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Posted June 04, 2015
Hello,

I cant get Icewind Dale Enhanced Edition to install or to save properly on my Linux Mint System. When I use the start.sh script after unpacking the tarball, the game starts, but I cannot save any games - the game crashes then. wihlie starting Icewindle executalte in the "game" folder, the game complains about missing libs - which are in fact installed!
Any ideas how to fix it?

greetings, tom


Ok, the Problem is solved:
my mistake, I manged to solve the problem. First time, I started the "start.sh" script with the sudo-command, because I thought this was an installation.script. Hence, the savgame-folder in .local/share/ had sudo-rights, and the game was not able to save there, when I started it as a normal user. I just hat to change the rights of the folder with the chmod command.

greetings, tom
Post edited June 05, 2015 by tkonicz
Posted June 19, 2015
Hi, I'm trying to install this from Ubuntu 15.04. I downloaded the Tarball but can't seem to figure out what to do even after looking around on the internet for help. Can you explain how you did it?

I got it running with bash start.sh, however is there not a way to install it so it can be run just by clicking the icon?
Post edited June 19, 2015 by russ108b
Posted June 19, 2015
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tkonicz: Hello,

I cant get Icewind Dale Enhanced Edition to install or to save properly on my Linux Mint System. When I use the start.sh script after unpacking the tarball, the game starts, but I cannot save any games - the game crashes then. wihlie starting Icewindle executalte in the "game" folder, the game complains about missing libs - which are in fact installed!
Any ideas how to fix it?

greetings, tom

Ok, the Problem is solved:
my mistake, I manged to solve the problem. First time, I started the "start.sh" script with the sudo-command, because I thought this was an installation.script. Hence, the savgame-folder in .local/share/ had sudo-rights, and the game was not able to save there, when I started it as a normal user. I just hat to change the rights of the folder with the chmod command.

greetings, tom
One word of advice: never give a game root permissions. No game should ever require them to run, and a buggy or malicious game could do a lot of harm with such permissions.

Of course, if you are seriously concerned about security, you could create a special account that you use just for playing games, and use a different account for everything else. (SteamOS does this)
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