Patch Upgrade Question

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Sat Oct 07, 2006 10:42 pm

  • i'm using kubuntu linux (6.10) and nexuiz 2.0 from the ubuntu repos thanks to Fuddl. i have downloaded the 2.0.1 patch upgrade and extracted the folder.

    what is the proper way to "upgrade" nexuiz 2.0 to 2.0.1?

    i know its a noob question but thanks
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Sun Oct 08, 2006 12:05 am

  • The debian (and so the (k)ubuntu are slightly changed compared to the plain nexuiz zip file that is availalbe to download. (File structure and such kind of things have been changed) So i can't really tell you HOW to do it but its for sure possible. Fuddl also has a 2.1 paket ready that just needs to get uploaded by some debian developer.. maybe he can make it available to you.
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Sun Oct 08, 2006 7:48 am

  • The problem is that the Debian package also changed parts of the engine so it looks in other parts. However, you can use "apt-get source" to download the Debian-patched engine sources and apply the same changes to 2.1, but you need some development skills to do that.

    However, if you just want to play on remote servers, you can stick to 2.0 for now and live with that sometimes occurring crash after download - and if you want to run a dedicated server, just use our package instead of the Debian package.
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Sun Oct 08, 2006 2:53 pm

  • divVerent wrote:The problem is that the Debian package also changed parts of the engine so it looks in other parts.

    Fuddl didn't change anything to the engine, except for backporting the screenshot crash fix & using 2.1 gcc options. Everything else is done with a wrapper shellscript and symlinks.
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Mon Oct 09, 2006 1:22 am

  • esteel wrote:Yes but one can't just extract the patch somewere to make it work with the debian 2.0 package. The files need to be put into the right places..


    thanks for that confirmation. thats what i thought based on the file structure in the patch. very confusing for a first time nexuiz user. or at least tedious to track down all the dirs to put stuff in. i guess i'll just wait for fuddl to release the new version since i have to ship my modem back to qwest to get a replacement anyways. :(
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Sun Nov 05, 2006 5:29 pm

  • any advice on appling the patch to nexuis3.0 on my fc5 install from the extras reposs data is in /usr/share/nexius/data with the binariies at /usr/bin/ . i am also haveing a problem with hard frezzes with the glx binary and some randon frezzes with the sdl version as well but it is very playable when it does :D

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Mon Nov 06, 2006 9:49 am

  • I have no idea how things are changed for FC. But i guess its enough to copy the new pk3 file into the same dir as the old ones and to copy the new binaries over the old ones. For debian this is a bit more complicated as they also softlink the pk3 and have a custom startup script so that Nexuiz does find all those pk3 files. I never really looked into the debian packages although i installed them at some point. Its just i use the official package or build the current development sources by hand..
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Mon Nov 06, 2006 3:03 pm

  • thx esteel no soft links that i could find so it sould work as you say i'll give it a try and post the results 8) and if it doesn't i'll just d/l the full pkg then or build it 8)

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Mon Nov 06, 2006 7:41 pm

  • well dicided to D/L the whole thing 2.1 that is and am runnig it all in userland :lol: much easier that way 8) works great much smmother and the sound track is way better :shock: may try online when i know the maps a bit better.
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Mon Nov 06, 2006 8:56 pm

  • The soundtrack is better? Its the same :) But maybe the improvments in 2.1 help with sound problems..
    Yes the zip file is very convenient and can be used on all three systems (mac, lin, win).

    Hope to see you soon online.. just had to play against three others in CTF that was not very nice :)
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