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vssetup missing

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This exact same question has been asked here: https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?t=90280 and here: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2096383, but nobody has provided an answer that works in 2016.

I downloaded VegaStrike from here: https://sourceforge.net/projects/vegast ... ike/0.5.1/
Am using Ubuntu 14.04, 64 bit.

I downloaded vegastrike-data-0.5.1.r1 and ran sudo sh vsinstall.sh
This is the output:

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                     ==== VEGA STRIKE 0.5.0 ====


I am installing 64-bit binaries.

This script needs your password to link the following commands 
 into '/usr/bin': vegastrike vegaserver vssetup mesher

Do you wish to grant administrator access to install these binaries?
Type yes or no: yes
Installation successful!

Do you want to run 'vssetup'? [yes]/no? yes
vsinstall.sh: 108: vsinstall.sh: vssetup: not found
Settings should now be configured.

Type 'vegastrike' at a terminal to play VS!  Press any key to exit.
Typing vegastrike at the terminal resulted in vegastrike: command not found. The file is not present in /usr/bin/ either.
Why is vssetup not present? Is it to be downloaded separately? In the download page, there is a VSSetupBeta2.exe file present, but since it's exe and the name is not vssetup, I assume it is not for Linux.

Could you please help with info on how to install and where I can get vssetup?
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Re: vssetup missing

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Hi Nav since you are using Ubuntu you should get better results by using the .deb files from http://www.playdeb.net/updates/ubuntu/1 ... vegastrike as I mentioned the sourceforge files have not been touched for years so i'm not surprised that there are issues with new Linux distro's the getdeb ones are maintained though :) Let me know how it goes please.

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Re: vssetup missing

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Thank you loki1950, but opening the link http://www.playdeb.net/install/vegastri ... eb3~trusty made Ubuntu ask me if I'd like to open it with Ubuntu Software Center. I chose to, and when Ubuntu Software Center opened up, it said "Not found. There isn't a software package called 'vegastrike' in your current software sources".
I guess that's why even the apt-get install command mentioned on many sites didn't work.
Anything else I could try? I tried building from source, but configure tells me that I don't have Python installed, even though I do.

ps: If the devs know that the sourceforge versions don't work, then it'd be nice if it is taken down, coz otherwise people would unnecessarily download it and hope that it works. I was led to the sourceforge page from VegaStrike's wiki.
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Ok got it. Had to configure the repository manually:
Go to System-Administration-Software Sources, Third-Party Software tab, Add:
deb http://archive.getdeb.net/ubuntu trusty-getdeb games

Add the repository GPG key, open a terminal window and type:
wget -q -O- http://archive.getdeb.net/getdeb-archive.key | sudo apt-key add -

Now it's downloading, but didn't download completely and failed. I hope there are no permanent download issues. Trying again...
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Download failed again halfway through. I remember the download was happening through some university's FTP site which they used as a mirror for open source projects.

I've faced this kind of a download problem once while downloading Titan (the graph database). I wrote to them and they figured that their site needed to be equipped with some kind of header information so that large file downloads wouldn't fail in-between.

I hope VegaStrike's files would also be available through either a torrent or some other easily downloadable way.

Meanwhile, I hope the old, redundant download pages could be removed.
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Meanwhile, I hope the old, redundant download pages could be removed.
Would love to but I do not have the passwords to do so and development has actually moved to github.

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Re: vssetup missing

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My choice as of now has been forced into not downloading VegaStrike, because the download doesn't complete. Thanks for the help though :-)
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You could get the source code tarball and build vssetup then move it to /usr/bin it's fairly trivial using cmake. Or I have a copy of it that I can send you it's only 49.5kB and as admin I do have access to you e-mail address.

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