UFO: Alien Invasion (new)

[slax]

UFO: Alien Invasion is a strategy game featuring tactical combat against hostile alien forces which are about to infiltrate earth at this very moment. You are in command of a small special unit which has been founded to face the alien strike force. To be successful on the long run, you will also have to have a research team study the aliens and their technologies in order to learn as much as possible about their technology, their goals and the aliens themselves.

UFO: Alien Invasion is a free game, licensed under GNU GPL, heavily inspired by the X-COM series by Mythos and Microprose. The first game of the series, UFO DEFENSE (AKA ENEMY UNKNOWN), became a classic and, in our honest opinion, is one of the best games ever made. UFO:AI is neither a sequel nor a remake of UFO DEFENSE - we simply had the urge to create a similar strategy game, which will hopefully be as entertaining as the original was for the players (and for the developers, of course ).



http://ufoai.sourceforge.net/?page=Download

This is awesome game and it should be in the pclos repos! It's also multilingual.

Promo trailer:
http://szklo.eu.org/~mattn/ufoai-2.2-promo.avi

[Joble]

Can't find a license on that site.  It is Sourceforge, so it should be GPL, but I can't find it.

[slax]

http://ufoai.ninex.info/wiki/index.php/License

"GNU General Public License v2.0" (GNU GPL2)

[slax]

Hi,
i installed the game with their loki installer (.run file) and the game needs libcurl-gnutls.so.4 library.

I cant find it anywhere? can someone help me?

Thanx inforward

[Joble]

Maybe this?
/usr/lib/libcurl.so.4
Not sure if it's the same thing, but might be worth a shot.

[Joble]

I've got the src and the run files.  If you or I can figure out the dependency problem I think we can get this in the repo.  The AlienArena spec file looks pretty close to what is needed, shouldn't be to hard to figure out, if you, or I can get it to run in the first place.

[slax]

Thanx Joble
This way i can also learn the process of getting the package done for PCLOS repo, so i can later contribute packages by myself and my friends. I remember running some older version of this game on pclos2007, but they obviously changed the dependencies from then.

I serached for ibcurl-gnutls package, but there is no info of its existence i found somewhere that the libcurl has to be compiled with gnutls support for ibcurl-gnutls.so.4 to be compiled.

So i will try first to make symlink as you suggested from libcurl -> ibcurl-gnutls and to see if it works.

I've checked the dynamic links:
ldd ufo

and only this library is missing, so everything other that that seems ok.

I'll get back to you later,
regards

[slax]

Works like a charm

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ln -s /usr/lib/libcurl.so.4 /usr/lib/libcurl-gnutls.so.4
I'll try to compile from source now and see also where data files goes.

[Joble]

Thunderstorm took the power out yesterday, I didn't get to work on it much.  Have you looked at that spec file?

[slax]

I've instaled minime under virtualbox and now i'm seting the local repo.
I'm trying to do this by the book

As i understood, package needs to be suplied as source rpm?

So i'll try to compile it first and see what are the dependencies. I'll post what i did tomorrow after work.

On which spec file do you mean? alienarena?

[Joble]

Yes, alienarena uses a datafile, that spec looks like it has all the elements we need to build this, just have to modify it accordingly.  Just wondered if you'd had a chance to look at it yet.

[slax]

i also stumbled on this:
http://rpm.pbone.net/index.php3?stat=3&search=ufoai&srodzaj=3

maybe we can modify fedora rpms for pclos?

[Joble]

Possibly, I will get it tonight and take a look.

[Joble]

I've got the fedora and suse spec files.  A bit of differenc between the two.  Personally I prefer to modify the alienarena spec file with the information provided in the other two, but that's just me and I tend to do things the hard way, I think I learn more from it.  Waiting for you then, any progress?

[slax]

I was really busy last couple days, but i'll continue tomorrow.

We can go with modifying alienarena spec file.

Can you please give me a link to spec file, i can't find it... don't know where to search?