Norn-Linux Revival

TetriNET is fun. I have got my girlfriend to play it with me. The Creatures game Docking Station has successfully installed. gtk+.i386 (gtk+ 1.2) needed to be installed. For posterity, here are some instructions.

• Go to Creatures' website
• Download Docking Station Linux client (>)
• make it executable: chmod +x dockingstation.run
• Install gtk+ 1.2 for the sake of imageconvert. (Did you get the following error?)

  Converting images to local format                                               
  ./imageconvert: error while loading shared libraries: libgtk-1.2.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

  If you're on a 64 bit computer, realise that this is a 32-bit programme and will want the 32 bit gtk+ 1.2. On Fedora 8, I installed gtk+.i386, and in Ubuntu I installed libgtk1.2.
• run the installer as root: sudo ./dockingstation.run. If you already tried to run it once and have to run it again, and you see the following:

  File /usr/local/bin/dockingstation is already a symbolic
  link to a different place.  The installer is trying
  to make a link to /usr/local/games/dockingstation/dstation-install.

  Then just remove the old symbolic link: sudo rm /usr/local/bin/dockingstation
• To actually run it, I was advised to type dockingstation nocheck, but the usage of dirname in the dockingstation script fails. That is, you might get the following error:

  dirname: missing operand
  Try `dirname --help' for more information.

  dockingstation is just a symbolic link in /usr/local/bin/ linking to /usr/local/games/dockingstation/dstation-install. I can successfully run /usr/local/games/dockingstation/dstation-install nocheck instead. To save myself the trouble of retyping it, I can replace /usr/local/bin/dockingstation (a symbolic link) with an actual executable file/script including the following:

  #!/bin/sh
  /usr/local/games/dockingstation/dstation-install nocheck

• Yay, now it works. My norns can now party hardily. Hardily indeed.