[ SOLVED ] Planet Editor crashes immediately on Ubuntu 13.4

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  1. archgnulinux

    archgnulinux New Member

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    I'm using 64-bit Ubuntu 13.4. I have a quad-core AMD processor, 4GB of RAM, and a Galaxy GeForce GTX 650 Ti graphics card.

    Whenever I open the planet editor and press the "Build" button the game closes instantly, regardless of what I set the radius or other settings to.

    The game works fine otherwise.
    Last edited: July 17, 2013
  2. DeathByDenim

    DeathByDenim Post Master General

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    Re: Planet Editor crashes immediately on Ubuntu 13.4

    I had the same problem. There's also a bug report about it here: http://pa.lennardf1989.com/Tracker/inde ... sk_id=1762

    There's a workaround though:
    Open your terminal and go to the directory media/pa/terrain inside the PA installation directory and type
    Code:
    ln -s earth.json EARTH.json
    ln -s lava.json LAVA.json
    ln -s metal.json METAL.json
    ln -s moon.json MOON.json
    ln -s tropical.json TROPICAL.json
  3. archgnulinux

    archgnulinux New Member

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    Re: Planet Editor crashes immediately on Ubuntu 13.4

    Thanks! It works now!
  4. DeathByDenim

    DeathByDenim Post Master General

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    Re: [ SOLVED ] Planet Editor crashes immediately on Ubuntu

    There's actually a more elegant fix by shellacofna on the bug tracker. See FS#1747.
    But both solutions work of course.
  5. MCXplode

    MCXplode Active Member

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    Re: [ SOLVED ] Planet Editor crashes immediately on Ubuntu

    Damn it generates planets a hell of a lot faster on the linux box than Win7.
    Created a script for the linking to run again for upgrade installs,but hopefully Uber will fix the uppercase name glitch on the json files.
    Sweet job on the PA editor :mrgreen:
    Hopefully maybe some basic CAD tools drawing brushes will be implented in future versions

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