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Dutch_Master

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Registered: 2018-05-31

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Widelands error

For a while now I'm getting an error when starting (attempting to) a widelands game with one particular tribe. See attached. This might be an upstream issue, but said tribe worked on the previous Stable version of Devuan. Other tribes on the current version work normally.

[edit: it appears posting images on/to this forum is disabled as there's no way to upload them.]

golinux

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Registered: 2016-11-25

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Re: Widelands error

This forum has never provided the ability for users to post images directly. They have to be self-hosted elsewhere and linked..

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Dutch_Master

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Registered: 2018-05-31

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Re: Widelands error

This should work, I guess:

OK, it does

So, is this a Devuan issue or upstream?

Tomek-70

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Registered: 2026-04-29

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Re: Widelands error

AFAIK, the appimage is available for download on the official widelands web page. It works without any problems. (Well, I haven't played it for so long, but each tribe can be started without any problems.)

There's also a flatpak available.

I'm not sure, if that's a solution to your problem. Is your problem just running/playing Widelands, or running Widelands using the official Debian/Devuan package?

Dutch_Master

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Registered: 2018-05-31

Posts: 326  

Re: Widelands error

I'm on Devuan Stable and refuse to use anything other then apt for installing packages. Appimage and flatpack (as well as snap) are fundamentally windows-fying the Linux install system b/c that's what we do on Windows Yes, on Win-OS, but Linux is damn well not Win-OS!

Rant over