OHOL needs WINE to work on Linux?

fragilityh14 · 2019-01-21 04:22:14

hi guys,

I've been gone since about June, but was an avid player for a good period of time. OHOL worked just fine without doing anything special for me on Opensuse 42.3

i was taking a break from playing it when i updated to Opensuse 15 [yes, those version numbers are correct] and it wouldn't do anything when i clicked on it.

i decided to try to run it with WINE, which i realized i hadn't had a cause to re-install on my computer. it opened in wine but i didn't play test it. I decided to click on the linux file again, for no good reason, and it works now, since WINE is installed on my computer.

I have no answers for why this is, it doesn't make sense to me, but i wanted this to be searchable cause i have not found that advice searching for linux help on the OHOL forums.

[note: i rewrote this after accidentally finding the solution.]

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antking:]# · 2019-01-21 06:22:03

no I don't think that pouring wine on you computer would do it much good.

lionon · 2019-01-21 06:50:43

No need for WINE, you can compile OHOL as a native Linux application.

PS: SUSE, really? I thought their times are over by at least a decade.

karltown_veteran · 2019-01-21 16:40:41

antking:]# wrote:

no I don't think that pouring wine on you computer would do it much good.

Have you tried BEER?

Crumpaloo · 2019-01-21 17:20:32

cars > playable applications

fragilityh14 · 2019-01-21 20:12:56

lionon wrote:

No need for WINE, you can compile OHOL as a native Linux application.
PS: SUSE, really? I thought their times are over by at least a decade.

Well that's the weird thing, once WINE is installed you don't have to use WINE to run it, the main linux tar download just works once it's extracted. Just click OneLifeApp. I couldn't get it to compile, it said it couldn't find anything when I ran the pull and build like the instructions said.

Also, the Suse project remains really active, it combined with Suse enterprise a couple of years ago.

lionon · 2019-01-21 20:43:43

You probably just installed some other lib-dev dependency you were missing without. Really WINE has nothing to do with it.

Maybe you actually can run the windows binary with WINE, but it really isn't necessary.

karltown_veteran · 2019-01-23 02:57:52

lionon wrote:

Really WINE has nothing to do with it.

Exactly. Your computer can run just as well on a tall glass of BEER.

fragilityh14 · 2019-01-23 03:43:36

lionon wrote:

You probably just installed some other lib-dev dependency you were missing without. Really WINE has nothing to do with it.
Maybe you actually can run the windows binary with WINE, but it really isn't necessary.

You so for a future person who may search this topic, it's possible they can just install WINE then it will work without having to do anything else, pretty convenient. The only reason it wasn't installed on my computer was that I hadn't happened to have needed it yet.

lionon · 2019-01-24 07:12:09

fragilityh14 wrote:

You so for a future person who may search this topic, it's possible they can just install WINE then it will work without having to do anything else, pretty convenient. The only reason it wasn't installed on my computer was that I hadn't happened to have needed it yet.

It still isn't good advice. If it works for you cool, but it really is the wrong cause and effect to draw for this. First that random dependency solving maybe on your distro only, second your installing unneeded stuff. If you want to help future persons, better figure out on a naked install, what lib-devs you actually need to install.

PS: For example test beyond conformation bias, deinstall WINE (without cleaning up auto dependencies) and I predict, it will still work.

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fragilityh14 · 2019-01-24 18:09:29

there's not a lot of downsides to having WINE installed on your computer, so there is no harm in it being an easy fix if it makes it just work.

And since clicking the file did literally nothing, running it in terminal did nothing, I have no idea how I would find what dependency that is.

You're right though, it still works after uninstalling WINE, however since it didn't work previously, and there are no obvious dependencies which install with WINE which might matter, I think the advice still stands that if the game won't open on Linux to try installing WINE and seeing if it works. Which once again, has pretty much no chance of causing other problems, so what's the harm?

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GreatShawn · 2019-01-24 18:16:39

karltown_veteran wrote:

antking:]# wrote:
no I don't think that pouring wine on you computer would do it much good.
Have you tried BEER?

Try dumping some WORT or WHISKEY to get it pumped up.

lionon · 2019-01-24 19:07:28

If you would have typed "ldd -r ./OneLifeApp" it would have told you which library is missing... which got installed along with WINE when you installed that one.

I like to figure out actually cause and effects instead of "dunno why magic". I already explained why it is detrimental as advice. Again if it works for you fine, it's still not good advice.

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OHOL needs WINE to work on Linux?

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