Hi Mike, Unfortunately, no. The purpose of creating an official Debian package for Debian, Ubuntu, and Vinux distributions is so it will properly install the files where they go, add icons to your desktop and panel menus,and detect missing dependencies. There are graphical ways to install a deb package from within Gnome itself, but typically those aren't as accessible as using the terminal. So the way you would install mota is to open up gnome-terminal and cd to your Downloads directory. Then, you would type a command like this sudo dpkg -i mota-0.14.0-i386.deb and it would try to install it. However, if you were missing the SFML libraries it depends on you would get an error like this. "Error: libsfml-audio is required by mota-0.14.0 Error: libsfml-graphics is required by mota-0.14.0 Error: libsfml-network is required by mota-0.14.0 Error: libsfml-system is required by mota-0.14.0 Error: libsfml-window is required by mota-0.14.0 Please, use apt-get to install these packages." However, one issue I'm dealing with here is that Ubuntu andVinux seam to be missing these packages in the Ubuntu package repositories. That means you either have to add Debians package repositories to apt-get or I can roll my own packages. The third alternative, perhaps the best one, is simply skip a Debian package altogether and use a custom installer to install everything including libsfml automatically.
Cheers! On 9/27/10, Mike Reiser <[email protected]> wrote: > So Tom, > > Does this mean that with a .deb file we can enter on it like we do a > .exe file and it will install? > > Mike --- Gamers mailing list __ [email protected] If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to [email protected]. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to [email protected].
