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[Reascr]

I know I've done it right, but when I try to launch it with ./df I get "Syntax Error: "(" unexpected" and when I do just "df" I get what I assume are my drives and folders. Please not that I'm so new to Linux and Ubuntu, I got it yesterday (On my shitty Chromebook)

Thanks for any help, I need to have stuff on this for my trips, and I think Dwarf Fortress is a good one.

[greycat]

Corrupted download, possibly?

[itisnotlogical]

Have you tried just clicking the 'DF' script in the folder?

[glopso]

Have you tried just clicking the 'DF' script in the folder?

That would do almost exactly the same thing, except that nothing is output to a terminal

[glopso]

Have you tried just clicking the 'DF' script in the folder?

That would do almost exactly the same thing, except that nothing is output to a terminal

EDIT: df (without the ./ and not in the dwarf fortress directory) is a utility that tells you how much free space you have, run "man df" for more info

EDIT2: This was meant to be and edit and not quoting myself, sorry

[FutureSailor]

With 2012 I was able to get it to work on lubuntu by unpacking the 32 bit libraries it wanted from the debian repositories, then copying the appropriate .so files into df_linux/libs.

With 2014, I'm not sure if this works or not, because I just installed ia32-libs in synaptic and it worked out of the box.

Protip: you might want to add something like this to your .bashrc:

alias dwarf2012="/home/mike/dwarfFortress/df/df_linux/dfhack"
alias dwarf="/home/mike/dwarfFortress/df2014/df_linux/df"

save it, open a new terminal, and type dwarf to launch.

EDIT: To be more precise, I assume you are running a 64 bit kernel? You can check this with uname -a, if you see an x86_64 it means you're running in 64 bit. What steps did you take to make the 32 bit libraries work? Undoing those steps and installing the package ia32-lib might be all you need to do. If you still get that syntax error instead of a "can't find somelibrary.so" message then I don't know what to tell you.

[greycat]

As far as I know, you shouldn't get "Syntax Error: "(" unexpected" from a 32/64-bit library conflict.  In those cases, you should get errors like "libfoobar.so.3 not found".

The syntax error sounds like the kind of message I would expect from a shell (or other interpreter) reading a mangled script.  Or the wrong shell being invoked to read the script.  The ./df script that ships with Dwarf Fortress is extremely standard /bin/sh code (with one annoying bug that I would love to see fixed...).  As long as the #!/bin/sh line at the top is intact, and as long as the /bin/sh symlink on your system actually points to a valid POSIX-style shell (dash, or bash, or ksh, or even zsh) it ought to work.  That's why I guessed that the script might have become corrupted somehow.

The annoying bug in the ./df script is the $* on the last line.  That should be "$@" (with the quotes), or it won't handle arguments with spaces.  That bug has been in the script for years, and I always just fix it myself after installation, right before editing the data/init/ files.

[Slyjoker87]

I just tried this on a fresh ubuntu 64-bit install. DF wont run out of the box because you need the 32-bit libraries. Try running ldd on /libs/Dwarf_Fortress and see if you are missing any.

EDIT: DF runs after I installed all of the missing libraries.