Half life, and counter-strike

[p3ps1]

Well i need to know if anyone happens to know how to install half-life off the disk. should i use wine.. or download and compile winex?

Thanks in advance

p3ps1

[YECoyote]

I used Wine, but when the dialog to prompt for my CD-Key, it wouldn't accept any keystrokes. The mouse works tho. I still can't get past it.

I like to know how to get it working as well. DoD is the only game that kept me using PC.

[Fryguy8]

do a search for lhl linux. some nice instructions. Use winex instead of wine.

[bwkaz]

http://lhl.linuxgames.com

;)

That's a pretty nice tutorial (at least, for me it was nice) for Half-Life in Linux.

[p3ps1]

when trying after compiling the thing from cvs. i get this error:

[thomas@localhost cdrom]$ wine setup.exe
wine: error while loading shared libraries: libntdll.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

Any help?

p3ps1

[bwkaz]

What did you use as a --prefix to WineX's configure script? Anything?

If you didn't use anything, then make sure that /usr/local/lib is in your /etc/ld.so.conf file, and run /sbin/ldconfig as root.

If you specified a --prefix, then make sure <prefix>/lib is listed in /etc/ld.so.conf, and run /sbin/ldconfig as root.

[p3ps1]

Originally posted by bwkaz
What did you use as a --prefix to WineX's configure script? Anything?

i used --enable-opengl or whatever it was in the walkthough thing.
Origninally posted by bwkaz
If you didn't use anything, then make sure that /usr/local/lib is in your /etc/ld.so.conf file, and run /sbin/ldconfig as root.

If you specified a --prefix, then make sure <prefix>/lib is listed in /etc/ld.so.conf, and run /sbin/ldconfig as root.


Engilsh? please? i'm a total noob to linux(not computering just linux) and not quite sure i got that.. if you could make it any simpler, that would be great, i'll keep trying different things, and see if i can understand your post =)

p3ps1

edit: btw i tryed it with wine, just wine, gonna try it with winex, if i can figure out where it downloaded to(friend was messing with comp well i was gone(something about a power outage))

[bwkaz]

OK, --enable-opengl isn't a --prefix, so go with /usr/local (that's the default prefix).

Open up /etc/ld.so.conf in an editor and add /usr/local/lib to it (put it on a line by itself, at the end of the file). Then, as root, run /sbin/ldconfig. The first step (adding the path to ld.so.conf) tells the dynamic linker to look in other directories for .so files, and the second (ldconfig) updates the dynamic linker's cache of which .so files are available.

The problem is that when you start up Wine, it tries to link to libntdll.so, which it put in /usr/local/lib. But according to the dynamic linker cache, no libntdll.so file exists -- because the linker isn't configured to look in /usr/local/lib by default, for some reason.

[redbullmonsta]

Half-Life and Counter-Strike work very well under Linux. i use wine as it works with no problems.

If you need to enter your cd-key and cant do it when entering the game just go into your wine directory and edit the registry file, there is a "key" field in the halflife section just unter your key (without the -'s)

to start CS you will need to specify an ip address to connect to, or it just says 'you need to install custom game ctrike'
use "hl.exe -game -cstrike +connect xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:xxxxx at the end of your command line

[brandon_yap]

hi...
what is wine
Kindly reply ASAP...
Thanks!!!

[bwkaz]

Wine Is Not an Emulator (see the "recursive acronym" entry in the Jargon File)

www.winehq.org

[brandon_yap]

thanks for the reply!!!

[tijn_sol]

does anyone know how the fill in the key ??
i wont work the normal way