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Hi there,

I try to play Ultima7. I have installed the svn version on arch linux and have first run exult to generate a cfg and the edited the paths. But exult cannot see them and throws an error and ends then.

It seems to ignore the ~/.exult/cfg. I started exult from console and it did not even search there.

Why o why?

That should be ~/.exult.cfg

-Willem Jan

And if that was a spelling mistake, please give us your exult.cfg entries and the actual path to the games

Whoops, it is a typo. Of course it is ~/exult.cfg

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/home/i/.exult/blackgate/




/home/i/.exult/serpentisle/



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In the meantime i have just copied it over to /usr/share/exult and that works (exult hangs itself up, which is another topic)

I can of course post the full exult.cfg, but the output from terminal says:

Exult version 1.5.0svn
Built at: Mar 19 2013 22:14:44
Compile-time options: USE_TIMIDITY_MIDI, USE_FMOPL_MIDI, USE_ALSA_MIDI, HAVE_ZIP_SUPPORT
Compiler: gcc, version: 4.7.2

Platform: Linux version 3.8.3-2-ARCH
Exult path settings:
Data : /usr/share/exult
Digital music : /usr/share/exult/music

Looking for 'blackgate' at '/usr/share/exult/blackgate'... found game with identity 'FORGE'
Looking for 'forgeofvirtue' at '/usr/share/exult/forgeofvirtue'... but it wasn't there.
Looking for 'serpentisle' at '/usr/share/exult/serpentisle'... found game with identity 'SILVER SEED'
Looking for 'silverseed' at '/usr/share/exult/silverseed'... but it wasn't there
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I suppose it does not even look at ~/exult.cfg?

No, it never looks at ~/exult.cfg on linux.
As Wjp wrote, the cfg is at ~/.exult.cfg
Mind the ".", meaning it is a hidden file.
http://exult.info/docs.php#exult_config_location

This wouldn't be a problem if you used this ppa:
https://code.launchpad.net/~exult-team/ ... xult-daily

(if you're in ubuntu, not sure how it works in debian, mint or whatever)

I seem to be a bit distracted. It is and always was .exult.cfg. Sorry for the hassle.

Your cfg snippet also looks broken. is not an element of ...

@Paulo, why wouldn't this be a problem with your ppa? And please stop spamming it again and again.

I'm not a linux user but so far I was under the impression that home is an environment variable and not a path. Does it work if you enter
cd /home/i/.exult
in terminal or bash or whatever?

Edit: At least on OS X 'cd /home' gives me a different result than 'cd $HOME'

@DominusMobile1, that interesting, because exult was preinstalled with that cfg and sets it up in case i remove it automatically. I will rewrite a cfg manually and place it there write-protected and look what happens.

I will report back then. Thank you for your fast replies, btw.

I have more or less solved the problem. I have copied the sample exult.cfg and edited all entries and removed the comments. Exult now uses those paths, but it can not start.

I can post the whole cfg if you like.

Since this is another problem, i would need help with, i would like to open a new thread.

Thank you all for your help. It is done. I had to activate digital music, since i did not go through the hassle to configure mide through timidity and the likes. It works.

I do not know for sure, what went wrong in the first place. I think i was just too sleepy, when i changed paths.

Sorry to bother you, since it was all my fault. Thanks again.

because exult was preinstalled with that cfg

preinstalled? This cannot be good...

Also don't set exult.cfg to be write protected. setting things in game will not work then...

@ Dominus everything is fine now. I think i messed the cfg up. Saw and just copied the path stuff there, because i thought it belonged here. But i did not see the other section later on, where the path is set for real. It is my fault, really.