Difference between revisions of "Talk:Installation Instructions"

Latest revision as of 11:49, 17 August 2010

Installing for ubuntu (using wine)

Some notes wether you are planning to make a linux version would be apreciated. I just installed succesfully using wine, the process to do so: (assumed readers were noobs)

-make sure have wine ofcourse, for Ubuntu see if you have it $sudo apt-get show wine and install if you dont: $sudo apt-get install wine

-download, unzip, use command $wine setup.exe to install, the install will go somewhere in wines fake drive_c, like defaultly .wine/drive_c/Program Files/DarwinBotsII. Note a few things: .wine is a hidden folder, use '$ls -a' to find it, it is probably in /home/user_name/.wine (fill in your user name) and the space in Program Files will annoy a linux user. Go to the Darwinbots directory with wildcards: $cd /home/user_name/.wine/drive_c/Program*/DarwinBots*

-trying to run now it asks for the following *.DLL file: MSVBVM60.DLL, get it (googling will find it quickly), put it in the Darwinbots directory (same directory as Darwin.exe)

-in the Darwinbots directory: $wine Darwin.exe hopefully works now

Installing in Users\Public on Windows Vista/7

The installer defaults to "Program Files" (or "Program Files (x86)" if you're using 64-bit Windows), which is protected by UAC in Windows Vista and Windows 7. Due to this, you have to run DarwinBots in admin mode if you plan to use the autosave features.

One way around this is to install DarwinBots to a folder under Users\Public, such as C:\Users\Public\Games. This will allow the application to write to it's local folders even when not running as an administrator. (I actually learned the trick from the WoW installer.) I have done this recently, and it works as a good Windows program should.

Should we add this to the installation instructions?

--Wake 16:49, 17 August 2010 (UTC)