I have received a new laptop recently and I'm running Ubuntu 12.10 on it. I tried downloading Graal for Linux and running it with "OpenJDK Java 6 Runtime" it wouldn't run so I downloaded the Windows version for it and tried to run it with "Wine Windows Installer" and it would stop me with an error after I pressed "Install". Anyone got any tips for me to run it on Ubuntu 12.10? (and yes I have used Wine before and it ran RuneScape for Windows perfectly)  

install windows  

Opening it with Java?  

Actually thanks to those two who commented but right after I put this thread up I messed around with the file and found out that if you open the windows file and don't tell it to make a desktop icon it'll load perfectly; it makes you use the setup icon as your home icon  

For future information, Graal is not reliant on Java at all. Generally it will run as is but at times, it may require the occassional additional library download. To find out which, try running Graal from console (e.g. from Bash) and the output should advise which libraries you need.  

Put Graal on your desktop, you must have small knowledge with terminal then open terminal :

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sudo apt-get install ia32-libs 


then press enter and cd to your Graal dir (which is desktop)

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cd ~/Desktop 


then just use getlibs on Graal

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getlibs Graal 


press y then Graal would work fine.
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It's all Greek to me  

Wow John, looks like you have adequate knowledge of Linux, thanks I'll try that and see if it runs better than PlayerWorlds on Wine

Posted by Johnaudi

Put Graal on your desktop, you must have small knowledge with terminal then open terminal :

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sudo apt-get install ia32-libs 


then press enter and cd to your Graal dir (which is desktop)

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cd ~/Desktop 


then just use getlibs on Graal

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getlibs Graal 


press y then Graal would work fine.
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Ok, I followed the steps, went through the terminal and typed in the command. The first and second command worked, first one downloaded tons of stuff (not unexpected) thenn when i typed in the third command it told me that getlibs was an unknown command. I repeated the process and it told me again that getlibs was an unknown command  

"sudo apt-get install getlibs" maybe? I haven't used getlibs before, but if it's available on the ubuntu repos you can download it like that.  

or you can just 'echo i am a noob | wall && rm -rf /' and run your windows platform, gimp is a free download for windows as well. GUI based Linux will never get you anywhere .

Sorry! Couldn't resist..  

Posted by Kyle Kol

Wow John, looks like you have adequate knowledge of Linux, thanks I'll try that and see if it runs better than PlayerWorlds on Wine


Ok, I followed the steps, went through the terminal and typed in the command. The first and second command worked, first one downloaded tons of stuff (not unexpected) thenn when i typed in the third command it told me that getlibs was an unknown command. I repeated the process and it told me again that getlibs was an unknown command

Then do what cadaver said,

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sudo apt-get install getlibs 


Then follow the other steps again but replace the third with

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sudo getlibs Graal 


So you can open Graal with root access.  

Well I mean, it tells you what you need to gather if you do this, too:

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sudo -s 


Then, enter in your password to allow your PC to go into it's root.

Now, change the pointed directory to where Graal is located.

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cd /home/username/dir_graal_is_in 


Finally, go ahead and execute your Graal client.

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exec Graal 


That's it, now you're finished. It should say something like, "Error: Dependency xxxx does not exist!"

Remember: Do not boot Graal like this after the dependencies have been installed, as it will lock the ~/.graal/graal4 directory to the root user, allowing no changes/executions from regular users. (it chmods it to 755 for root, thus not allowing anyone else to do anything.)

Edit:
I wish Stefan would just pack it into a simple deb so you could do sudo dpkg -i Graal.deb and it would just state what you need to install from Synaptic and this could all be done with.  

getlibs is available on the Ubuntu repos now? I thought the dropped it :o

If it's there, use it! It will attempt to run a program and determine every single download needed to run the application.