Talk:Puzzle Pirates installation guide (Linux)
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Do we have a page that references technical issues, and solutions? Should there be more technical issues articles on the wiki?
- We don't yet. I did link to this from Puzzle Pirates. If you have other technical issues that merit an article, pick a good name and create them. We can create a technical issues category to index them. --Guppymomma 19:18, 9 March 2006 (PST)
- I'd love this, as I don't have nearly enough time to write up documentation for common technical issues, and if I can send people to the wiki, so much the better! --Lizthegrey 00:28, 10 March 2006 (PST)
- Okay, template created. I'll fix it up more later. For any other technical issues pages you create just pop {{technical issue}} on the first line. Edit: And you can see what's in the category at Category:Technical issues. --Guppymomma 09:53, 11 March 2006 (PST)
List of tech issues needing wikification
Just starting a to do list of sorts. --Guppymomma 14:45, 29 April 2006 (PDT)
Disputed
Hi, sorry if I used the wrong tag for this! But, this page has several problems. Firstly it's extremely out-of-date; for instance, the recommendation to download Java SDK 1.4 - both a security risk, and no longer compatible with the next client release. Most Linux distros can use Java SE 6 (the SDK/JDK is not needed and is a huge download; only the JRE is needed to run programs.) Also, nearly all Linux distros have a package management system, which obviates the need to download direct from Sun. I use Ubuntu; the only command needed there is sudo apt-get install sun-java6-jre. But the method changes since other distributions use completely different package management. The beginning user should never be encouraged to download/install software directly when it is available through package management. At any rate, I don't have time tonight to update the article, but I will have time during this week to get it improved. I didn't realize there was an article here, I came because of a link from the forum, so since it has gained a bit of currency I thought it best to tag it as bad, rather than erasing a section or two and rambling on without collecting my thoughts. --Chupchup 08:17, 15 July 2008 (UTC)
- I gave this a bit of thought and couldn't really come up with any alternative tags to stick on the page, so leaving disputed up there is fine for now. I'm pretty sure there's a template for marking stuff as out-of-date somewhere. Thanks for letting us know that the information was erroneous! --Featherfin 14:14, 16 July 2008 (UTC)
- {{Update}} (Usage) is what you are looking for :-) --Sagacious (talk) 17:38, 16 July 2008 (UTC)
- Actually, no, the update template does not seem to be a strong enough wording to discourage people from using the instructions as-is. There are security problems with installing Java 1.4. The package management system could become confused by a manual Java installation. The update tag is low-key, and appears to address editors only, rather than the reader. I'm adding back the disputed tag on top of the update tag. Chupchup 05:53, 17 July 2008 (UTC)
- {{Update}} (Usage) is what you are looking for :-) --Sagacious (talk) 17:38, 16 July 2008 (UTC)
OpenAL on Ubuntu
I'm not sure where this information is most appropriately presented. Ubuntu 8.10 (Intrepid Ibex) comes with the libopenal1 Debian package installed out of the box, but not libopenal-dev. The latter is needed for sound to work under the org.lwjgl package used by YPP. I found that out after much frustrating research on other sites and discussions, because nothing is mentioned in YPPedia or the YPP forums. --Fuzzybeard 05:17, 1 March 2009 (UTC)
I thought I'd append this. On Ubuntu 9.10 neither libopenal1 nor libopenal-dev are installed by default. So you'll need to run "sudo apt-get install libopenal1 libopenal-dev" to get sound working in YPP. --Harvie4 04:50, 15 November 2009 (UTC)
