Ubuntu installation issues.
 

I am new to Ubuntu just to brief how light on the lingo you may need to be.
I am dual-booting ubuntu on a vista computer, I have checked for errors with the application and it can't find any. I downloaded the graal installer but when I open it I get this message:
"gedit has not been able to detect the character coding.
Please check that you are not trying to open a binary file.
Select a character coding from the menu and try again."
I want to switch to linux though but graal is a big thing to me, any assistance?

It's may be seeing the file as text, not as executable.
The best is to open a terminal window, and type this:

NPC Code:

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cd ~/Desktop

chmod +x graal4setup

./graal4setup

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There were a few threads about that, e.g. http://forums.graalonline.com/forums...ad.php?t=74964

Sorry, didn't know what that meant when I read that one. just installed ubuntu today. now I get this:
"/tmp/autopackage.296636370/meta/@www.graalonline.com/graalonline:5.12/apkg-downloader: line 590: autopackage/libexec/autosu-tui: No such file or directory
The autopackage support code could not be installed.

It can be manually downloaded and installed by running the
installation script located in the downloaded archive.
"

That is after it asked me this and I pressed Y:
"The installation of this software requires some additional support
code to be installed.

A] If the support code is found in a local directory, it will be used.
The file containing the support code will be called:

"autopackage.tar.bz2"

or

B] If there is an active Internet connection, the support code will be
downloaded from:

"http://autopackage.org/downloads/latest/autopackage.tar.bz2"

Proxy users should ensure the http_proxy environment variable is
set, otherwise the download may fail.


Selection B --> OK to download and install support code now? (Y/n): "

Seems you are missing the autopackage repository. I don't care for autopackage but in this case you need it. Press y to those responses and download. If it doesn't install, try apt-get install autopackage (unfortunately i don't have an ubuntu box around so i can't test :( ) and if that doesn't work, download the zipped-tar from the link and go from there. When installed, sudo into root and run the Graal install again. Hopefully it should go fine.

I manually downloaded them and when I try to unpack them using the terminal, it tells me I need GLIB 2.0 or higher and I don't know what that is nor how to get it XD. Complete noob to linux.

apt-get my friend!

sudo apt-get install glibc

Should work out what you need and download/install the relevant packages.

If you're having trouble with using/understanding apt-get in terminal, Ubuntu has GUI applications that you can use for apt-get. Synaptic Package Manager is one that is installed with the distribution, you can find it in your applications.

Once you open that, you can search for glib and it will walk you through the process of downloading and installing. It can be a good tool for a new linux user who is not familiar with terminal commands.

*hiss*

Hmmm sounds a little bit complex. In the next Linux version we will try to make it simpler, just provide a zip/tgz.

Or perhaps an rpm, and dpkg package? That'd be good.

That would be good because I got nothing from twinny's code and that manager doesn't have the file I need. Anything else I try to install on here is easy... yet graal isn't...

atomuskus: Make sure you are installing graal as the super user or via sudo.

NPC Code:

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$ sudo su

Password:

# ./graal4setup

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I am still getting the first error and I still can't do the autopackage without glib 2.0 or higher which I can't seem to find.

sudo apt-cache search libglib2
I believe it's libglib2.0, you should already have it if you're running ubnutu/gnome!
sudo apt-get install libglib2.0 libglib2-dev

Actually Graal doesn't need many separate files anymore, so it might be even possible to skip any installation and add just something to add a link into the games menu (and adding a desktop link), to make it easier to find the game.

The icon the installer currently uses is tiny and makes it blurry in the menu/gnome-panel...

Additionally for the forums:
for a pretty picture on your iPhone. ;)

Very nice, except the glossy effect added ruins it.

EDIT: forgot to flip the image, sorry. Just turn your head ;)

Not jail broken? And what kind of mad bastard has 42 Unanswered SMS!? I would go insane!

It says have all of the libglib files... When I try to install the autopackager though It calls it GLib 2.0... can anyone just send me the zip or something, this is the only thing causing me problems on Ubuntu...

No, I prefer not to jail break it as I would like it to continue working ... I am also only 13, and I don't want to waste all the money I spent on it for it to turn into an iBrick.

I am that kind of mad bastard ;)

Most of those are Twitter and AIM Mobile.

Anyone want to just zip it up for me as a kind service?
Edit:
I found a folder called glib, in it there is a file called diff, it says the version is glib-2.16.1. I guess that means it isn't detecting it... Any ideas, or you could always do the above?

I have gotten some progress... This is all I can get it to though !pissed!:
us2rugrats@us2rugrats-desktop:~$ cd ~/Desktop
us2rugrats@us2rugrats-desktop:~/Desktop$ sudo su
[sudo] password for us2rugrats:
root@us2rugrats-desktop:/home/us2rugrats/Desktop# ./graal4setup

# Preparing package: Graal Online
# Checking for required C library versions ... failed
# FAIL:
# Your copy of glibc, a core system library, is too old for this package.
# You need at least the following symbols in glibc: GLIBC_2.0.
#
# This error normally means that whoever built the package did not build it correctly.
# Please report the contents of this message to the provider of this package, and
# ask them to rebuild it using apbuild.
#
# Upgrading glibc is highly dangerous, so we recommend in this situation that you
# compile the app you want to install from the sources if possible. Sorry :(
FAIL: Unable to prepare package Graal Online.
root@us2rugrats-desktop:/home/us2rugrats/Desktop#

sudo apt-get install gcc

See if that gets you anywhere.

Already have the newest version :(