I installed nightlies, but when i run openxcom i read 1.0 on main menu screen

[Tchey]

Hello,

I'm on Linux Mint

I've installed openxcom with the game from Steam.

I install the ppa -beta, update, installe with sudo apt-get install openxcom
Then i go to  /home/tchey/.local/share/openxcom/UFO
I copy the original folders from Steam to UFO folders

In a Terminal i do openxcom

Game launchs, it works, sounds and all, but then i can read "OpenXcom 1.0"  on the main menu screen. It should not be "Beta" or "Nighty" or something ?

Am i playing the last version ? What did i miss ?

Thanks

[carbine]

I am on Linux as well, the nightlies windows version run fine under wine. Just download, unzip, repeat the copying you did earlier to
the nightly folder, and you should be good to go.

[Tchey]

Hm, why should i use WINE if the game is Linux friendly ?

It's not NOT working, i'm just unsure what version i'm running now.

[R1dO]

Hi Tchey, welcome to the forum

I'm not sure if the PPA's actually use extra version info in their binaries. I do know there are several PPA's out there, could you mention the one that you use?

Have fun sending your rookies down the skyranger ramp

[Tchey]

I'm doing simply the steps from the website :

https://openxcom.org/git-builds/


Ubuntu / Mint
Maintained by Krzysztof “Knapsu” Knapik

Available on a dedicated PPA repository. Please do the following in a terminal:

# sudo add-apt-repository ppa:knapsu/openxcom-beta
# sudo apt-get update
# sudo apt-get install openxcom

[R1dO]

Just checked it for you, it is a nightly build.

Unfortunately it doesn't seem to update regularly (last update 2015-11-16), the good thing is that it also provides the correct yaml-cpp library.

Alternatively you could use the PPA from winterheart. This one is more up to date, but it doesn't seem to provide the required yaml-cpp library.

The default yamnl-cpp library on ubuntu willy and above is known to cause havoc on the openXcom command structure

Hope this helps

[SupSuper]

The version number is meaningless on nightlies. The only way to tell is if you have the new features (eg. TFTD support).

[Arthanor]

The easiest is to install git and compile your own version locally, which allows you to pick whichever commit you would like, and also works for Yankes' OXCE and Meridian's OXCE+.

Unfortunately, the https://ufopaedia.org page seems to be down, but it should be on this page

This has worked well for me, with the added advantage that having the code locally enables you to tweak it as well.