Topic: Game craches without recognizable indication

Goofy wrote:

It's only one error-message, now:

aptsources.distro.NoDistroTemplateException: Error: could not find a distribution template for Sparky/Tyche

But I hope thats unimportant?

This is because your distribution is called different than the Ubuntu ones. No idea if it matters... please ask in the sparky forums There are so many linux distributions out there, we couldn't know anyone.

How can I recognize, which exactly Widelands-Version is running now?

Either run widelands in terminal or the window title should show it. But i am not sure, since i am compiling myself (which is really not difficult).

Fight simulator for Widelands:
https://wide-fighter.netlify.app/

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Hello kaputtnik, hello to all,

no I have a solution for getting the daily version in Sparky-Linux. The administrator of the Sparky-Forum was very helpful! I think it will be better to creat a new topic for this.

But before I'm doing this, I want talk about, how I can get the information, which Widelands-version is actually running:

If I start widelands in a terminal window by typing widelands, I get always the message that it is

'Version build-19 (Release)'

But if there is running a daily build, it should be for example

'1:19+repack-2'

If I type the command

'apt-cache policy widelands'

I get the full informtion about the actually widelands package. In my case:

goofy@pc01goofy:~$ apt-cache policy widelands

widelands: Installiert: 1:19+repack-2

Installationskandidat: 1:19+repack-2

Versionstabelle:

*** 1:19+repack-2 500

500 http://ftp.debian.org/debian testing/main amd64 Packages

100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

1:18-ppa0-bzr8262-201701251832~ubuntu16.10.1 500

500 http://ppa.launchpad.net/widelands-dev/widelands-daily/ubuntu yakkety/main amd64 Packages

In spite of the fact, that there is the daily-build, the Widelands starts with the status-message 'Version build-19 (Release)'.

Can it be that it is unwanted, perhaps a little bug?

goofy

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Hello GunChleoc,

yes, this 'apt-cache policy widelands' -command shows your version-table, and 'says' that there is installed the '1:19+repack-2' -daily version.

But I haven't got a feedback about this from the Widelands-programm. And I want to know from the Widelands-programm, which version is actually running. If I start Widelans it shows the message that it is 'Version build-19 (Release)', but I expect it should be 'Version build-19 (daily)' or similarly. So I could recognize, that all was successful.

goofy

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Yes, thats my problem: Maybe build19 (Release) is being started instead Version build-19 (daily).

And I don't know what I should believe: The status-message from the Widelands-programm or the output from the 'apt-cache policy' -command.

...If you have the daily-version on your computer, you can type at the terminal 'widelands' and look what is the output info (in the terminal window first line).

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in addition to what is mentioned above, you can use:

which widelands

prints out all widelands binaries in the path. The best way to be sure what binary are you running is to use binary with path, either absolute, or relative, f.e.:

/usr/bin/widelands   # absolute
./widelands    # relative, if binary is in current directory
./blabla/widelands    # other example of relative path

debian based distributions can be querried for the package the file belongs to like:

dpkg -S /path/to/file

But I can not verify it now, I dont have debian based distro

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