DF General Discussion / Tales from the Linux
« on: August 20, 2006, 06:25:00 pm »So, I've been playing on Windows 2000. No troubles, save for when I was a dumbass and dragged the files from the zip window into a new folder in Windows Explorer. When I did that, I got an error that said "Main Index File Missing/Corrupted"
Fine. I just needed to extract instead of drag and drop so the file structure was preserved.
Now, I am trying to install the game on my Ubuntu Linux laptop. I've hoped to do it in Wine, and it looks like this would be possible. The game starts and asks if I want to go to fullscreen mode. Unfortunately, the same problem occurs here as it does under Windows when you diddle the file structure of the game and its subdirectories. "Main Index File Missing/Corrupted."
This time, however, I preserved the file structure. I'm sure that the issue is the use of a /-based Unix file system, versus a \-based win32 system.
Not sure if there's anything that can be done in the source code that can fix this. Just thought I'd add my Linux experience to the pile of reports herein.