openttd installation in Linux Ubuntu

[yccheok]

i am using ubuntu linux 5.04 hoary

does anyone noe where i can use synaptic package manager to get a openttd - the open source transport tycoon deluxe?

i try to get the debian file from the openttd homepage, however, i get the following error while trying to perform the installation:

yccheok@ubuntu:~/Downloads$ sudo dpkg -i openttd_0.4.0.1-2_i386.deb
Selecting previously deselected package openttd.
(Reading database ... 67543 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking openttd (from openttd_0.4.0.1-2_i386.deb) ...
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of openttd:
openttd depends on libc6 (>= 2.3.2.ds1-21); however:
Version of libc6 on system is 2.3.2.ds1-20ubuntu13.
dpkg: error processing openttd (--install):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Errors were encountered while processing:
openttd

any suggestion?

thanks

cheok

[matthijs]

Hey,

I've seen this problem before. The working "solution" is to just force the install by giving --force-depends (IIRC) to dpkg.
The cause for this is that the package is made for debian/unstable, not for ubuntu. I'm thinking of a solution for this, but I'm not sure how...

I expect this problem occurs more often with other debian packages trying to install on ubuntu, if they don't have the newest libc version?

Matthijs

[habell]

I've Linux Ubuntu too, but didn't have this problem. I didn't download the Debian though, I downloaded openttd-0.4.0.1-linux.i386.tar.gz and that worked great

[Zuu]

and if it is not to scarry all you have to do to compile the sources is to unpack the source package, cd to the directory and type "make<enter>". It should not take that much time if you're not at a very slow machine with 640kb RAM. On my mchine it takes 5 minutes or so. (to compare, open office takes 12 hours)

Then as with binarys you had to apply the TTD files.

[Burgundavia]

The issue is that Sarge broke compatibility with Hoary just before the release, and thus most sarge packages will not install on Hoary.

Corey