Smokin Guns - a new "old western" FPS

[electrogeist]

So I wanted to give Smokin Guns a try. It was just released as a stand alone game, after starting life as a Quake3 mod called Western Quake. Smokin Guns is set in the Wild West and offers unique gametypes such as Bank Robbery.

Installation was supposed to be fairly straightforward:

1) Download for FREE from http://www.smokin-guns.net/ Get the .zip archive not the .exe. The .zip contains both the ms windows .exe and the linux binary. (340MB)

2) Unzip it. You can double click the .zip and drag the "Smokin' Guns" directory to your home directory.

3) Rename the directory you just unzipped from "Smokin' Guns" to "SmokinGuns" as the engine will always look for that directory as installed game path.

4) Set execute permission for "smokinguns.x86". You can right click on the file in Nautilus, select Properties, go to Permissions tab, check box for "Allow executing file as program". Alternatively "chmod +x smokinguns.x86" on the command line does the same thing.


It was supposed be as simple as that to be able to run ~/SmokinGuns/smokinguns.x86

And it probably is that simple for some people with a 32-bit distro. However, on this box I have Ubuntu 8.04 64-bit, and a couple more steps were needed...

j@blackcreek:~/SmokinGuns$ ./smokinguns.x86
./smokinguns.x86: error while loading shared libraries: libXxf86dga.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

Hmmm... it looks like I have libXxf86dga.so.1 right?

j@blackcreek:~/SmokinGuns$ locate libXxf
/usr/lib/libXxf86dga.so.1
/usr/lib/libXxf86dga.so.1.0.0
/usr/lib/libXxf86misc.so.1
/usr/lib/libXxf86misc.so.1.1.0
/usr/lib/libXxf86vm.so.1
/usr/lib/libXxf86vm.so.1.0.0
/usr/lib32/libXxf86vm.so.1
/usr/lib32/libXxf86vm.so.1.0.0

Oh, there's not a 32-bit libXxf86dga.so.1 in /usr/lib32/

At this point I was afraid I might end up in a 32-bit dependancy hell. Ah, a good time to try out Cappy's getlibs script!
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=474790

j@blackcreek:~/SmokinGuns$ getlibs smokinguns.x86 
libXxf86dga.so.1: libxxf86dga1
The following i386 packages will be installed:
libxxf86dga1
Continue [Y/n]? y
Downloading ...
Installing libraries ...
[sudo] password

Ok so there was only the one dependancy... Lets try to run the game again!

j@blackcreek:~/SmokinGuns$ ./smokinguns.x86 
<<<< snip >>>>
...loading opengl32: QGL_Init: Can't load opengl32 from /etc/ld.so.conf: opengl32: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
failed
...loading libGL.so: QGL_Init: Can't load libGL.so from /etc/ld.so.conf: libGL.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
failed
----- CL_Shutdown -----
RE_Shutdown( 1 )
-----------------------
----- CL_Shutdown -----
-----------------------
Sys_Error: GLimp_Init() - could not load OpenGL subsystem

Apparantly everything is there except for a needed symlink. Smokin Guns is looking for libGL.so not libGL.so.1 I created a symlink for the 64-bit one in /usr/lib too, but just the first line would probably suffice.

$ sudo ln -s /usr/lib32/libGL.so.1 /usr/lib32/libGL.so
$ sudo ln -s /usr/lib/libGL.so.1 /usr/lib/libGL.so

Finally it works!

j@blackcreek:~/SmokinGuns$ ./smokinguns.x86

Too bad there's only bots at 3:00am... I'm hoping there's human players during normal hours. (hopefully more players than World of Padman, which is a *really* cool game, but every time I've tried WOP there are never any human players. And I've tried WOP periodically for like 4 years now *sigh*)

[nawitus]

I had a problem with libopenal.so.0,I only got libopenal.so.1.I simply copied the file and it works sofar (not sure if this is the correct way though). getlibs didn't work so I just did this:

sudo cp /usr/lib/libopenal.so.1 /usr/lib/libopenal.sp.0

[alienseer23]

Is there a better way to go about this?

[electrogeist]

I had a problem with libopenal.so.0,I only got libopenal.so.1.I simply copied the file and it works sofar (not sure if this is the correct way though). getlibs didn't work so I just did this:

sudo cp /usr/lib/libopenal.so.1 /usr/lib/libopenal.sp.0

Better to create a symbolic link, so that libopenal.so.0 points to libopenal.so.1, and you won't be using an old libopenal.so.0 when libopenal.so.1 gets updated:

sudo ln -s /usr/lib/libopenal.so.1 /usr/lib/libopenal.so.0

[ales]

Hello,

here is complete guide how to do it. Worked for me fine on 8.10.

http://nousessence.com/node/1257


Bye.

Ales

[NewJack]

I love westerns. I'll give this a go later on tonight.

Thanks for the heads up!

[70plymouth]

I just got it to work but no one is online

[NewJack]

Hello,

here is complete guide how to do it. Worked for me fine on 8.10.

http://nousessence.com/node/1257


Bye.

Ales

Thanks for the link Ales. Worked like a charm for me on Intrepid. Cool game. Hopefully word of mouth gets more people playing. I'd love to see full servers going.

[rv65]

./smokinguns.x86: error while loading shared libraries: libopenal.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

No matter how many times it will still do this. Using Intrepid amd64 with OSS 4.1-1051.

[Melcar]

Worked perfectly for me without the need of any of this. Simply extracted the .zip, made the smokinguns.x86 executable, and ran it. Hardy 64bit. Of course, I have several 32bit games running already so maybe I had the fixed dependencies and did not notice it. I did have to edit the .cfg file to turn off openal though, so as to fix annoying popping from my speakers (happens to me on almost all Quake based games).