Cannot find palettes.dat, and yes it's in the right folder.

[SenaC]

Hey folks. This project sounds great and getting to properly play X-Com on my Linux lappy alone would be very nice, even without the neatness I see looking at this. But then there is sadness.

I take my files for the windows CE version I have on my thumbdrive, (Of course I have it on my thumbdrive, don't you?) and after some searching locate the folder they actually belong in. And then I get the above error. Only trouble is, I looked in GEODATA, which I put in the Data folder, in the openxcom folder that the ppa install added to usr. The file's there. I even put the same files in the .local user folder it made as well.

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[02-04-2014 18:32:38] [INFO] Data folder is:
[02-04-2014 18:32:38] [INFO] Data search is:
[02-04-2014 18:32:38] [INFO] - /home/lynx/.local/share/openxcom/data/
[02-04-2014 18:32:38] [INFO] - /usr/share/default/openxcom/data/
[02-04-2014 18:32:38] [INFO] - /usr/share/gnome/openxcom/data/
[02-04-2014 18:32:38] [INFO] - /usr/local/sharehttps://openxcom/data/
[02-04-2014 18:32:38] [INFO] - /usr/sharehttps://openxcom/data/
[02-04-2014 18:32:38] [INFO] - /usr/share/mdmhttps://openxcom/data/
[02-04-2014 18:32:38] [INFO] - /usr/local/share/openxcom/data/
[02-04-2014 18:32:38] [INFO] - /usr/share/openxcom/data/
[02-04-2014 18:32:38] [INFO] - ./data/
[02-04-2014 18:32:38] [INFO] User folder is: /home/lynx/.local/share/openxcom/
[02-04-2014 18:32:38] [INFO] Config folder is: /home/lynx/.config/openxcom/
[02-04-2014 18:32:38] [INFO] Options loaded successfully.
[02-04-2014 18:32:38] [INFO] SDL initialized successfully.
[02-04-2014 18:32:38] [INFO] SDL_mixer initialized successfully.
[02-04-2014 18:32:38] [INFO] Attempting to set display to 640x400x8...
[02-04-2014 18:32:38] [INFO] Display set to 640x400x8.
[02-04-2014 18:32:38] [INFO] Using SSE2 2X zoom routine.
[02-04-2014 18:32:38] [INFO] Loading ruleset...
[02-04-2014 18:32:39] [INFO] Ruleset loaded successfully.
[02-04-2014 18:32:39] [INFO] Loading resources...
[02-04-2014 18:32:39] [ERROR] GEODATA/PALETTES.DAT not found
All I get. Running latest Mint Linux... 15? Installed via the ppa through terminal, using a patched X-Com Collector's edition. For the heck of it, I even put my dos copy of the file in there. Clearly I am doing something wrong. Any guesses? I looked at the web version that was linked somewhere and I'm loving what I see, I'd just like to do it locally.

[SupSuper]

Are you using 0.9? Could you try compiling and building the latest code and see if that fixes it?

I think there was a bug in looking up data in multiple folders that was fixed at some point. Alternatively, try putting all your "data" (both OpenXcom and X-COM) together in one folder to work around it.

[SenaC]

Ah, late night computer use. Such a scamp. So, since people rarely seem to do this properly anymore, I'll lay out what my issue actually was, for future generations.

First off, no Sena, it wasn't in the right folder. I put my ufo folders in /home/lynx/.local/share/openxcom.

Funny thing is, if you look at the log: /home/lynx/.local/share/openxcom/data/

So I durped and did that instead. I then had an issue with the game not being able to access the usr folder. A quick $sudo nemo (or other file explorer here) and I was able to make the changes. And as of this moment the lovely PS1 version of the music is playing in the background, and I have a date with a sectoid.

I'm calling this one in as solved. Thank you kindly.