ip 128.61.105.190
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title Croquet Collaborative -- fixes to v0.1 for Linux
user strick
base r.1167605547000_28T

Schwa & Howard have a croquet disto -> http://www.croquetcollaborative.org/

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/b Take the following with a grain of salt:
/b Some of the issues have been resolved;
/b Some of my reactions were misguided.

How I fixed v0.1 to work under linux (Fedora Core 4; YMMV):
/b [NOTICE that v0.2 is now published]
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* Download my version of this file ->
/file Croquet.sh
  . Theirs had a wrong image name, and was DOS format --
Linux really doesn't like the ControlMs (Carriage Returns).
/i Actually, that script breaks when done-digit version numbers end the image filename,
/i unless you specify the image name yourself.

* Change this one method ->
/file Scratch.1.cs.bin
(remove the .bin extension).
That masks around needing OpenAL to *work*.
You still need it to be loadable, it seems,
so that's what the next three items are about:

* Put
http://www.smilax.org/144/OpenALPlugin.so
in the bin/i686* directory

* Make sure you have libopenal: [FedoraCore]
/ /tt yum install openal

* Make a link in /usr/local/lib to libopenal without the .so number:
[FedoraCore]
/ /tt ln -s /usr/lib/libopenal.so.0 /usr/local/lib/libopenal.so

* /tt chmod +x Croquet.sh bin/i686-pc-linux-gnu/*

* The instructions say to change the interactivity server hostname to
/i empty
for testing your local system.  That does not seem to work
for me.  However leaving the default (
/tt www.croquetcollaborative.org
) does work for me, after a pause.
Be patient for a minute or so.



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/b What was really wrong:
my box's "hostname" (according to the OS), looked up in /etc/hosts , did not match the IP address that
the box got from DHCP.  Suggestion for running all on one node:  set hostname to 'localhost'.
For running a server for other clients: make sure hostname, /etc/hosts, and ifconfig all agree.

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I did that, before I learned how to update with Monticello.
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* [LeftClick] open... > Monticello Browser
* For each of the four "http://hedgehog.software.umn.edu...." items in the right column,
click the item, and click <Open> at top right, and...
* In the new "Repository" window, for each
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in the left column (if any), click on the item, and...
* In the right column, for each
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above the underlined item, from the bottom one to the to one, click the item
and clock <Load> at the top.
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( marginally useful YAK pages on Croquet -- http://www.smilax.org/144 -- http://wiki.yak.net/635 --
http://yak.net/croquet/ -- http://speedy.cs.uiuc.edu/~johnson/croquet/Dormouse-20/StrickAndRyan/ )


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/b Code Drops (works in progress) (not related to just making Croquet work on Linux)
* /file Grid2.16.cs
* /file Grid2.18.cs
* /file Grid3.3.cs
* /file HelpfulForLinux.1.cs
* /file RefactorKCPWorlds.3.cs
* /file OpenALPlugin.so
* /file libopenal.s