Vega Strike Forums

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: 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?

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.

Enjoy the Choice

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.

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...

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.

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.

Enjoy the Choice

My choice as of now has been forced into not downloading VegaStrike, because the download doesn't complete. Thanks for the help though

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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