Having trouble installing

[Tvmbledown]

So, I'm running Ubuntu Hardy, and the only version of Singularity I'd
seen for a goodly while was the one just before we got to see night
and day... On an AntiX install for my laptop, I installed Singularity
through Synaptic, and WOW! The new GUI blew me away, and the new style
of play, and allocation of resources? I loved it!

But... Then I came back to my desktop, and tried reinstalling the
package through Synaptic... And I'm only able to get my hands on the
old version.

How can I go about actually doing it right? It's a great game, and I
haven't even come CLOSE to winning. Probably won't for a while.

[evilmrhenry]

I'm not sure why you wouldn't have access to the newest version on your
desktop. I didn't think Debian even had the older version available
anymore. Just to check, you did perform an update of the database? Also,
what version did you end up with?

[evilmrhenry]

Stephen Zuckerman wrote:
> Version is 0.26a. I'm more than a bit of a novice when it comes to all
> things *nix, even after about a year of trying out various distros... So
> while I'm fairly sure I DID update everything, I may not have any idea
> what I'm doing.
>
> Is there anything more complicated in terms of updating than reloading
> the packages Synaptic's showing me? I imagine there might be, but I
> wouldn't know how to make it go.

Refreshing should work. You can also run "apt-get update" from a console
to make sure there isn't anything wrong with synaptic.

[Stephen Zuckerman]

Running apt-get update and then refreshing accomplished nil - still seeing 0.26a+r409-5 as the latest version available through Synaptic. For reference, running Ubuntu 8.04 LTS Hardy Heron.

Theoretically I should be able to install from the tarball on the site, but as we'll recall, I'm a "user," and therefore incapable of figuring out what a README actually means. (Jests aside, I can't seem to make it work - missing something with python. Is there a step-by-step, moron-friendly set of instructions for installing from the tarball?)

[evilmrhenry]

Stephen Zuckerman wrote:
> Running apt-get update and then refreshing accomplished nil - still
> seeing 0.26a+r409-5 as the latest version available through Synaptic.
> For reference, running Ubuntu 8.04 LTS Hardy Heron.
>
> Theoretically I should be able to install from the tarball on the site,
> but as we'll recall, I'm a "user," and therefore incapable of figuring

> out what a README actually /means./ (Jests aside, I can't seem to make

> it work - missing something with python. Is there a step-by-step,
> moron-friendly set of instructions for installing from the tarball?)

The quick version is to install python, pygame, and numpy. You *should*
already have python and pygame installed if you're able to run the old
version, but numpy is new. Install the python-numpy package from
synaptic, and singularity should work.

[Phix]

Just as an aside, how does one go about getting the newest version of the game into the synaptic repositories? That would be easier for everyone.

[evilm...@emhsoft.com]

> Just as an aside, how does one go about getting the newest version of the
> game into the synaptic repositories? That would be easier for everyone.

.30 is the newest version, and the one I see on my system.

[Ian]

Phix wrote:
> Just as an aside, how does one go about getting the newest version of
> the game into the synaptic repositories? That would be easier for
> everyone.

For Ubuntu:
Contact someone at Canonical and ask them to update the version in
Ubuntu's repository. Don't know who, exactly.
Barring that, you'd have to make a launchpad PPA, and then have people
update their /etc/sources.list file.
Ironically, /now/ is the time to get that 9.10 goodness into the system
-- though they might already have feature freeze.

Synaptic isn't a "one-size-fits-all" -- it's just a graphical front-end
for apt. And the repositories are basically what demarcates one
distribution from another. So... you'd have to do this on a
"per-distro" basis.