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 Home  Forums Forum Index Neverwinter Nights NWN 1: Linux Version - General Discussion Warning: Omissions in 1.64 Linux update files
NWN 1: Linux Version - General Discussion
Eyrdan
Joined: 05 Dec 2002
From: Sainte-Foy, QC, Canada |
 Posted: Saturday, 09 October 2004 06:02PM |
While working on updating my valid installation guide's md5sums, I noticed some omissions between the 1.64 and the 1.62 updates, which got me somewhat concerned. Users who update from 1.62 won't be affected, but new installations that upgrade from fresh installations will be left with somewhat outdated files. The exact impact is yet to be evaluated, but here is the list of files for those concerned.
For vanilla NWN installations:
- ./fixinstall - this one might be for the best, as the one found in the previous 1.29-to-1.62 update was actually less adequate for vanilla NWN as the one found in the nwclient129.tar.gz (which had patch.key listed as a required file, while the one in the update didn't)
- ./nwm/Chapter1E.nwm
- ./nwm/Chapter4.nwm
For SoU installations:
- ./fixinstall - this one might be for the best, as the one found in the previous 1.30-to-1.62 update was actually less adequate for SoU as the one found in the Data_Linux.zip file found on the SoU CD (which had xp1.key listed as a required file, while the one in the update didn't)
- ./nwm/Chapter1E.nwm
- ./nwm/Chapter4.nwm
- ./nwm/XP1-Chapter 1.nwm
- ./nwm/XP1-Chapter 2.nwm
- ./nwm/XP1-Interlude.nwm
For the Chapter1E.nwm and Chapter4.nwm files, previously everyone at 1.62 would have identical files (identical to the ones found in the nwclienthotu.tar.gz file of the people with HotU). Now while this will still be true for those who updated from 1.62 to 1.64, fresh installations will be stuck with old versions (1.29 versions for vanilla installations, 1.30/original-SoU versions for SoU installations). BTW, I verified the file contents, and the 1.62 versions did seem to include bug fixes, which fresh 1.64 installations won't have.
Similar for the XP1-*.nwm files, previously people who had updated using the 1.30-to-162 SoU update after installation would have recieved another version of these files in the update (which is why I always recommended that people update SoU before installing HotU, as these new versions are not found in the HotU updates). I didn't go through the trouble of doing a diff on these since my previous diff on the OC modules convinced me that there was an unwanted omission.
Anyway, until we get this cleared up, I won't be updating my md5sums as I have no way of knowing what a proper installation should be like, since now it appears that the history of your updates affect the final result, not just your current version (must be hellish for BioWare to debug NWN in such a setup, when asking users to update to latest doesn't mean they have the same version you do).
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Eyrdan
Joined: 05 Dec 2002
From: Sainte-Foy, QC, Canada |
Posted: Saturday, 09 October 2004 06:03PM |
Side note here, this doesn't affect HotU installations, those already have the most recent version of these files I have on record since they are told to install the nwclienthotu.tar.gz tarball in their installation instructions.
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Eyrdan
Joined: 05 Dec 2002
From: Sainte-Foy, QC, Canada |
Posted: Thursday, 28 October 2004 05:02PM |
Ok updated the md5sums in my valid installation guide with instructions to fetch the missing files from the 1.62 update.
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raflmoe
Game Owner
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NWN: SoU
NWN: HotU
Mass Effect PC
Joined: 25 Jun 2002
From: Oslo, Norway |
Posted: Tuesday, 09 November 2004 04:39PM |
Hi!
I'm about to make en ebuild (for Gentoo Linux) and install
NWN on my computer, but I can't find the instructions you
mentioned about updating from 1.29 to 1.64. Especially
the ones that should guide me through which files I should
fetch after I've updated to 1.64 to complete the update.
The only guide I found was the following, from the sticky
thread in (this) Linux NWN forum: http://nwn.bioware.com/downloads/linuxclient.html
Care to elaborate on the whereabouts of these instructions?
Thanks for the help so far! 
- Rafael Moe | |
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Eyrdan
Joined: 05 Dec 2002
From: Sainte-Foy, QC, Canada |
Posted: Tuesday, 09 November 2004 05:15PM |
I'm refering to the "read before posting technical questions" sticky. In it I list md5sums for the main (critical) files of a valid NWN installation, and below each md5sum list, I specify where to get the proper files from if missing/corrupt.
Make sure you give me the Gentoo bug ID number for the submitted ebuild, I use Gentoo too so I'll be happy to help validate/test it.
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Eyrdan
Joined: 05 Dec 2002
From: Sainte-Foy, QC, Canada |
Posted: Tuesday, 09 November 2004 06:49PM |
Uhm found it, Bug 66932... I'll keep in touch via it's comment thread.
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"Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning". - Rich Cook | |
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