Autopackage is not working on Ubuntu Dapper Drake (6.06)

[thelusiv]

Hi Jan, welcome to the forums.

I have the same problem on Suse 10.1
I installed openal and freealut from openal.org (funny though that the two packages did not match in their depencies. freealut wants libopenal.so.1 but openal doesn't provide that)
So I made the appropriate link in /usr/lib
Still no luck.

So is there perhaps another ALUT package available? Personally I'm confused about FreeALUT vs OpenALUT, I don't know if they're different versions or what.

edit: I kinda misread that, I see you got it from OpenAL.org and not SuSE packages. Doesn't SuSE provide some packages for OpenAL and friends? Also, are you sure that you've got OpenAL installed correctly? Have you found any other people with the same problem of mismatched dependencies?

I managed to compile the game but unfortunately I have gcc 4.1 and the cars are only bouncing, and I cannot install gcc 3.x just to compile this game.
Couldn't you just release the binary file vdrift. I assume that is all I need to get it working.

The gcc4 bug has been fixed in our SVN repository. If you'd like to checkout the code, it should work, plus you'll get a few other new goodies that have been added since the last release. Right now would be a good time because the latest SVN is not broken in any way. There are also some new fixes for sound bugs that may make it easier to get working with the libraries your system provides. This FAQ entry explains how to check out VDrift from SVN: http://vdrift.net/faqman/index.php?op=view&t=18

Rather than release a binary of VDrift besides the Autopackage, it would be nice if someone who ran SuSE would make a good package for that OS and we can release that.