[Coco] Problems Installing OVCC.

coco at jechar.ca coco at jechar.ca
Sun Feb 26 12:32:18 EST 2023


On 2023-02-20 19:25, qbancoffee wrote:
> Hi Charlie,
> 
> It sounds like you got OVCC to compile so  all you have to do now is
> start OVCC in a directory that contains the "coco3.rom" file and it
> should work.
> 
> I just tested this on my computer and OVCC behaves just as you
> described. If I start in a directory that contains the "coco3.rom"
> file, everything works.
> 
> On 2/20/23 8:42 PM, coco at jechar.ca wrote:
>> 
>> Maybe I have it now the window starts to come up and then I get the
>> message
>> 
>> Missing file coco3.rom
>> 
>> I do have this file so I assume I am putting it on the wrong 
>> directory.
>> Where do I put it ????
>> 
>> 
>> On 2023-02-11 22:57, qbancoffee via Coco wrote:
>>> Hi Charlie I'm away from home at the moment so I can't confirm this
>>> but here is what I remember...
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> I was able to compile and install agar on ubuntu 18.04.
>>> 
>>> OVCC runs on my machine and I've since updated to 22.04
>>> 
>>> did you try "sudo apt install libjpeg62-turbo" or some version of it?
>>> 
>>> 
>>> I don't remember the actual number after libjpeg so you would have to
>>> tab complete to see what's available.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> type
>>> 
>>> 
>>> "sudo apt install libjpeg" <--- don't hit enter yet.
>>> 
>>> and hit tab a couple of times and it will autocomplete what's 
>>> available for you.
>>> It should anyways......
>>> 
>>> 
>>> For Fedora I imagine you tried something like the following?
>>> 
>>> "dnf install libsndfile"
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Pedro
>>> 
>>> On 2/12/23 2:36 AM, coco--- via Coco wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> Trying to install OVCC on Fedora 36
>>>> 
>>>> AGAR worked perfectly but attempts to install sndfile and 
>>>> libsndfile1 failed.
>>>> 
>>>> Thought perhaps I could get away without them so I tryed runing OVCC 
>>>> but
>>>> got the following error.
>>>> 
>>>> ./ovcc: error while loading shared libraries: libjpeg.so.8: cannot 
>>>> open shared object file: No such file or directory
>>>> 
>>>> Anyone have any Ideas I have given up on Ubuntu as I cannot get AGAR 
>>>> to work and I understand that to be the most important dependency.
>>>> 
>>>> I wish the developers would create a flatpack or appimage version as 
>>>> that
>>>> would just work on everything linux and not need updateing.
>>>> 
>>>> Charlie.
>>>> 
Thanks that worked.


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