Bug 28596

Summary:	tuxracer doesn't run - complains about location of data files
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Mark Knecht <markknecht>
Component:	[OLD] Games	Assignee:	Gentoo Games <games>
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID
Severity:	normal
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Mark Knecht 2003-09-13 04:16:52 UTC

Pretty explanitory info below. The game doesn't run. It looks like the data
files either didn't get installed, or are at some other location.

bash-2.05b$ tuxracer 
Tux Racer 0.61 -- a Sunspire Studios Production (http://www.sunspirestudios.com)
(c) 1999-2000 Jasmin F. Patry <jfpatry@sunspirestudios.com>
"Tux Racer" is a trademark of Jasmin F. Patry
Tux Racer comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. This is free software,
and you are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions.
See http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html for details.

*** tuxracer error: Can't find the tuxracer data directory.  Please check the
value of `data_dir' in ~/.tuxracer/options and set it to the location where you
installed the tuxracer-data files.

Couldn't chdir to /usr/share/tuxracer (No such file or directory)
bash-2.05b$


From ~/.tuxracer/options

# data_dir
#
# The location of the Tux Racer data files
#
set data_dir "/usr/share/tuxracer"


bash-2.05b$ ls /usr/share/tuxracer
ls: /usr/share/tuxracer: No such file or directory
bash-2.05b$ 


Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. tuxracer
2.
3.

Actual Results:  
As above

Expected Results:  
Should run

Comment 1 Mr. Bones. (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2003-09-14 02:14:01 UTC

I bet you didn't follow the directions that were displayed when you merged
tuxracer:

 * If you had the game installed before please reset
 * the data_dir variable in ~/.tuxracer/options

Or, you can do what I did:

  rm -rf ~/.tuxracer

But that will get rid of all your save games.