Installation #3
Description
Pretty much everyone so far has had issues installing/getting this game to run so below are a few fixes (hopefully!) to common issues:
Install instructions can be found at the following places:
FIFE not found:
Ok so this game uses the FIFE game engine and this seems to be comprised of two packages.
1. fifengine
2. fifechan
My recommended way of installing thsese is NOT to follow the instructions on Unknown Horizons website as they recommend you build them from source which involves installing many buildtime dependencies which aren't even required to play the game. Also the build system(s) for these (once you install them!) appear to be setup to install the packages into the "/usr/local/lib" directory (at least on linux). This causes the game not to see them and fail to start
So I recommend that you find an already packaged version for your particular operating system.
If however you do have to build them from source then you will probably have to create a symbolic link (posh name for a shortcut) from where they should be installed to where they have actually been installed. This can be done by running the followiing commands
$ cd /path/to/where/install/should/be
# ln -s /path/to/where/install/is/libfife*.0.*
On linux this typically should be installed in /usr/lib
The game itself is pure python and so should run fine once you have installed FIFE correctly. Hope this helps!