Second life installeren..

[hansstam]

Hello all..

I am a newbie in Linux.. and I have the next question..
I have downloaded from the Second life website this file:

SecondLife-i686-3.2.8.248931.tar.bz2

How I install this file so that I can work with Second Life.

Please don t refer to any helpsite.. but please give an example in chronological order what to do..

Thanks!

Hanhs

[RAWRferal]

Hi and welcome.

The file you have is an archive, similar to a .RAR or .ZIP file.

I don't play Second Life personally, but I would open the file using Archive Manager and look for a readme file or similar, as there may be installation instructions there.

[bu99zy]

Extract the files, like RAWRferal said

Go into the new folder, look for a file named secondlife and double click it and it should run the program

If not you are probably using a 64bit OS and you need to install the following 32-bit compatibility packages

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sudo apt-get install ia32-libs ia32-libs-gtk ia32-libs-kde ia32-libs-sdl

note if you don't have kde installed it is just

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sudo apt-get install ia32-libs ia32-libs-gtk ia32-libs-sdl

You should also install the gstreamer-plugins-base, gstreamer-plugins-ugly and libuuid1 packages to hear the music streaming

I'd actually recommend a third party viewer as they have extra tools, Singularity Viewer runs very well on less powerful computers or FireStorm or Phoenix

http://www.singularityviewer.org/downloads

http://www.phoenixviewer.com/

[BCL]

I am running LMDE 64 bit and trying to get the Phoenix viewer running. Unfortunately, it crashes immediately.

Further investigation revealed in the startup script, the following message (which is never seen, because it closes as soon as it is displayed):

You are running the Second Life Viewer on a x86_64 platform. The
most common problems when launching the Viewer (particularly
'bin/$VIEWER_BINARY: not found' and 'error while
loading shared libraries') may be solved by installing your Linux
distribution's 32-bit compatibility packages.
For example, on Ubuntu and other Debian-based Linuxes you might run:
$ sudo apt-get install ia32-libs ia32-libs-gtk ia32-libs-kde ia32-libs-sdl

I have done what it suggested, but the last two (ia32-libs-kde ia32-libs-sdl) did not get installed, and I don't understand why.

This is the output:

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$ sudo apt-get install ia32-libs ia32-libs-gtk ia32-libs-kde ia32-libs-sdl
Building dependency tree       
    Reading state information... Done
    E: Unable to locate package ia32-libs-kde
    E: Unable to locate package ia32-libs-sdl

It still does not run. Could someone please help? Thanks.

[ashtonford]

theres a much easier way all you need to do is extract the sl file that you have, and go to the install shell file right click on that file open with terminal and when it asks do you want to run it in terminal select yes it will then run in terminal and install it on your computer. Install the 32 bit of the sl viewer and you will be fine. the viewer off the second life web site is the best choice for most people. Its what I use

[bu99zy]

Hi BCL

I too have just installed LMDE x64 and I'm having the exact problem as you.

After googling for a while, I have found that there are no packages in LMDE named ia32-libs-kde or ia32-libs-sdl , so at the moment I can't run SL on LMDE

The funny thing is I also have a normal Mint install on another computer and when I try to install the 32-bit compatibility packages

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$ sudo apt-get install ia32-libs ia32-libs-gtk ia32-libs-kde ia32-libs-sdl
Building dependency tree       
    Reading state information... Done
    E: Unable to locate package ia32-libs-kde
    E: Unable to locate package ia32-libs-sdl

Even though ia32-libs-sdl or ia32-libs-kde failed to install SL still worked on the normal Mint install

I noticed the error on LMDE always happened at this point

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2012-05-03T01:38:45Z WARNING: llwindow/llwindowsdl.cpp(637) : createContext: createContext: window creation failure. SDL: Couldn't find matching GLX visual 

Which makes me think its a sdl package that is missing.

So I went to my normal Mint install and searched sdl in synaptic to differentiate what sdl packages where not installed in LMDE and the difference was libsdl1.2debian-pulseaudio was not installed in LMDE.

Unfortunately after I installed LMDE, I went with the sid/unstable repo and the only download of libsdl1.2debian-pulseaudio is for stable, when I try to install it, the gDebi installer tells me it will break my system and stops the installation of that file.

Hopefully there is someone out there with a LMDE x64 install that is using the normal Mint repo's that can test if installing libsdl1.2debian-pulseaudio will make SL work.

Here is the link to the libsdl1.2debian-pulseaudio file (squeeze/stable)

http://packages.debian.org/squeeze/amd6 ... o/download

[BCL]

Thank you, bu99zy. At the moment, I'm having another problem -- this one with the video driver (I installed Catalyst, and it's not working well). I have an intuitive feeling they might be distantly related, and all wrapped up with the dismal state of the window manager. I'm currently using Cinnamon (since Gnome 3/shell is just not yet ready for useful work), but I'm finding that Cinnamon is not ready for prime time either. And thought I haven't tried MATE yet, I suspect is too is in an incomplete state. Of course, there's no KDE (my usual WM), so, I'm considering using maybe fluxbox or xfce.

I'll post back if I have any better luck.

Oh, BTW, when I installed Catalyst, I did get SL to run (poorly) for a short time. It's quite a mess that needs to be sorted.

[BCL]

OK. I switched over to MATE WM, and my video problem went away, and Phoenix ran (all except media -- which I think has to do with gstreamer).

And I was still not able to locate and load those last two libraries. So, apparently they aren't needed for Phoenix itself, but possibly for interacting with the WM.

Of course, YMMV.

[bu99zy]

Just a solution to my problem and in case anyone else gets stick on this, I had to install nvidia-glx-ia32 when running LMDE 64bit with a nVidia card

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apt install nvidia-glx-ia32

"Couldn't find matching GLX visual" should have been an obvious clue, though "window creation failure. SDL" threw me off and was a red herring.