The tar file with the binaries has permissions set appropriately for a single user running from his or her home directory.
Stepmania song packs dance pad driver#
If you’re running under KDE and the arrows don’t animate smoothly or there are gtk or sound driver issues, try running under a different window manager such as Xfce. It’s not currently in the Ubuntu repositories.ģ) Go to your Stepmania directory and run it against the stepmania binary.Īny missing 32 bit libraries will be identified, downloaded and installed. The utility in question has been improved since this was written and I only had to do the following:ġ) Download the b package.
Finally, I stumbled across this post with instructions for getting all the 32-bit dependencies installed. Packages: libgl1-mesa-dev libglu1-mesa-dev libsdl1.2-dev liblua50-dev libvorbis-dev libmad0-devĬompiling the Stepmania 4.0 version got me a lot farther, but still failed. If you want to try compiling, here are the prerequisites I found: I made some progress in trying to get it to compile on my machine, but I was unable to apply one of the patches (which I’ve lost the link to anyway). This will appear as an error while loading shared libraries or a mysterious bash error about “no such file” even though it obviously exists with correct permissions. The problem is that the Linux binaries supplied on the Stepmania site are compiled using 32-bit libraries. Fortunately, I found somebody who has one. Stepmania on 64-bit Linux requires a brain. Installing it on 32-bit Linux is probably a no brainer, but I didn’t try. Installing it on Windows was a no-brainer. I wanted to be able to run Stepmania on our always-on, always hooked up HTPC. We’ve enjoyed playing it using our Dell laptop hooked up to the TV and into the stereo receiver for over a year now. Stepmania is an open source clone of the popular video game Dance Dance Revolution.