lack of documentation on ubuntu

[thenewbie]

Hi,

a suggestion to the love site: it make it easy to install and run. or at least write how to do it.

I tried to install love on ubuntu, there is a lack of info about debendencies, how to install, and after lot of tryings, one realize , reading in the forum that love does not run on ubuntu last version.
a simple couple of lines in the main page or in the ubuntu download could make the live easy,m without suffering to trying to install love game.

becuase the name of the game is: "love".
thank you

[veethree]

Perhaps the problem isn't lack of documentation, But a lack of experience with ubuntu on your end. Haven't used linux for a while, But if i remember right, You just have to install the ppa (sudo add-apt-repository ppa:bartbes/love-stable), Then install love (sudo apt-get install love), and it should work.

[slime]

I tried to install love on ubuntu, there is a lack of info about debendencies, how to install, and after lot of tryings, one realize , reading in the forum that love does not run on ubuntu last version.

The PPA should run on 14.04 (and it says so on the front page.)

[murks]

I don't understand why Debian/Ubuntu don't have Löve in some official repository.

[slime]

Ubuntu does, but only version 0.8.0 unfortunately.

[thenewbie]

"Perhaps the problem
isn't lack of documentation, But a lack of experience with ubuntu on your end"
Answer: no

in the main page it says"

Ubuntu 12.04–13.10
PPA (also for Ubuntu 14.04)
32-bit: liblove · love · dbg
64-bit: liblove · love · dbg "
so I installed first the 64-bit liblove without success because of the dependencies, and also love can not be installed.
so I tried with the ppa version. following the instructions in: https://launchpad.net/+help-soyuz/ppa-sources-list.html

but it failed too because libraries and dependences... after all :
configure: error: LÖVE needs "OpenAL", please install "OpenAL" with development files and try again

but OpenAl is not easily found in apt-get... isnt it?

[bartbes]

I don't understand why Debian/Ubuntu don't have Löve in some official repository.

As slime said, ubuntu has 0.8.0, and debian testing/unstable currently have 0.9.1 (yay!), which means the next ubuntu release will probably have 0.9.1 too. That said, it's to be expected that these repositories have (much) older versions, and the ppa just provides you with the current version.

Perhaps the problem
Ubuntu 12.04–13.10
PPA (also for Ubuntu 14.04)
32-bit: liblove · love · dbg
64-bit: liblove · love · dbg

It's unfortunate I can't list every dependency there, but if you use the ubuntu software center to install this deb it should ask you to install all dependencies too, considering all dependency information is present in the deb file.

so I tried with the ppa version. following the instructions in: https://launchpad.net/+help-soyuz/ppa-sources-list.html

Which should work.

configure: error: LÖVE needs "OpenAL", please install "OpenAL" with development files and try again

Yes, you still need the dependencies when building from source. Even more, in fact, because you need development libraries too, listed here.

but OpenAl is not easily found in apt-get... isnt it?

Yes, it is