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Unfortunately I think that model of GPU only does OpenGL 2.1, but Pioneer requires 3.1 so you might not be able to run it on that machine. Ah.......balls.  Thanks for your asistance though - new PC soon and I'll try again. Back to OOlite for me.

<r>Ah good ok so you have a laptop?This one http://www.toshiba.co.uk/discontinued-products/satellite-l350-170/?[/url] Do you have the latest drivers for it?It should have created those files I was talking about before, in the hidden pioneer folder within your home folder, the one called "opengl.txt ...

<r>Right.....we have progress <E>:)</E> It now boots A BIT System Name: LinuxHost Name: paul-Satellite-L350Release(Kernel) Version: 3.13.0-83-genericKernel Build Timestamp: #127-Ubuntu SMP Fri Mar 11 00:26:47 UTC 2016Machine Arch: i686Domain Name: (none)SDL Version 2.0.3Failed to set video mode ...

Ah I think that was answered in this post: http://spacesimcentral.com/ssc/topic/5456-pioneer-does-not-run-under-kubuntu-1404/?p=57476[/url] it now ! Fingers crossed.

I've prodded our IRC channel to see if anyone has any idea but I'm not sure what the issue might be right now. Thank you.

<t>Right.....ive tried executing it from terminal in the correct directory using ./pioneer. It spat out paul@paul-Satellite-L350:~/Desktop/pioneer/pioneer-20160316-linux32$ ./pioneer./pioneer: /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libstdc++.so.6: version `CXXABI_1.3.8' not found (required by ./pioneer)./pioneer ...

as in within the terminal you're literally just typing "./pioneer" :)Its in a pioneer directory I created on desktop

I dunno then, you're running it like ./pioneer yes?you might have to explain what that means mate - sorry.

<r>Ok if you right click on the "pioneer" programa nd open properties, in the Permissions tab is it set to allow executing it as a program? or from the terminal do and see what permissions it has, hopefully they'll be something like "-rwxr-xr-x" If it's not then run "chmod 777 pioneer" and give it ...

I extracted it using the automatic extraction tool within ubuntu. Yeah, all those files are in the folder - which is encouraging, thank you for your help so far

I've tried running it from terminal and it just said " no command 'pioneer' found "pioneer " is in yellow ? If that means anything ?

<t>Hello everyone, I'm trying to get Pioneer running on my ubuntu machine, downloaded the pre-build files from the website and extracted them. How do I actually get the game to run ?? I get a pioneer file but clicking on it does nothing ? I suspect I've made a silly mistake, but I thought it would ...