Ubuntu
bzflag package

My shots do not kill others

Bug #3610 reported by Ezequiel Martín Cámara on 2005-10-27

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	bzflag (Ubuntu)	Fix Released	Medium	Motu Games Team

Bug Description

After upgrading to client 2.0.2.20050318ubuntu2, and connecting to the usual internet game servers, my shots do not kill other players. I can be killed by my shots and other player's shots.

The bug is the same as this one reported in Debian: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=323815 and probably has the same solution, namely upgrading to version 2.0.4 of the client.

Daniel Holbach (dholbach) on 2005-10-27

Changed in bzflag:
assignee:	nobody → motu
assignee:	motu → motugames

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Ezequiel Martín Cámara (ezequiel-martin-camara) wrote on 2005-10-29:

A temporary workaround to this bug is to install Debian's BZFlag 2.0.4.

The libraries to install, from an actualized Breezy, are:

Download (substituting by your favourite Debian mirror if you want), install with

sudo dpkg -i *.deb

And enjoy the bliss of killing other tanks once again! But leave those of your same color in peace please.

That is all I can do. Someone port BZFlag 2.0.4 to Ubuntu please. I do not enjoy installing alien libstdc++ libraries. Thanks.

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Ezequiel Martín Cámara (ezequiel-martin-camara) wrote on 2005-10-31:

UPDATE ON ABOVE FIX:

As I feared, messing up with Debian packages has had terrible consequences. Synaptic has uninstalled most of my packages, including all of Gnome, during a routine upgrade. Apply the above instructions at your own peril, and be very careful about apt-get and synaptic afterwards. See you in the battlefields.

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Ezequiel Martín Cámara (ezequiel-martin-camara) wrote on 2005-11-04:

NEW FIX:

I have built a bzflag package compiled against Breezy. I have tried it and it seems to work right. Try it as a replacement while this is resolved by people more knowledgeable than me (this is the first .deb I have ever built; I did it with checkinstall).

Finally Ubuntu players can be seen in the battlefields!

Today is a good day to die!

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Ezequiel Martín Cámara (ezequiel-martin-camara) wrote on 2005-11-04: BZFlag 2.0.4 for Ubuntu Breezy