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	LGeneral Conversion Problem posted by timjohn @ 196.41.124.8 on May 9 2008 2:59 PM
I installed LGeneral from the repositories under Ubuntu Hardy. I then downloaded LGC and PG Data but get the following error when running LGC tim@tim-laptop:~$ sudo lgc-pg -s ~/tmp/pg-data -d /usr/local/share/games/lgeneral [sudo] password for tim: LGeneral Converter for Panzer General (DOS version) v0.32 Copyright 2002 Michael Speck Released under GNU GPL --- Settings: Source: /home/tim/tmp/pg-data Destination: /usr/local/share/games/lgeneral Use Individual Palettes Converting: nation database... /usr/local/share/games/lgeneral/nations/pg.ndb: access denied Can anyone please help?
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Re: LGeneral Conversion Problem posted by Thunor @ 91.125.216.169 on May 11 2008 9:02 PM Extract to ~/tmp/pg-data-converted and then copy across the contents of this folder to /usr/local/share/games/lgeneral as root.   [Reply]   Re: LGeneral Conversion Problem posted by timjohn @ 196.41.124.8 on May 12 2008 2:14 PM   Thanks for the response, but I'm still getting the same error Settings: Source: ~./lgames/pg-data Destination: /home/tim/tmp/pg-data-converted Use Individual Palettes Converting: nation database... /home/tim/tmp/pg-data-converted/nations/pg.ndb: access denied Any other suggestion? Thanks in advance   [Reply]   Re: LGeneral Conversion Problem posted by Thunor @ 91.125.216.169 on May 12 2008 9:30 PM Did anything get created in /home/tim/tmp/pg-data-converted?   [Reply]   Re: LGeneral Conversion Problem posted by timjohn @ 196.41.124.8 on May 12 2008 9:43 PM   Just the first file, but that led me to the solution... some of the files in pg-data are not capitalized but are obviously addressed in the converter in capitals. I just renamed each file as I got each error and am now playing in 1024 x 768 quite happily. It's been ages since I played PG as I moved on to each new development (PGII, PacGen, PG III & PG 3D) so its fun to go back to the less attractive interface. I don't seem to have any Campaigns, but the Scenario List seems complete. Thanks anyway for your concern and replies. Cheers   [Reply]   Re: LGeneral Conversion Problem posted by Thunor @ 91.125.216.169 on May 13 2008 12:01 AM Interesting. The contents of my pg-data.tar.gz are all lowercase apart from README. You should get one campaign by clicking Campaign and selecting PG in the left column. You then get World War II - Nazi Germany bla bla bla...   [Reply]   Re: LGeneral Conversion Problem posted by timjohn @ 196.41.124.8 on May 13 2008 11:23 AM   Ja... no PG directory in the campaign menu (nothing in the Campaign menu) just PG dir in the Scenario Menu. Weird. Also, all files in pg-data were lowercase. It was the converter that was looking for uppercase files eg "Could not find FLAGS.SHP" when flags.shp was in the Data folder.   [Reply]   Re: LGeneral Conversion Problem posted by Thunor @ 91.125.76.251 on May 14 2008 12:04 PM Get the latest version lgeneral-1.2beta-13.tar.gz. You're using v1.1 I think.   [Reply]   Re: LGeneral Conversion Problem posted by timjohn @ 196.41.124.8 on May 17 2008 9:46 AM   I'll reinstall it, but I did download it from this site. The problem may be that I initially installed LGeneral from the repos and things amy have got mixed up with that installation. I'll uninstall through Synaptic and then start again. On another note, WineHQ reports full success with PGII running in Wine. ALthough it loads fine and the initial menu looks good, I cannot get it to run. Any experience/joy with this approach?   [Reply]   Re: LGeneral Conversion Problem posted by Thunor @ 91.125.5.93 on May 19 2008 2:13 PM Sorry, haven't played PGII.   [Reply]

	LGeneral posted by Anonymous @ 75.26.44.225 on Mar 17 2008 2:05 AM
What is the difference between this game and Panzer General? Other than a few interface differences, it seems like the exact same game...
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	install issues posted by Anonymous @ 128.150.73.157 on Oct 10 2007 9:04 PM
Thanks for porting/modifying this game. One question however, I seem to need pg.bmp: LGeneral Converter for Panzer General (DOS version) v1.2beta-13 Copyright 2002-2005 Michael Speck Released under GNU GPL --- Settings: Source: /usr/local/lgeneral-1.2beta-13/pg-data Destination: /usr/local/share/games/lgeneral Use Individual Palettes Converting: nation database... nation flag graphics... /usr/local/share/games/lgeneral/gfx/flags/pg.bmp: Couldn't open /usr/local/share/games/lgeneral/gfx/flags/pg.bmp I did a search, and it's not on my system. Reinstall (make clean, make, make install) didn't help. Any thoughts anyone?
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Re: install issues posted by Thunor @ 91.125.153.220 on Oct 10 2007 10:07 PM > Source: /usr/local/lgeneral-1.2beta-13/pg-data > Destination: /usr/local/share/games/lgeneral > /usr/local/share/games/lgeneral/gfx/flags/pg.bmp: Couldn't open gfx/flags/pg.bmp and gfx/units/pg.bmp found on my installation. These are created by the converter from the original data. I understand then that given the above paths, this is how you invoked the converter: lgc-pg -s /usr/local/lgeneral-1.2beta-13/pg-data -d /usr/local/share/games/lgeneral Are you stating that the message "/usr/local/share/games/lgeneral/gfx/flags/pg.bmp: Couldn't open" came from the converter? If so you were executing the converter as root right, because if not it won't be able to write to the destination folder.   [Reply]   Re: install issues posted by Anonymous @ 128.150.73.157 on Oct 11 2007 8:32 PM   ah, that was the issue. The game seems to work fine now...silly me. Thanks for the help.   [Reply]

	Can't start Campaign posted by uncle fester @ 61.88.115.254 on Oct 10 2007 4:14 AM
I've got the same problem that another user posted about in August. I hit the right mouse to bring up the menu, select new campaign, hit Poland then click the green tick for Ok. For a fraction of a second a beige-coloured dialog appears, but then its gone and I'm back to looking at Europe with nothing happening. I'm running the game under Windoze btw (yes I know, its the _linux_ game tome etc).
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Re: Can't start Campaign posted by Thunor @ 91.125.153.220 on Oct 10 2007 10:22 PM Right clicking does toggle the visibility of the menu but the menu should already be displayed. If you select Campaign, then you select PG (not Poland) and it plays the whole game from the start (Poland). If you select Scenario then you can select Poland or whatever part of the Campaign you want to play. Did you select Campaign or Scenario? The game dumps text to the console; run it in a DOS window via the command prompt and see what it says.   [Reply]   Re: Can't start Campaign posted by uncle fester @ 61.88.115.254 on Oct 11 2007 12:27 AM   Ok, running it from a cmd box. First it comes up with the splash image. Nothing happens until I click the mouse, and then a map of europe appears. No menu is visible. Nothing in the cmd box. I right click, and up pops the menu with 6 icons. Icon 4 is a "C", and on mouse-over a textbox appears at the top of the screen saying "Load Campaign". I click on this, and I'm offered a choice of Poland and ... that's it. Poland. Selecting this brings up the description (German invasion of Poland). Clicking on the green tick brings up the beige window for a split second then I'm back to the map. Still nothing in the cmd box. Ok, so instead I'm trying S for Scenario - and there I see "pg". This brings up a whole swag of choices (none of which is Poland btw). I choose, say, Norway, and click ok. The screen turns black, text scrolls, then I'm looking at oceans, islands and u-boats. Hence, scenarios seem to work. Still nothing in the cmd box though. I hope that helps :)   [Reply]   Re: Can't start Campaign posted by Thunor @ 91.125.153.220 on Oct 11 2007 6:46 PM I was intrigued so I booted up into WinXP and tried both versions on the LGeneral site: LGeneral-1.1.zip and lgeneral-1.1-win32.exe. Both behaved the exact same way as you described. The beige box can be prevented from disappearing if you are quick with the mouse click. It says rather oddly "Go for Lodz blablabla" :) There's obviously something wrong with the win version. Seeing as this is the Linux Game Tome I recommend using the Linux version that works :)   [Reply]

	Top Game posted by Thunor @ 91.125.153.220 on Oct 9 2007 10:52 PM
Even though Lebensraum into Poland didn't do the NSDAP any good in the long run, as a game it's fun.
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Now and Then posted by Thunor @ 91.125.153.220 on Oct 10 2007 12:24 AM Ironically, the NSDAP expands into Eastern Europe with a significant amount of effort, yet Eastern Europe expands into England with no effort at all. I'm talking about the game.   [Reply]

	LGeneral posted by triple_entendre @ 66.68.113.109 on Sep 6 2007 1:27 PM
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	LGeneral posted by Anonymous @ 207.112.95.229 on Aug 20 2007 6:29 AM
Nice to see, certainly! Yeah, the user interface needs work. I can't seem to start a campaign. Or rather, I start the Poland campaign, get the 'Conquer Lodz and blablabla' screen, and then I'm back to wandering about Europe with my cursor. No click anywhere seems to do anything differently than before I 'started' the campaign.
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Re: LGeneral posted by Anonymous @ 207.112.95.229 on Aug 20 2007 7:17 AM   Also: is there a way to give your units replacements, or buy new ones?   [Reply]   Re: LGeneral posted by Anonymous @ 91.89.176.167 on Aug 27 2007 8:01 PM   First thing sounds like a bug, surely the campaign should start... replacement is only available for a few scenarios (actually all should have but no time to work this through...) and units cannot be purchased   [Reply]

	Congrats on a great port and a few bugs posted by Anonymous @ 80.126.38.197 on Oct 20 2006 6:47 AM
First of all thanks for making this port at all, I love this fast and furious gameplay. On a serious note.. I hope you'll get the undo option right, I'd love to see a XML solution to it (lock the undoable undo's in a list, hint!). When blasting something landbased to hell using my battleships, the game explodes into memery noise lane.. It just disappears. Using LGenerals on winXP sp2, haven't tested it on Linux (hey, I use that for more serious things)
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	won't run posted by Anonymous @ 69.136.192.162 on Aug 13 2006 7:54 PM
I have freespireand i downloaded panzer lgeneral, and it will not run!!
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	Clunky UI posted by Anonymous @ 62.163.78.128 on Aug 6 2006 5:37 AM
The user interface is a bit clunky. In the original, you could undo your move (as long as nothing important happened), but here, if you accidentally click wrong, you're out of luck. Also, is it possible to enlarge the screen, so I don't have to scroll all over the place?
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Re: Clunky UI posted by Anonymous @ 62.163.78.128 on Aug 6 2006 7:31 AM   Interface takes a while to figure out. To undo a move, click on the unit you just moved, and you get a menu from which you can undo the move, refuel, and that sort of stuff. However, at the end of the first scenario of a new campaign, the game crashes with: *** glibc detected *** double free or corruption (fasttop): 0x086e3a50 *** Aborted   [Reply]