Linux fog

[lightbloom54]

I see no instructions to install this game on Linux. With my limited experience with Linux it needs far more babying than other OS. I have Ubuntu 12.04 and playonlinux installed. I assume you install it through Playonlinux and let it do its thing but maybe not. Currently I am waiting for a response from support about not being able to extract the files in Ubuntu using 7zip.
Any information would be helpful.

[IainMcNeil]

Have you looked at the manual - it has some instructions in there.

[VPaulus]

LINUX
Installation
Extract the distributed .zip file, browse inside the extracted
“Pandora/Binaries” directory

[lightbloom54]

AAAh I do remember reading about that and forgot. My bad! Will give it a try.

[lightbloom54]

Lets try again shall we. Ubuntu 12.04. Downloaded the file. i assume that since I have a 64 bit laptop, i am supposed to choose the 64 bit file. i choose the file Pandora in the binaries folder. nothing happens. The default app that is trying to open th file is pyar2, which only asks me to save the file. What default app should be opening this file? I allowed the computer to look for an application to open the file and it downloaded emacs2 file which I have no idea how to use and don't know whether it is the right app. I didn't think it would be easy.

Do I need a mouse installed for the game to install?
Do i need a higher version of Ubuntu to run the game? currently 12.04
Is there a particular app needed for the game to load?
It doesn't seem to want to compile.
I tried to include a system log file but there were too many characters.
Is the game coded to run under a wine application?


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[chieftain]

Lets try again shall we. Ubuntu 12.04. Downloaded the file. i assume that since I have a 64 bit laptop, i am supposed to choose the 64 bit file. i choose the file Pandora in the binaries folder. nothing happens. The default app that is trying to open th file is pyar2, which only asks me to save the file. What default app should be opening this file? I allowed the computer to look for an application to open the file and it downloaded emacs2 file which I have no idea how to use and don't know whether it is the right app. I didn't think it would be easy.

Do I need a mouse installed for the game to install?
Do i need a higher version of Ubuntu to run the game? currently 12.04
Is there a particular app needed for the game to load?
It doesn't seem to want to compile.
I tried to include a system log file but there were too many characters.
Is the game coded to run under a wine application?

You received a zipped file with a shell script (file called Pandora). By default, you can't run it in Ubuntu with a "double click", you need to run it from terminal with "./" (without quotes) infront of the shell script. :

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cd ~/Pandora/Binaries/
./Pandora

or

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./Pandora/Binaries/Pandora

(if you extracted .zip file in your /home folder)

To enable "double click executables" in Ubuntu, open your file manager, go to Files->Preferences->Behavior->Select "Ask each time". Then double click on file "Pandora" and select either "Run" on "Run in terminal".

Alternatively, you can setup Pandora in Steam, just add file "Pandora" when you add new game in Steam Library.

[lightbloom54]

Sweet! Thank you! I'll give it a try!

[lightbloom54]

OK I am using Archive to extract the game. When it extracts it to the home folder, I see no Pandora folder by itself, but it is still under Pandora release_64 zip folder in the folder hierarchy. Should I use another program to extract? When I use the terminal it says that there is no directory or file when using both terminal commands above. I did the cd command to make sure I m in the home folder in terminal. I have never had so much trouble installing a freaking game. And my steps to open it in steam are add a non steam game, finally found the pandora file and clicked open but nothing happened.

[chieftain]

You downloaded a zipped file Pandora-Release-Linux.zip, which contains two additional zipped files Pandora-Release-Linux-x86_32.zip and Pandora-Release-Linux-x86_64.zip.
You have to extract the Pandora-Release-Linux-x86_64.zip first and then open this newly unzipped file again with Archiver. There you will find a game folder Pandora, which you should extract wherever you wish (like /home ).

After that, game can be run normally as described in previous posts.

[lightbloom54]

Did do this once, but it gave me an arrow message. Must have had a corrupted download. Will try it again.

[lightbloom54]

It recognizes th directory but we have more fun things to figure out. I hope the game is this fun. The following appeared on my screen after punching in the terminal code./pandora/binaries/pandora

mark@mark-laptop:~$ ./Pandora/Binaries/Pandora
/home/mark/Pandora/Binaries/Pandora.bin: 1: /home/mark/Pandora/Binaries/Pandora.bin: ELF: not found
/home/mark/Pandora/Binaries/Pandora.bin: 2: /home/mark/Pandora/Binaries/Pandora.bin: Syntax error: "(" unexpected
mark@mark-laptop:~$

To let you know I don't have the latest video drivers loaded. After an automatic update, several plyonlinux games would not run and steam would not load. After removing latest drivers, steam loaded properly. May have to figure that out before I can load the game. Evidently the update took out my opengl32 packages. I'm assuming my terminal response is why it is not loading through steam. I put Pandora in my library with the pandora file, but no go, even though it lists the game in my library

[lightbloom54]

If Ubuntu had a throat, I would strangle it. I'm going to do a reinstall 0f 12.04 as it appears I have broken packages from an automatic update. Thanks for your help.

[chieftain]

ELF errors are usually caused due to architecture differences, eg. running 32-bit app on 64 bit systems without proper support. If you are running Ubuntu 12.04 LTS 32-bit you should run the 32-bit executable and vice versa, 64 bit executable on 64-bit Ubuntu. You can run 32-bit app on a 64-bit Ubuntu, but you need the libraries for the 32-bit arch (I think the package is called "ia32-libs", install with: apt-get install ia32-libs).

Strange, because I had one of the smoothest Linux experience with Pandora. Download, unzip, unzip, run...later create shortcuts in Launcher and Steam... enjoy.

[JamieLee]

If you want to run the 32 bit version on a 64 bit system

Check own architecture:
dpkg --print-architecture

Check if a foreign architecture is installed:
dpkg --print-foreign-architectures

sudo dpkg --add-architecture i386 && sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install ia32-libs

unzip file.zip -d xxx Where XXX is the directory u want it unzipped to

after that just run it by /home/yourname/directoryname/xarchdirectoryname/./filename u can just create a desktop shortcut for that if u wish..