Running Dolphin in Linux

Zephyr618 · 04-30-2009, 08:02 AM #1

I'm very new to linux... How exactly do I run dolphin if clicking the executable doesn't do anything?

jigglywiggly · 04-30-2009, 09:55 AM #2

Eh, I'm not on my laptop which has jaunty on it, I'm guessing since its a tar file just unpack the rar with the gui into your home folder. Then cd into that directory and just do
./configure
make
make install.

Zephyr618 · (This post was last modified: 04-30-2009, 10:17 AM by Zephyr618.)

(04-30-2009, 09:55 AM)jigglywiggly Wrote: Eh, I'm not on my laptop which has jaunty on it, I'm guessing since its a tar file just unpack the rar with the gui into your home folder. Then cd into that directory and just do
./configure
make
make install.

Well I cd'ed into the directory (btw it took me a half hour to figure out that that meant to use the command cd in the terminal) and tried all 3 of the commands you listed and none of them worked. What could I have done wrong?

btw it looks near the exact same as the folder does in windows. I don't think it is supposed to install but rather just be run, unfortunately, the executable does nothing.

jigglywiggly · (This post was last modified: 04-30-2009, 10:28 AM by jigglywiggly.)

(04-30-2009, 10:09 AM)Zephyr618 Wrote:
(04-30-2009, 09:55 AM)jigglywiggly Wrote: Eh, I'm not on my laptop which has jaunty on it, I'm guessing since its a tar file just unpack the rar with the gui into your home folder. Then cd into that directory and just do
./configure
make
make install.

Well I cd'ed into the directory (btw it took me a half hour to figure out that that meant to use the command cd in the terminal) and tried all 3 of the commands you listed and none of them worked. What could I have done wrong?

Oh I just looked at it, try doing this from a terminal ./Dolphin
I wish I had my laptop to try it.

Zephyr618 · (This post was last modified: 05-01-2009, 05:00 AM by Zephyr618.)

(04-30-2009, 10:18 AM)jigglywiggly Wrote:
(04-30-2009, 10:09 AM)Zephyr618 Wrote:
(04-30-2009, 09:55 AM)jigglywiggly Wrote: Eh, I'm not on my laptop which has jaunty on it, I'm guessing since its a tar file just unpack the rar with the gui into your home folder. Then cd into that directory and just do
./configure
make
make install.

Well I cd'ed into the directory (btw it took me a half hour to figure out that that meant to use the command cd in the terminal) and tried all 3 of the commands you listed and none of them worked. What could I have done wrong?

Oh I just looked at it, try doing this from a terminal ./Dolphin
I wish I had my laptop to try it.

I typed "dolphin" in the console and it said dolphin was not installed. It also told me to enter "sudo apt-get install dolphin" to install it. So I did that and told it to run dolphin again. I think it installed the file manager program called dolphin rather than dolphin because when I entered dolphin again a strange windows explorer-like program that did not even slightly resemble Dolphin Emu.

Also, when I typed ./Dolphin (why was it case sensitive?) it said "error while loading shared libraries: libbluetooth.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory"

mikedep333 · 05-03-2009, 06:51 PM #6

Yes, dolphin is the name of a new file manager for KDE.

It sounds like your problem with clicking the executable or running ./Dolphin is that a dependency is not installed.

On Ubuntu 8.04, 8.10, and 9.04, you can install all the dependencies with this command:
sudo apt-get install subversion scons g++ wx2.8-headers libwxbase2.8-0 libwxbase2.8-dbg libwxbase2.8-dev libwxgtk2.8-0 libwxgtk2.8-dbg libwxgtk2.8-dev libsdl1.2-dev nvidia-cg-toolkit libxxf86vm1-dbg libxxf86vm-dev libxext6-dbg libxext-dev libglew1.5-dev libcairo2-dbg libcairo2-dev libao2 libao-dev libbluetooth-dev

Found on:
http://code.google.com/p/dolphin-emu/wiki/Linux_dependencies

If you're using another distro, you'll have to look through your package management system for bluetooth libraries. They might be named something like "bluez" or "libbluetooth".

thegamefreak0134 · 05-04-2009, 12:10 PM #7

You're quite clearly *very* new to linux, so I'll explain this as easily as I can.

Just typing "dolphin" into the console (even if you're already in the directory where Dolphin is) won't run that program, it will look for a program that's installed globally called "dolphin". Instead, you need to prefix the name of the executable with ./ which essentially tells linux to open the program in *this* directory by that name.

Navigate to where Dolphin is (best to put it somewhere in your home directory so its easy to find) and type:

./dolphin

and unless it says it can't find the file (which means you're in the wrong place or you spelled it wrong) post the error messages from the console here.

I'm betting on one of two things. Either (a) it will complain about direct rendering not being enabled, which means that you need to install graphics card drivers, or (b) it will complain about some dependancies not being found. (b) is very very common when trying to run things that you didn't install using the package manager, if that's the case you'll be sent on a wild goose chase to actually try to install all of the dependancies manually. That, or you can just use getlibs to do it.

Let us know how you do, Linux can be quite frustrating at first, but once you learn it linux gets to be incredibly powerful.

05-22-2009, 12:58 PM #8

(05-04-2009, 12:10 PM)thegamefreak0134 Wrote: You're quite clearly *very* new to linux, so I'll explain this as easily as I can.

Your tone comes across as snide and unkind. Let's not talk down to the guy for not being at your particular level, ok. Instead, we should aplaud his ambition.

I am a relative newb as well. I installed Linux for the first time a few weeks ago. Granted, I have some command line experience from Mac OS X, but before this past week, I didn't even know what "./" meant. So I'd like to remind you that we were all there at one point... some more recently than others.

...and should a guy REALLY need to understand command line to play a GAME for pete's sake? That still kind of bothers me.

Moving on...

I have a similar dependency issue with my Dolphin binary, and though I installed all the libs that seemed the most probable, it still will not run. My terminal says:

Code:

~/Desktop/Binary/Linux-i686$ ./Dolphin

./Dolphin: error while loading shared libraries: libopenal.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

Anyone know what library I need exactly?

Thanks in advance

hakunushi · (This post was last modified: 05-22-2009, 01:51 PM by hakunushi.)

(05-22-2009, 12:58 PM)guitarlesson Wrote:
(05-04-2009, 12:10 PM)thegamefreak0134 Wrote: You're quite clearly *very* new to linux, so I'll explain this as easily as I can.

Your tone comes across as snide and unkind. Let's not talk down to the guy for not being at your particular level, ok. Instead, we should aplaud his ambition.

I am a relative newb as well. I installed Linux for the first time a few weeks ago. Granted, I have some command line experience from Mac OS X, but before this past week, I didn't even know what "./" meant. So I'd like to remind you that we were all there at one point... some more recently than others.

...and should a guy REALLY need to understand command line to play a GAME for pete's sake? That still kind of bothers me.

Moving on...

I have a similar dependency issue with my Dolphin binary, and though I installed all the libs that seemed the most probable, it still will not run. My terminal says:

Code:

~/Desktop/Binary/Linux-i686$ ./Dolphin ./Dolphin: error while loading shared libraries: libopenal.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

Anyone know what library I need exactly?

Thanks in advance

Specialy to play a game, since linux doesnt have good support for games at all... ppl need s to know about wine and stuff, also gota know how to enable their direct rendering, know how to configure their graphic card, and know how to mess with xorg.conf, so u can see u gota know a lot about linux just to play a game, ubuntu clains that u dont but u do.

linux is better than windows, but more complex, the common user of linux gota know a lot more than the common windows user, sad but true.

about the lib u need to install openal, its on debian/ubuntu repositories, since i hate rpm based distros i wouldnt know where to get a openal rpm, but i guess u can find it on the plf(penguin liberation front), but its batter for u to use a package manage for such distros wich uses rpm like apt-get or yast.

08-05-2009, 09:56 AM **#10**

Here is a quick guide for those of you running the 32bit version of Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty Jackalope)

Download Dolphin from here:

http://www.dolphin-emu.com/downloads.php

Then install the libraries need to run the emulator with this command in a terminal:

Quote:sudo apt-get install subversion scons g++ wx2.8-headers libwxbase2.8-0 libwxbase2.8-dbg libwxbase2.8-dev libwxgtk2.8-0 libwxgtk2.8-dbg libwxgtk2.8-dev libsdl1.2-dev nvidia-cg-toolkit libxxf86vm1-dbg libxxf86vm-dev libxext6-dbg libxext-dev libglew1.5-dev libcairo2-dbg libcairo2-dev libao2 libao-dev libbluetooth-dev libopenal1

Next you need to create a symbolic link from the latest bluetooth library to the one that Dolphin is looking for:

Quote:sudo ln -s /usr/lib/libbluetooth.so.3 /usr/lib/libbluetooth.so.2

That's all, the Emulator will now run either by double clicking in the file browser or by running in the terminal with ./Dolphin

Hope this helps someone!