Lenny, try !

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Evert
Member #794
November 2000
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I think I did at some point, but I can't remember. It's been a while.

William Labbett
Member #4,486
March 2004
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Okay, thanks, I'll give it a try. Will come back and let you know how I get on.

amarillion
Member #940
January 2001
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Fedora has a package for alex 4 in their main repo.

For ubuntu: there is an alex 4 package for hardy in my PPA: https://edge.launchpad.net/~martijn-vaniersel/+archive . I believe the upcoming intrepid has alex 4 in the main repo as well.

Trezker
Member #1,739
December 2001
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I installed alex4_1.00-0ubuntu2_i386.deb and got this.

alex4: symbol lookup error: /usr/local/lib/liballeg.so.4.2: undefined symbol: _blender_trans24

Peter Wang
Member #23
April 2000

Unfortunately Debian Allegro packages don't respect the Allegro ABI, because we do something wrong with non-position independent code or something (I never understood it fully).

amarillion
Member #940
January 2001
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Indeed, that package works only if your allegro is from the repo as well.

However, you can download and compile from source package easily, something like this should work (untested)

# Add this line to your apt/sources.list:
deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/martijn-vaniersel/ubuntu hardy main
# then
apt-get source alex4
cd alex4-1.00
# this will create the deb package from source
debuild -b -us -uc
cd ..
sudo dpkg -i alex4*.deb

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