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Posted April 23, 2014
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keithLaMothe: <snip>
Anyway, let me know if that works for you. Basically the above procedure is all the updater does :)
Thanks for the response - funnily enough I'd just worked it out myself ...

The reason the updater dies is for some reason the current GOG unins000.exe gets a runtime error under wine (Fedora 20 64bit with wine straight from the fedora standard repos) and the updater calls the uninstaller?

The following bash script patched from 1.000 to 1.004 - looking forward to playing tonight (especially after my disastrous first game on my commute this morning)!

cd "${HOME}/.wine/drive_c/GOG Games/The Last Federation"
for i in {1..4}
do
wget -O RuntimeData/updates/100${i}.zip [url=http://lastfed.s3.amazonaws.com/TLF_100${i}.zip]http://lastfed.s3.amazonaws.com/TLF_100${i}.zip[/url]
unzip -o RuntimeData/updates/100${i}.zip
rm -f RuntimeData/updates/100${i}.zip
done
mv DB/Managed/Assembly-CSharp.dll LastFederation_Data/Managed/
Post edited April 23, 2014 by jimbob0i0
Posted April 23, 2014
Standalone installer for major patchs (for example: from 1.0 to 1.3) will be nice. But for minor patches (1.00001.a - 1.00001.a-1)? I'm don't see any purpose for this.
Post edited April 23, 2014 by Arikotomoshi
Posted April 23, 2014
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jimbob0i0: Thanks for the response - funnily enough I'd just worked it out myself ...
Haha, well, I guess that's how it goes sometimes :) Glad to hear it worked.

And yea, there was that DB-folder wrinkle that's new to the updating process for this game and that I'd forgotten when posting above. Basically that just holds stuff that needs to be copied to different places depending on the platform (Windows/Mac/Linux). That way we don't have to include 3 separate copies of that dll (which holds practically all the actual game code), etc.
Post edited April 23, 2014 by keithLaMothe
Posted April 24, 2014
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jimbob0i0: Thanks for the response - funnily enough I'd just worked it out myself ...
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keithLaMothe: Haha, well, I guess that's how it goes sometimes :) Glad to hear it worked.

And yea, there was that DB-folder wrinkle that's new to the updating process for this game and that I'd forgotten when posting above. Basically that just holds stuff that needs to be copied to different places depending on the platform (Windows/Mac/Linux). That way we don't have to include 3 separate copies of that dll (which holds practically all the actual game code), etc.
That makes sense ... think I'll make it a little more generic for linux users on wine at gog (ie parse the updates text file to see what needs to be downloaded) ...

At least until GOG have linux releases later on this year ;)

Incidentally I'm curious - why is the updater calling the uninstaller ?
Posted April 25, 2014
let's say I move to another computer. Can I just grab all of the installed files and slap them onto the new machine, therefore eliminating the need to update from 1.00 all over again?
Posted April 25, 2014
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micktiegs_8: let's say I move to another computer. Can I just grab all of the installed files and slap them onto the new machine, therefore eliminating the need to update from 1.00 all over again?
Yes ,that would work.
Posted April 25, 2014
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jimbob0i0: Incidentally I'm curious - why is the updater calling the uninstaller ?
I have no idea, it seems like it shouldn't. I don't think there normally _is_ an uninstaller in other (non-GOG) distributions of the game, so I'd be surprised if the updater was expecting it to be there, let alone actually invoking it.

But I didn't write the updater, so maybe Chris did intend that, dunno. I'll try to bug him about that when he's less insanely busy :)
Posted April 25, 2014
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jimbob0i0: Incidentally I'm curious - why is the updater calling the uninstaller ?
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keithLaMothe: I have no idea, it seems like it shouldn't. I don't think there normally _is_ an uninstaller in other (non-GOG) distributions of the game, so I'd be surprised if the updater was expecting it to be there, let alone actually invoking it.

But I didn't write the updater, so maybe Chris did intend that, dunno. I'll try to bug him about that when he's less insanely busy :)
Yeah it seemed weird - I haven't tried it on an actual windows desktop yet to see the behaviour...

It was definitely invoking it though as I was stepping through the code with winedbg to see where it was triggering - my plan Z was to use winedbg to set a break and step over that call if I hadn't worked out how to do the manual update ;)

I'd appreciate that - no hurry though :)
Posted April 29, 2014
Do we have an update on why the updater is calling the uninstaller?
Posted May 09, 2014
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windslicer: Do we have an update on why the updater is calling the uninstaller?
I just asked Chris and he said that our updater was basically replaced by another file for GOG's install, so we don't really know what's going on in there. He said he'll ask GOG about it again.
Posted May 12, 2014
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windslicer: Do we have an update on why the updater is calling the uninstaller?
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keithLaMothe: I just asked Chris and he said that our updater was basically replaced by another file for GOG's install, so we don't really know what's going on in there. He said he'll ask GOG about it again.
Alright, thanks for your reply!
Posted May 13, 2014
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jimbob0i0: Incidentally I'm curious - why is the updater calling the uninstaller ?
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windslicer: Do we have an update on why the updater is calling the uninstaller?
Apparently it was GOG induced.
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