Scummvm 0.11.0 in Debian (sid)

imperia · Post by **imperia** » Fri Jan 18, 2008 6:26 am

Hello,

0.11.0 should be directly apt-get'able from Debian unstable (sid).

Can somebody confirm this? I am unable to find Scummvm in sid repo.

fingolfin · Post by **fingolfin** » Fri Jan 18, 2008 10:14 am

This is a mistake on the website, I'll fix it.

imperia · Post by **imperia** » Sat Jan 19, 2008 7:12 am

thanks for your answer.

can you tell me if its normal SCUMMVM 0.11.0 to require libFLAC7 when 0.10.2 uses libFLAC8? it didn't wanted to install. I had to force it and then I created symbolic link - libFLAC.so.7 to the libFLAC.so.8 to make it run.

Post by **eriktorbjorn** » Sat Jan 19, 2008 10:43 am

imperia wrote:thanks for your answer.

can you tell me if its normal SCUMMVM 0.11.0 to require libFLAC7 when 0.10.2 uses libFLAC8? it didn't wanted to install. I had to force it and then I created symbolic link - libFLAC.so.7 to the libFLAC.so.8 to make it run.

From what I understand, a dependency on libflac8 means it was compiled against FLAC 1.1.4 or later. (The changelog for the Debian packages says that "Because of the API changes ... there has been another soname bump. libflac7 -> libflac8".) ScummVM can be compiled against earlier versions of FLAC (or without FLAC support at all, for that matter), though judging by comments in the source code there are plans to eventually drop support for versions before FLAC 1.1.3.

I don't know whether or not it's safe to link libFLAC.so.8 to libFLAC.so.7 like you did, since I don't know what changed between the two versions. Though as long as you don't actually use the FLAC portions of the code...

imperia · Post by **imperia** » Sat Jan 19, 2008 1:43 pm

then the default 0.10.2 package is coming without FLAC support at all or with libFLAC8, because I didn't remember having any problems of that kind while installing it.

side note: i just noticed indy3-vga is not starting in 0.11 - strange.

Post by **eriktorbjorn** » Sun Jan 20, 2008 12:06 am

imperia wrote: side note: i just noticed indy3-vga is not starting in 0.11 - strange.

Odd. It does for me. Do you get any error message at all?

imperia · Post by **imperia** » Sun Jan 20, 2008 12:41 am

no. just blank screen. later i will be reverting back to scummvm 0.10.2 because 0.11 gives me too much troubles with dependencies in debian. i will see if indy3 is working.

the actual error is:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
scummvm: Depends: libflac7 but it is not installable

very annoying.

imperia · Post by **imperia** » Sun Jan 20, 2008 6:21 am

i just reinstalled scummvm 0.10.0 from testing repo and i copied indy3-vga again from my windows box (where indy3-vga works) and i can confirm indy3-vga is not working. only the titlebar changes its name to "Indiana Jones and Last Crusade...." and the screen remains black. I've removed .scummvmrc and .scummvm dirs too. i've completed indy4 and bass few days ago on the same machine.