What am I Missing?

[B]

Hello. I've got Exult installed on Fedora Core 1, all current patches, but when I try to start a new game it gives me the following error:

Exult version 1.1.10rc2
Built at: Feb 29 2004 17:04:00
Compile-time options: HAVE_TIMIDITY_BIN, USE_EXULTSTUDIO, HAVE_ZIP_SUPPORT
Compiler: gcc, version: 3.3.2 20031022 (Red Hat Linux 3.3.2-1)

Platform: Linux version 2.4.22-1.2188.nptl
Exult path settings:
Data : /usr/share/exult
Digital music : /usr/share/exult/music

Music player: Internal SDL_mixer timidity synthesiser
Black Gate : found
exult_bg.flx : found
Serpent Isle : found
exult_si.flx : found
Starting a BLACK GATE game
Game path settings:
Static : ./Games/blackgate/static
Gamedat : ./home/bdacosta/Games/blackgate/gamedat
Savegame: ./home/bdacosta/Games/blackgate
Patch : ./Games/blackgate/patch

Serpent Isle : found
exult_si.flx : found
Creating 'gamedat' files.
============================
An exception occured:
Error opening file ./home/bdacosta/Games/blackgate/gamedat/npc.dat
errno: 2
Error Description: No such file or directory
============================

What am I missing?
Also, I'm using the Ultima Collection version of BG and SI.

Thanks for any pointers.

[Ares]

./home/bdacosta/Games/blackgate/gamedat/npc.dat

should there be a dot in the front?

shouldn't it be
/home/bdacosta/Games/blackgate/gamedat/npc.dat?

[Dominus]

It seems like some paths are set wrong in exult.cfg.

Static : ./Games/blackgate/static
Gamedat : ./home/bdacosta/Games/blackgate/gamedat
Savegame: ./home/bdacosta/Games/blackgate
Patch : ./Games/blackgate/patch

Make them all look like this in exult.cfg (and leave the .):


/home/bdacosta/Games/blackgate


/home/bdacosta/Games/blackgate/static


/home/bdacosta/Games/blackgate/gamedat

[B]

Thanks. The dot(.) in the path did it.