Intstlling Packages?

[spydie]

I'm trying to get my first download installed.
I'm running Knoppix from the hard drive.
I picked the top .deb file (pacman game) from this site.
http://www.tuxfinder.com/packages/se...deb&country=US

When I click to download it I'm give the option to use KPackage.
KPackage opens and I see pacman downloaded to it.
I click install and it seems to install it under games just fine.
I can find it in under games, the icon looks like a blank page.
I click on the icon to start the game and it can not seem to find anything.

I can find the game in KPackage and it shows

status
install ok installed


So what I'm I doing wrong?

Thanks,

[UltraMega]

Hello...this is my first post here. I mainly work with and use MS software (especially servers and Citrix MetaFrame), but am interested in Linux and I'm trying my hand at exploring Knoppix.

As a test I just installed the same pacman package, and when I try to run it by running a shell and typing "pacman", I get the following:

X Error of failed request: BadName (named color or font does not exist)
Major opcode of failed request: 45 (X_OpenFont)
Serial number of failed request: 27
Current serial number in output stream: 31

Don't know if this is the same problem that you are experiencing but I thought that I would report it here.

[Stephen]

I'm trying to get my first download installed.
I'm running Knoppix from the hard drive.
I picked the top .deb file (pacman game) from this site.
http://www.tuxfinder.com/packages/se...deb&country=US

When I click to download it I'm give the option to use KPackage.
KPackage opens and I see pacman downloaded to it.
I click install and it seems to install it under games just fine.
I can find it in under games, the icon looks like a blank page.
I click on the icon to start the game and it can not seem to find anything.

I can find the game in KPackage and it shows

status
install ok installed


So what I'm I doing wrong?

Thanks,

You should get the package from debian it just installed fine here.

HappyTux:/home/stephen# apt-cache search pacman
hatman - Customizable high-resolution Pacman clone
mangoquest - The Blue Mango Quest, a first person maze game
mangoquest-data - The Blue Mango Quest, a first person maze game
mangoquest-doc - The Blue Mango Quest, a first person maze game
xpacman - Basic Pacman
apple2 - Apple ][ Emulator
xapple2 - Apple ][ Emulator
gtkboard - Many board games in one program
pacman - Chase Monsters in a Labyrinth
op-kpacman-fb - Pacman clone for Opie
HappyTux:/home/stephen# apt-cache policy pacman
pacman:
  Installed: (none)
  Candidate: 10-14
  Version Table:
     10-14 0
        990 http://ftp2.de.debian.org testing/main Packages
        600 http://ftp2.de.debian.org unstable/main Packages
     10-13 0
        500 http://ftp2.de.debian.org stable/main Packages
HappyTux:/home/stephen# apt-get -s install pacman
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
The following NEW packages will be installed:
   pacman (10-14)
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 6 not upgraded.
Inst pacman (10-14 Debian:testing)
Conf pacman (10-14 Debian:testing)
HappyTux:/home/stephen# apt-get install pacman
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
The following NEW packages will be installed:
   pacman (10-14)
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 6 not upgraded.
Need to get 26.8kB of archives.
After unpacking 266kB of additional disk space will be used.
Get:1 http://ftp2.de.debian.org testing/main pacman 10-14 [26.8kB]
Fetched 26.8kB in 0s (30.7kB/s)
Reading package fields... Done
Reading package status... Done
Retrieving bug reports... Done
Reading changelogs... Done
Selecting previously deselected package pacman.
(Reading database ... 77527 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking pacman (from .../archives/pacman_10-14_i386.deb) ...
Setting up pacman (10-14) ...

HappyTux:/home/stephen# pacman
bash: pacman: command not found
HappyTux:/home/stephen# whereis pacman
pacman: /usr/games/pacman /usr/share/man/man6/pacman.6.gz
HappyTux:/home/stephen# /usr/games/pacman

You have to add it to the menus yourself and choose some icon it does not seem to come with it's own. It starts with the game playing so reading the man page would be a good idea to find out the command line switches if any.

[UltraMega]

I tried all that but I still get the error messages I quoted earlier. Hmmm...

[Stephen]

I tried all that but I still get the error messages I quoted earlier. Hmmm...

Try strace pacman to see where it is failing.

[UltraMega]

The "strace pacman" command spit out a few hundred lines of output, and looks cryptic to me. There's a few lines here and there complaining about "No such file or directory" for "/etc/ld.so.nohwcap", but that might not be related. Want me to cut & paste the entire output, or just the last screen of text?

[Stephen]

The "strace pacman" command spit out a few hundred lines of output, and looks cryptic to me. There's a few lines here and there complaining about "No such file or directory" for "/etc/ld.so.nohwcap", but that might not be related. Want me to cut & paste the entire output, or just the last screen of text?

Even stranger I have no such file:

HappyTux:/home/stephen# ll /etc/ld.so.*
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root          36K 2003-12-31 04:18 /etc/ld.so.cache
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root           96 2003-12-18 21:54 /etc/ld.so.conf

Unless it is looking in the ld.so.conf file for a path here is what is in mine:

/usr/X11R6/lib

/usr/lib/libc5-compat
/lib/libc5-compat
/usr/i486-linuxlibc1/lib
/usr/local/lib

For the output do you have some place where you can put a text file on the web and put a URL here it's probably better than having a huge post.

[UltraMega]

Here ya go...thanks.

[spydie]

When you say I should get the package from debian do you mean download it at debian.com or what?

How do I add it to the menus myself?
Do I add it to the menu well in KPackage?

Thanks for helping me out,

[spydie]

I should maybe add, being a newbie I don't really know what to do with the code that is being posted.

I would like to be able to just click, download and install something simple to see how it works.

Unless you can give me step by step instructions on what I should be doing with the code.

Thanks again for taking the time to help this newbie out