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Installing a rollercoaster tycoon 2 tar.gz file

Asked by davidzaq1

Hello,

I found an open source rollercoaster tycoon 2 for ubuntu 16.04. at https://openrct2.org/downloads

There was also a compile at: https://github.com/OpenRCT2/OpenRCT2#3-building-the-game

But I do not know how to compile anything but if you could give me the steps, I could try it.

I tried to follow some previous commands for installing a .tar.gz file but it did not work.

Here is the output from the first command:

$ tar -xzf /home/stanw/Downloads/OpenRCT2-0.0.7-develop-2bafea9-linux-x86_64.tar.gz
tar: Skipping to next header
tar: A lone zero block at 21845
tar: Exiting with failure status due to previous errors

Thank you.

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Manfred Hampl (m-hampl) said : 		#1

It seems that something went wrong during download and the file is broken.

Why do you always want to install from tarball files?
There are PPAs with precompiled versions for Ubuntu for easy installation with the package management system, see https://launchpad.net/~openrct2

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davidzaq1 (david3a9x) said : 		#2

Hello,

Thank you for your reply. I do not want to install from the tarball files. If there are PPA's with recompiled versions available, I would rather use them.

For this software, I did see the link you provided. But I cannot figure out to use this. I am not sure what to click on or where to find the download.

I did install the PPA but I do not have the download for the program.

Do you know what to click on and how to get this installed?

Thank you.

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Manfred Hampl (m-hampl) said : 		#3

Forget the term "download", but just use the package management system programs for installing applications.

Which PPA have you now activated?

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davidzaq1 (david3a9x) said : 		#4

Hello,

Thank you again for the reply.

I used this PPA: nightly ppa for OpenRCT2

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Manfred Hampl (m-hampl) said : 		#5

Have you verified whether that PPA has a version for your Ubuntu release?
Apparently building of the newest version has failed in this PPA, see https://launchpad.net/~openrct2/+archive/ubuntu/nightly/+packages

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davidzaq1 (david3a9x) said : 		#6

Yes, there is a version for Xenial. But for the life of me I cannot find a way to get it.

I clicked on the link you provided and followed about 20 pages and could find any information on how to get this.

the only packages I could see that were available were .gz

I really do not need it. It was a nice idea.

Thank you

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Manfred Hampl (m-hampl) said : 		#7

Look at https://launchpad.net/~openrct2/+archive/ubuntu/nightly/+packages an you will see that the attempt to build a package for xenial in that PPA has failed (red cross besides amd64, i386, ...)
Choose another PPA or really take the tarball from github and compile the program yourself with the instructions as given in https://github.com/OpenRCT2/OpenRCT2#3-building-the-game
Just read and follow the instructions.

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davidzaq1 (david3a9x) said : 		#8

Hello,

I really do not know how to compile anything and the information on the link you provided me was very confusing.

I do not need the program. I just thought it might be interesting.

Thank you for your help.

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Manfred Hampl (m-hampl) said : 		#9

You need not know any details of compiling programs if you are able to read and follow the instructions in https://github.com/OpenRCT2/OpenRCT2#3-building-the-game and https://github.com/OpenRCT2/OpenRCT2/wiki/Building-OpenRCT2-on-Linux Ignore all paragraphs for other operating systems like archlinux and gentoo, just do what is written for APT (Debian, Ubuntu).