Dumb ex Windows Person needs help

Beren · 19 May 2010 at 22:59

Hi, not sure if anyone could spare a moment to educate me on something. I have been using linux for umm two days (Ubuntu 10.04) and decided I would try installing PlaneShift.

Worked out after a quick google the chmod command, then that I needed to install it to my user account etc. But when I try and run the game I just get an error and can't locate any help online as to why. The uninstaller works fine but nothing happens when I try running the client from the desktop. I dropped to Terminal and get the following:

beren@ubuntu:~/Downloads/games/opt/PlaneShift$ ls
art guide psclient pslaunch support updaterinfo.xml
data lang psclient.bin pslaunch.bin uninstall vfs.cfg
docs libs psclient.cfg pslaunch.cfg unscript.sh

beren@ubuntu:~/Downloads/games/opt/PlaneShift$ ./psclient
Inconsistency detected by ld.so: dl-close.c: 731: _dl_close: Assertion `map->l_init_called' failed!
beren@ubuntu:~/Downloads/games/opt/PlaneShift$

Could anyone tell me what this means and how I fix it?

SiriusB · 19 May 2010 at 23:12

Try using sudo.

I also came across this: http://swiss.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1486528

Might help.

Beren · 19 May 2010 at 23:13

Grr ok so I was being a real dumb user and not running the .bin file. Now getting another error about shared libraries... and I can't seem to find the file other people are running to fix the problem. Meh, I'll get there eventually

/edit and thanks for the suggestion Sirius... but you under estimated how dumb/lazy an ex Windows user can be!

/edit2 Now yet another error... ho hum.

FoxEye · 22 May 2010 at 11:58

not sure if it'll help, but you can use "ldd" to list the shared libraries needed by a program/library.

ldd <item>