Frozen Bubbles will not start-(solved)

[rburkartjo]

this has happened before trying to find a solution. i installed the game frozen -bubbles and all dependencies have been installed according to ppm.icon shows up but when click nothing. any fix tks

[rburkartjo]

again dont care about this game but if i could figure out to fix than could trouble shoot when it happens again with another program

[mikewalsh]

@rburkartjo :-

What Puppy are we talking about, exactly? You need to be quite precise with this, I'm afraid, 'cos there's so many spins/re-spins/Puppies/Puplets out there.....and they're all just slightly different.

Where did you get Frozen Bubbles from? PPM? Pet package, or SFS? Was it a .deb package.....if so, where did you obtain it?

(I think I know what the problem will be, TBH, but more info is needed ATM. All helps to confirm.)

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You're in the same position I was in some 6 years ago. Having to ask Q's about what seem simple, obvious points.....because many things about Puppy aren't always as obvious as you might expect. Our Pup is unique in operation, and some stuff is specific to Puppy (which you won't find anywhere else).

Can seem frustrating in the early stages, but Pup's well worth persevering with. Sooner or later, you'll get one of those "light-bulb moments".....and a lot of things will suddenly start to make sense at long last..!

Mike.

[mikewalsh]

Take a look at the .desktop file for Frozen Bubbles in /usr/share/applications. Open it up with Geany, and take a look at the 'Exec=' line.

Does it have

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%u

....in there somewhere? If so, get rid of it; delete that bit of the Exec line, save & close Geany. Open a terminal & run

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fixmenus

.....followed by re-starting "X" (this updates the Menu, and makes sure the alteration you've just made to the Menu entry is now being acted upon.)

What happens?

Mike.

[rburkartjo]

first running puppy 9.5 and install from ppm
output from geany
[Desktop Entry]
Name=Frozen-Bubble
Comment=Pop out the bubbles!
Exec=frozen-bubble
Icon=frozen-bubble.xpm
Terminal=false
X-MultipleArgs=false
Type=Application
Categories=X-Fun
Keywords=game;bubbles;pop;

mike been using linux for about 10 years and finally putting in the effort to master puppy/tks

[mikewalsh]

@rburkartjo :-

Hm. Looks like I may be out of my depth on this one, mate.

Frozen Bubble is a Perl-based app, from the look of things. Now, I've tried installing it in Fossapup myself.....only to find out there's all sorts of Perl-related stuff missing from my system. I don't even know where to start looking to locate this stuff; sc0ttman's pkg-cli, for all that it gives Puppy access to the Synaptic-style package management of mainstream distros, is proving to be of no help to me here, because I don't even know what it IS that I'm looking for.

I can appreciate your wanting to master Puppy. She's not SO different to most other distros, but there's just enough small differences that even Linux veterans come unstuck when trying her out. Like the lack of a full Bash compliment of commands; Pup's Busybox implementation uses a limited subset of those standard commands. You CAN install 'em if you want them, but they will need to be manually added-in to the system.

This is one thing that puts a lot of people off. Long-term Linux users are used to doing everything by terminal; Pup's a lot more 'hands-on'. We jump into the file-system, and physically pull things about/re-name/move/sym-link, etc, etc. This doesn't go down well with folks who've spent years getting used to the "official" way of doing things!

But don't bail out on us. For all her "quirky" mannerisms, and 'off-the-wall' ways of doing things, she's great fun once you've got the hang of her. I'll just have to acknowledge my limitations on this one.....though I daresay someone else will be able to help out here.

Mike.

[rburkartjo]

tks will get thread open
there is an answer out there

[rockedge]

cpanminus will be your friend. Run Bubbles and identify through error messages which PERL modules/libraries are missing. They will look like Sys::Mmap or Sys/Mmap (for example) in the error messages

Meanwhile make sure you have the Devx sfs file loaded!
Next install cpanminus from a terminal:

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cpan App::cpanminus

Then to add a module identified as missing, in a terminal (for example):

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cpanm Sys::Mmap

Also PERL components can be installed via the PPM or Pkg.

It is actually easy to do once one gets the hang of finding which modules are missing.

[rockedge]

I am going to see if I can get Frozen Bubble going....

[666philb]

try installing the devx.sfs

[rburkartjo]

rock i get this output
root# cpanm Sys::Mmap
Can't locate CPAN/Meta/Requirements.pm in @INC (you may need to install the CPAN::Meta::Requirements module) (@INC contains: /etc/perl /usr/local/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/perl/5.30.0 /usr/local/share/perl/5.30.0 /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/perl5/5.30 /usr/share/perl5 /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/perl/5.30 /usr/share/perl/5.30 /usr/local/lib/site_perl /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/perl-base) at /usr/share/perl5/App/cpanminus/Dependency.pm line 3.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/share/perl5/App/cpanminus/Dependency.pm line 3.
Compilation failed in require at /usr/share/perl5/App/cpanminus/script.pm line 6.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/share/perl5/App/cpanminus/script.pm line 6.
Compilation failed in require at /usr/bin/cpanm line 20.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/bin/cpanm line 20.

[mikewalsh]

@rockedge / @666philb :-

Y'see, that's the bit that was throwing ME out. What is that

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@INC

.....thing that keeps popping up? I had it 3 times through trying to troubleshoot this for rburkartjo, and, well; to say I was completely "lost" with it was an understatement. I assume it's summat to do with Perl, yes?

Mike.

[666philb]

you just need to install the devx for the missing perl stuff.

quickpet>>>useful>>devx

[rburkartjo]

666 tks that did the trick