Packaged Second Life RPMS/Deb available

Hi came across packaged versions of SecondLife available from Suse's Build Farm

The following distros have their own YUM repositories.
Debian Etch
Fedora 7
Fedora 6
SUSE Linux 10.1
openSUSE 10.2

Go to http://software.opensuse.org/download/home:/marvin24/ and pick your distro repository.

For me on OpenSuse 10.2 I added the repository by executing

zypper sa http://software.opensuse.org/download/home:/marvin24/openSUSE_10.2/ "Second Life"

and then install the packages through your software manager.

And btw thanks to "Marvin", they do really work

cheers,
Quilon

sweet!

but how up to date are these kept?

its the latest version.

I have never been able to get my head around creating a Debian sources.list line for non-official repositories. I tried a few combinations but can't work it out. Anyone else know?

now im MR RPM when it comes down to stuff that just wont compile but maby im missing something here, cause the client is a simple uncompress and run application, theres noting to configure make compile

you just uncompress it and ./ it

care to enlighten me?

except it just doesn't work for everyone.

It's easy actually.

Just open (as root) the file /etc/apt/sources.list and add the line for the repository at the end of that file. Save the file and then apt-get update. After that you can install secondlife with apt-get install.

Good luck!

Follow-up to the last entry I did here:

The deb repo seems not to be working. I added this line to sources.list:

deb http://software.opensuse.org/download/home:/marvin24/Debian_Etch/ ./

This gives the error:

Failed to fetch http://software.opensuse.org/download/home:/marvin24/Debian_Etch/./Packages.gz 302 Found

The file Packages.gz seems not to be right. It looks empty to me.

Maybe this can be corrected?

Yes, I know how to edit sources.list, I just can't get the actual debource line right unless the site I am accessing provides an example or is set up with an equivalent directory structure to official repositories.

Mmm you don't add the to it

deb http://software.opensuse.org/download/home:/marvin24/Debian_Etch/./Packages.gz

I get a "package secondlife-artwork fails integrity check" and if I install by hand I get a segmentation fault just before the logon screen. SuSE 10.2 x86_64 on a dual core with 1GB RAM and Nvidia video card, a reasonably standard setup

I have (essentially) the same setup and pretty much the same problems (the program only works from a terminal, and the segmentation fault occurs when I try to log in). It looks like Marvin's stuff isn't quite ready for primetime.

Actually I did not add the part to the sources.list. The forum software here added it. So the package.gz is still an empty file and installing the deb is not working.

Isn't this a bit superfluous? I would think it is a lot easier to download the tarball and just:
tar -jxvf <SL.package>.bz2
Which results in a totally factory standard installation.


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In a perfect world it would surely be, Yasmin. Unfortunately, as I detailed in a different thread, there seems to be some sort of compatibility issue between the standard tarball and something in SuSE 10.2 (curl or XML libraries, it would appear to a semi-competent eye like mine) which causes it to be unable to log in

While that does, indeed, result in a totally factory installation that works, I want to try a version made explicitly for for my processor (64-bit). I have been using SL's stock package, but I want to see if a 64-bit program would work better.