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Dwarf 1: Weaponsmith / Armoursmith, Proficient
Dwarves 2-6: Proficient Teacher plus one each of the following: Armour User, Shield User, Dodger, Striker, Kicker, Biter.

Thanks Sutremaine! This answer is exactly what I was looking for, but I've a few questions.

I would have thought the 2-6 dwarves would need some skill with a weapon too. Why not? Also, I don't quite understand your description for channeling the tiles the wagon and supplies are on. Do you mean this:

side view

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Then build a bridge where the Wagon was? This causes a cavein, but doesn't harm the goods?

For Linux users, static compiling a binary with lots of deps (especially qt!) is never the way to go. 

To distribute binary package, the "right" thing to do of course would be to package dwarf therapist for each OS, and host builds on build.opensuse.org or something.  I could do RPM distros if someone did the deb distros. I haven't bothered mostly because I assume most DF linux users are on a debian/ubuntu derivative.

The link in the script is fine, it's just not a normal "link".

hg is the command line program for mercurial, a version control system like git.

Install mercurial and you'll be fine.

Now whether df-lnp-installer should attempt to update the DwarfTherapost mercurial repo when --skip-deps is provided, I dunno.

Heya! I've used a part of your tutorial in my project Dwarf Fortress Bootstrap for Linux. It's a packaging project for Dwarf Fortress to resolve all this maddening issues around getting DF and tools running on Linux. I don't run Debian or Ubuntu myself, so I'd love it if you could test it!


http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=125817.0

Hey folks,

I got sick and tired of the PITA song and dance that must be done whenever you want to install Dwarf Fortress + friendly utilities on Linux, tired of chasing down missing libraries, updating symlinks, battling compile errors, copy/pasting commands from a forum thread that's years old. All that blows.

Dwarf Fortress has never fit well within the constraints of distro packages. The game is malleable. We love to edit our game assets. But running software outside the package model is a PITA. We continue to press on however. Us Linux-folk have looked on at our Windows and Mac brethren as they frolic about in if-not-gorgeous-then-functional UIs with bundled one-click installers.

I'm here today to take the first steps to deliver us from mockery.

df-bootstrap is a simple tool that installs DF and assorted tools. It aims to support multiple distros with zero fuss for the user.

It currently installs:

• Dwarf Fortress
• dfhack (form source)
• splinterz's Dwarf Therapist fork (from source)
• Soundsense

Supported Distros:

• Fedora (my distro)
• Ubuntu (untested)

It's not pretty yet. If you're completely allergic to the command line, well this isn't for you. I do have grand plans for a GUI launcher ala LNP and Dwarf Builder for Mac, but, well, the distro specific kinks need to be worked out first.

This first beta version is only available on github. You'll need git to checkout the sources and run the script. This is in order to elicit the help of technical users (and devs!) who can submit bugs and contribute fixes. Please use github's issue tracker and pull request.

I get an email everytime a reply to this thread is posted, and everytime I see that email I get quite excited. For the past two weeks I've been very disappointed :-(

Sorry, I was referring to the latter, that is the sprites assigned to creatures. Tilesets are a trivial case.

For every creature a mod author creates, they have to assign a particular graphic to it correct? Moroever, they have to do it on a per-graphics pack basis, because the packs use different sprites. Correct?