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ZeroK-RTS / Chobby

Spring RTS Ingame lobby project
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fresh ubuntu > steam > chobby does not give feedback when no mono is present #223

Open mojjj opened 7 years ago

mojjj commented 7 years ago

i just got a fresh ubuntu 16.04 system. i installed steam and clicked on game libraries=>zero-k. the game does not run (for i do not yet have installed mono-complete package). but there is nothing, no error message, nothing. just a window flashes shortly and is closed in an instant...

after manually installing mono-complete, i repeated and zero-k/chobby was started...

no feedback at all is bad.

gajop commented 7 years ago

Isn't this something Ubuntu should be responsible for? Much like when you don't have a PDF viewer and click on a .pdf file. Alternatively we could wrap the wrapper in bash (perhaps even in the same file), but it's starting to get silly xD

AppSynergy commented 7 years ago

I think Ubuntu ships with a pdf viewer, but if you somehow uninstalled it, clicking on a .pdf would open it in the default application for unknown file types (usually gedit). I'm not sure I see the relevance...

Some bash on installation doesn't sound silly at all:

apt install mono-complete
yum install mono-complete
pacman install mono-complete
if [mono --version != "what i expect"]
  #assume they can do it themselves, but maybe tell them anyway
fi

I think other games have taken a similar approach.