FOF, Linux - LINUX

[pedrotski]

I cant seem to get this app running in linux. What do i have to do?

[pedrotski]

root@pedrotski-linux:/home/pedrotski# '/home/pedrotski/Desktop/FretsOnFire/FretsOnFire.bin'
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/home/skyostil/src/cx_Freeze-3.0.3/initscripts/Console.py", line 27, in ?
File "src/FretsOnFire.py", line 27, in ?
File "src/GameEngine.py", line 34, in ?
File "src/Data.py", line 25, in ?
File "src/Svg.py", line 39, in ?
File "src/Log.py", line 55, in <lambda>
File "src/Log.py", line 50, in log
LookupError: unknown encoding: iso-8859-1
root@pedrotski-linux:/home/pedrotski#

[Ozzi]

Try start it without .bin

/home/pedrotski/Desktop/FretsOnFire/FretsOnFire

[pedrotski]

That doesn't work. I have tried it heaps.

[Hellmark]

I had this problem too, I found out that it was because it wants you to execute it from within the directory that frets on fire is at. so cd into the directory that has FoF, and run "FretsOnFire" (no .bin).

[3D_geek]

I have the exact same problem - but it doesn't matter which directory I run from. Same set of messages:

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fof/FretsOnFire> ./FretsOnFire
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/skyostil/src/cx_Freeze-3.0.3/initscripts/Console.py", line 27, in ?
  File "src/FretsOnFire.py", line 27, in ?
  File "src/GameEngine.py", line 34, in ?
  File "src/Data.py", line 25, in ?
  File "src/Svg.py", line 39, in ?
  File "src/Log.py", line 55, in <lambda>
  File "src/Log.py", line 50, in log
LookupError: unknown encoding: iso-8859-1


Furthermore, I tried to download the sources from the FoF homepage with the vague idea of trying to find the problem myself - but the gzipped tarball is actually a gzip of an HTML file of some kind - no sourcecode in sight. The ZIP file comes up with some kind of 404 error in some non-english language that I don't recognise.

Help?!

[dOb]

Furthermore, I tried to download the sources from the FoF homepage with the vague idea of trying to find the problem myself - but the gzipped tarball is actually a gzip of an HTML file of some kind - no sourcecode in sight. The ZIP file comes up with some kind of 404 error in some non-english language that I don't recognise.

Download it from the SourceForge project page.

[Calamitous]

I'm having this exact problem as well (LookupError: unknown encoding: iso-8859-1). I'm running PCLinuxOS (a debian derivative).

[dmatrix7]

Works great out of the box on my Ubuntu Edgy and Feisty rigs.

Seems like a possible locale problem or possibly a python package is missing.

[wiggin]

Hi all,

I have the exact same problem and it seems that there is a lot of missin python packages.

The only thing I found was that in rder to make it..work, Python has to be able to decode unicode types (ISO)

I tried to make default ISO in etc/python/2.x/site.py but it doesn't seem to work neither.. I just feel stuck !

Has anybody found a way to solve this ?

[wiggin]

Welle well,

Solved it with another lauching method and after installing python-pygame :

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sh FretsOnFire

[Fallen-Angel]

Personally i can launch it, but in 90% of the time, when i start a "song"
the screen keep showing "according guitare" and the song never starts :s
But sometimes it does work and i can play.
Do you know this problem ?
i am under linux, i get the binary package from the sourceforge web site.

[Maka]

This is how I solved the "LookupError: unknown encoding: iso-8859-1" problem in Ubuntu Edgy:

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$ locale

gave me

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...
LANGUAGE=fi_FI:fi:en_GB:en
...

Next

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$ export LANGUAGE=fi_FI.ISO-8859-1:fi:en_GB:en

That's it!

So, basically, try "export LANGUAGE=x.ISO-8859-1:y:z", where x,y and z are the values of your environment variable LANGUAGE. Remember to write down the original values to be able to back up, if something goes wrong or if this solution just doesn't work or if this breaks something else.

I found the solution here. There is also some information about the bug. It seems that it's Python's, not FoF's bug.

Be careful when editing the environment variables. I won't be responsible if you suddenly find your linux box speaking zulu! :p

[bellerophon]

Hmmm, didn't work for me.
One note however: There is no need to be careful, since the exporting of an environment variable using export will not be permanent. This means, after restarting your shell, the values assigned to the variables will be lost.
If you want to keep them permanently, put the export command into your ~/.bashrc, so the value will be assigned any time you start your bash (or any other shell of your personal taste for which there might be another configuration script than the bashrc).

Or, even better, do a non-permanent change which remains permanent for FretsOnFire. Edit FretsOnFire using nano (in the FoF dir: nano FretsOnFire) or vim or somehting else and add the line containing your desired locale:

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#!/bin/sh
export LANGUAGE=de_AT.iso-8859-1:de
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$(dirname $0)
exec ./FretsOnFire.bin $@

[Mulletman262]

i used these commands in FedoraCore6 to install the program, yet it still will not install:

cd /home/zandak/Desktop/
tar -zxvf FretsOnFire-1.2.451-linux.tar.gz


./configure
make
make install