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SubOrca · 2010-05-28 11:16:46

Hello everyone (and happy Poker-ing),

Just a quick note here to hopefully help out (bearing in mind that this may have just been an issue on my machine - though I suspect not).

FROM: http://wiki.holdingnuts.net/handbook

First paragraph, item 3 Run: Open the directory you extracted the archive to. Start the HoldingNuts client by double-clicking on holdingnuts.exe respectively holdingnuts.sh.

I extracted the tar.bz2 to a folder inside my 'Home' folder called "Extra Apps" (where I have my non-repository stuff like SecondLife (Cool VL Viewer), latest Firefox binary and GoogleEarth binary).

The double click on the holdingnuts.sh failed to initialise, the shell script appeared to be unable to create the .holdingnuts (hidden) folder.

I deleted the new holdingnuts-0.0.5-linux_x86 folder which was created and moved the original .tar.bz2 file from "Extra Apps" directly into my home folder, extracted it and double-clicked the holdingnuts.sh

From the "Home" folder, the script performed as it should and .holdingnuts was created. The game then functioned as normal.

I believe at the moment that this will probably be the case with most (maybe all) old Ubuntu distro unstalls.

Line 3 should probably indicate to Ubuntu users that the .tar.bz2 file should be extracted directly into the home folder - any other location probably causes problems with creation of the .holdingnuts hidden folder.

I hope this information is of some help.

Regards,
Sub.

P.S. If the problem is entirely at my end, then I apologise for wasting your time.

EDIT: sentence structure correction.

Last edited by SubOrca (2010-05-28 11:18:12)

datag · 2010-05-28 21:07:32

Hi SubOrca,

unfortunately I cannot reproduce your problem. I just tested the binary-package on Ubuntu Lucid (and probably on Karmic some time ago). I extract the content to ~/local/ where I usually put my non-repo packages.

When clicking the shell-script from this location (~/local/holdingnuts-0.0.5-linux_x86) everything works fine. The script just sets the dynamic-link library-path (for using provided shared-object files). Then it executes the holdingnuts-binary (+provided commandline arguments).

The holdingnuts-binary itself uses the ~/.holdingnuts directory by default (see code line 231 by using the HOME-environment variable) or by using the directory provided by the "-c" option on command line.

Could you please tell the output of "echo $HOME" from a terminal? And maybe try to execute the shell-script from a terminal, using the command line "./holdingnuts.sh -c ~/.holdingnuts"?

Cheers
Dominik

Edit: The problem seems to be the space-character in your path ("Extra Apps"). When executing the shell-script by clicking, nothing happens. From terminal it runs fine. You may try to get rid of the space in your path as a workaround.

Last edited by datag (2010-05-28 21:12:15)

SubOrca · 2010-05-29 03:41:51

Thanks datag,

I just KNEW those empty spaces of mine would cause problems... lol.

It's always a pain having to \ my paths in terminal... heh

Of course TAB helps with that somewhat.

Thanks for looking into this, hopefully others will find this info of some help anyway.

I just cant get out of the habit of spacing, I dislike underscores <shrug>.

Thanks again and cheers for this great little streamlined poker app.

Regards,
Sub.

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Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic and holdingnuts-0.0.5-linux_x86.tar.bz2

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Re: Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic and holdingnuts-0.0.5-linux_x86.tar.bz2

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Re: Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic and holdingnuts-0.0.5-linux_x86.tar.bz2

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