Big educational pack for children: gcompris

[MU]

Homepage:
http://gcompris.net/

I used these packages from Debian:
http://thomas.enix.org/pub/debian/packages/pool/stable/

It has many dependencies, you will need:
http://dotpups.de/dotpups/Programming/p ... sarge1.pup (3 MB)
http://dotpups.de/dotpups/Games/LibSDL1.2-forDoom.pup (439 kb)
and all the Dotpups here:
http://dotpups.de/dotpups/Games/gcompris/

All together they will be over 70 MB extracted, make shure to have minimum 120 MB free Diskspace temporarily free for installation.
If the program will not start, run "gcompris" in a consolewindow, and report errors that will be shown in the console.

The program itself supports several languages.
Install the sounds of your choice from here:
http://dotpups.de/dotpups/Games/gcompri ... rnational/

If you install it in Puppy2, move all files from /root/.etc to /etc.

The gcompris-editor will not work, as it requires Gnome.

Mark

[rerwin]

Thanks, Mark, for making this suite available for Puppy. To get it to work (on my Toshiba laptop), I needed to also install your libartsc dotpup from http://www.dotpups.de/dotpups/Libraries/libartsc.pup.

I may be working with my school district ed tech regarding linux and perhaps utilizing their mothballed PCs. GCompris seems like it might be the "killer app" to get the old stuff into daycare centers, early school grades, and even some kids' homes

I have not yet explored GCompris, but wanted to tell you how I got it working, first..

Richard

[SamSung]

Great Stuff Mark

I am looking forward to the foriegn language files especially those in French any ideas when that might happen.

Thanks for the work on this, I think GCompris is a prettty good edutainment suite.

Sam

[MU]

francais:
http://dotpups.de/dotpups/Games/gcompri ... rnational/
The others follow in the next half hour
Mark

[MU]

added all language-files (sounds):
http://dotpups.de/dotpups/Games/gcompri ... rnational/
Mark

[rerwin]

While exploring this program, I found that it needs gnuchess in order for the chess features to work. I installed that with the DotPup downloader, but it can be downloaded and installed directly from http://www.murga.org/~puppy/download.php?id=6.

To allow GCompris to find gnuchess, I had to make a symlink to it as follows:

mkdir /usr/games
ln -s ~/my-applications/bin/gnuchess /usr/games/gnuchess

Edit: I have installed this on both Puppy 1.0.9 and Puppy2alpha-7may06. No action was needed for Puppy2 regarding copying the ~/.etc folder contents to /etc, as ~/.etc is already a symlink to /etc. Both PuppyLinux installations are option 1 HD with grub boot from HD.

To complete the cosmetics, I set the icon for run-gcompris, by right-clicking that file in the popped-up window containing the /usr/local/gcompris folder, clicking on "Set Icon..." and dragging the gcompris.png file into the box containing "Drop an icon file here", clicking OK. I then dragged the run-gcompris file onto the desktop to put an icon there. Upon a reboot, gcompris also appeared in the "DotPups" menu item.
End edit.

Now, if I could only figure out how to operate the submarine.

Richard

[ecomoney]

Hi, one of the games for simulating bulbs and batteries under science activities needs a library called "gnucap". Thanks

[Boo2themoon]

I am trying to install Gcompris in icepup, 213 based, same as edupup

I have downloaded all the dot pups suggested with the exception of gnuchess and gnucap as I cannot locate these.

Gcompris will not run. I tried in Rxvt and got the following statement.

sh-3.00# gcompris
gcompris: error while loading shared libraries: libgnomecanvas-2.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
sh-3.00#

I have search for it and found this link,
http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/ ... anvas/2.0/

There are a few likely candidates here but which one? and what to do with it?

Also MU said "If you install it in Puppy2, move all files from /root/.etc to /etc"
But rerwin said "No action was needed for Puppy2 regarding copying the ~/.etc folder contents to /etc, as ~/.etc is already a symlink to /etc. Both PuppyLinux installations are option 1 HD with grub boot from HD"

So not really understanding I have not moved anything.

If anyone could point me in the right direction I would appreciate it.

[muggins]

i just dug out a 2.13 cdrom and it definitely has libgnomecanvas-2.so.0, (as a symlink to /usr/lib/libgnomecanvas-2.so.0.1400.0), so either the particular version isn't compatible with gcompris, or your version of /usr/lib/libgnomecanvas-2.so.0 has been wiped somehow.

if you type ls /usr/lib/libgnomecan* in a console, what reponse do you get?

also, if you type ldd gcompris what response? (i've never used gcompris & i'm assuming that's the name of the executable to start the program)

[muggins]

or, in case your libgnomecanvas-2.so.0 has been corrupted somehow, this is off my 2.13 cdrom. just extract to /.

[Boo2themoon]

Thanks for the reply.
Rxtv statement
sh-3.00# ls /usr/libgnomecan*
ls: /usr/libgnomecan*: No such file or directory
sh-3.00# ls /usr/lib/libgnomecan
ls: /usr/lib/libgnomecan: No such file or directory
sh-3.00# ldd gcompris
ldd: ./gcompris: No such file or directory
sh-3.00#
I have download your file (Many thanks) and as soon as I can work out how to extract it I will.

[Boo2themoon]

Ok downloaded TKzip (as it is not included in the stripped out version of Icepup) and extracted to /.

Gcompris still will not run and I get a statement of,
sh-3.00# gcompris
gcompris: error while loading shared libraries: libaudiofile.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
sh-3.00#

So I think I can see wherre this is going. However I have downloaded a different version of libaudiofile as mention by MU. So maybe they are in the wrong place after all.

Thanks again

[raffy]

Muggins, he is using icepup, a stripped-down puplet of 2.13.

[muggins]

hi raffy,

do you know offhand what the actual executable is with gcompris, so that Boo2themoon can run ldd with it? it seems that the libgnomecanvas worked, but it's now missing libaudiofile, so rather than doing it on a piecemeal basis, running ldd would show whether only a few files are missing, & worth the effort to install, or whether there's a whole bunch of missing library files required.

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Boo2themoon,

as i mentioned, i've never used gcompris, but i should have been a bit more explicit. whatever the executable is called, it would probably be installed in either /usr/bin or /usr/local/bin. so to run ldd, it should be either:

ldd /usr/bin/gcompris or,
ldd /usr/local/bin/gcompris

if you still get No such file or directory , then the executable probably isn't called gcompris. if, however, you get not a dynamic executable, then the program is either a script, or it's a compressed executable.

maybe try running it again, as above, and posting back any error messages.

[raffy]

Muggins, I have no idea, although he already reported a response with "gcompris".

Boo2, please use Puppy search to look for "gcompris", and pay attention to its location.

[Boo2themoon]

Hello Chaps
Sorry about my lack of skill, my first time at the terminal.

Anyway I believe the executable is located in /usr/bin/gcompris. using the file manager and choosing properties I get: Type application/x-executable.

Terminal statement.
ldd /usr/bin/gcompris
linux-gate.so.1 => (0xffffe000)
libpython2.3.so.1.0 => /usr/lib/libpython2.3.so.1.0 (0xb7dea000)
libgcompris-1.so.0 => /usr/lib/libgcompris-1.so.0 (0xb7db1000)
libXrandr.so.2 => /usr/X11R7/lib/libXrandr.so.2 (0xb7dad000)
libgnomecanvas-2.so.0 => /usr/lib/libgnomecanvas-2.so.0 (0xb7d84000)
libart_lgpl_2.so.2 => /usr/lib/libart_lgpl_2.so.2 (0xb7d6d000)
libpangoft2-1.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libpangoft2-1.0.so.0 (0xb7d49000)
libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0 (0xb7b03000)
libgdk-x11-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libgdk-x11-2.0.so.0 (0xb7a98000)
libatk-1.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libatk-1.0.so.0 (0xb7a7e000)
libgdk_pixbuf-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libgdk_pixbuf-2.0.so.0 (0xb7a6d000)
libpangoxft-1.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libpangoxft-1.0.so.0 (0xb7a66000)
libpangox-1.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libpangox-1.0.so.0 (0xb7a5c000)
libpango-1.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libpango-1.0.so.0 (0xb7a2a000)
libgobject-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0 (0xb79ff000)
libsqlite3.so.0 => /usr/lib/libsqlite3.so.0 (0xb79ad000)
libxml2.so.2 => /usr/lib/libxml2.so.2 (0xb788c000)
libz.so.1 => /lib/libz.so.1 (0xb787a000)
libpopt.so.0 => /usr/lib/libpopt.so.0 (0xb7873000)
libSDL_mixer-1.2.so.0 => /usr/lib/libSDL_mixer-1.2.so.0 (0xb7803000)
libvorbisfile.so.3 => /usr/lib/libvorbisfile.so.3 (0xb77fb000)
libvorbis.so.0 => /usr/lib/libvorbis.so.0 (0xb77d3000)
libogg.so.0 => /usr/lib/libogg.so.0 (0xb77ce000)
libsmpeg-0.4.so.0 => /usr/lib/libsmpeg-0.4.so.0 (0xb7774000)
libstdc++.so.5 => /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.5 (0xb76bd000)
libSDL-1.2.so.0 => /usr/lib/libSDL-1.2.so.0 (0xb763e000)
libartsc.so.0 => /usr/lib/libartsc.so.0 (0xb7638000)
libgmodule-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libgmodule-2.0.so.0 (0xb7635000)
libgthread-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libgthread-2.0.so.0 (0xb7631000)
libglib-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0 (0xb75be000)
libesd.so.0 => /usr/lib/libesd.so.0 (0xb75b4000)
libaudiofile.so.0 => not found
libaudio.so.2 => /usr/lib/libaudio.so.2 (0xb759a000)
libXt.so.6 => /usr/X11R7/lib/libXt.so.6 (0xb754a000)
libXext.so.6 => /usr/X11R7/lib/libXext.so.6 (0xb753c000)
libvga.so.1 => /usr/lib/libvga.so.1 (0xb74d6000)
libaa.so.1 => /usr/lib/libaa.so.1 (0xb74ba000)
libncurses.so.5 => /lib/libncurses.so.5 (0xb7479000)
libslang.so.1 => /usr/lib/libslang.so.1 (0xb7406000)
libX11.so.6 => /usr/X11R7/lib/libX11.so.6 (0xb7318000)
libasound.so.2 => /usr/lib/libasound.so.2 (0xb7264000)
libm.so.6 => /lib/libm.so.6 (0xb723e000)
libdl.so.2 => /lib/libdl.so.2 (0xb723a000)
libpthread.so.0 => /lib/libpthread.so.0 (0xb7226000)
libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0xb70f3000)
libutil.so.1 => /lib/libutil.so.1 (0xb70ef000)
libXrender.so.1 => /usr/X11R7/lib/libXrender.so.1 (0xb70e5000)
libpangocairo-1.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libpangocairo-1.0.so.0 (0xb70d8000)
libcairo.so.2 => /usr/lib/libcairo.so.2 (0xb708a000)
libfontconfig.so.1 => /usr/X11R7/lib/libfontconfig.so.1 (0xb7054000)
libfreetype.so.6 => /usr/lib/libfreetype.so.6 (0xb6fea000)
libXinerama.so.1 => /usr/X11R7/lib/libXinerama.so.1 (0xb6fe6000)
libXi.so.6 => /usr/X11R7/lib/libXi.so.6 (0xb6fde000)
libXcursor.so.1 => /usr/X11R7/lib/libXcursor.so.1 (0xb6fd5000)
libXfixes.so.3 => /usr/X11R7/lib/libXfixes.so.3 (0xb6fd0000)
libXft.so.2 => /usr/X11R7/lib/libXft.so.2 (0xb6fbe000)
libgcc_s.so.1 => /usr/lib/libgcc_s.so.1 (0xb6fb4000)
libaudiofile.so.0 => not found
libSM.so.6 => /usr/X11R7/lib/libSM.so.6 (0xb6fac000)
libICE.so.6 => /usr/X11R7/lib/libICE.so.6 (0xb6f94000)
libXau.so.6 => /usr/X11R7/lib/libXau.so.6 (0xb6f91000)
libgpm.so.1 => /usr/lib/libgpm.so.1 (0xb6f8a000)
libXdmcp.so.6 => /usr/X11R7/lib/libXdmcp.so.6 (0xb6f85000)
/lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0xb7ef5000)
libpng12.so.0 => /usr/lib/libpng12.so.0 (0xb6f46000)
libexpat.so.1 => /usr/lib/libexpat.so.1 (0xb6f26000)
sh-3.00#

Update
I found a "libaudiofile.so.0.0.2.pup here:
http://puppyfiles.org/dotpupsde/dotpups/Libraries/
I have installed it and it almost works

I now get a very brief Gcompris splash screen and then throws me back to x and I have to type "reboot"

New terminal statement

h-3.00# ldd /usr/bin/gcompris
linux-gate.so.1 => (0xffffe000)
libpython2.3.so.1.0 => /usr/lib/libpython2.3.so.1.0 (0xb7ec0000)
libgcompris-1.so.0 => /usr/lib/libgcompris-1.so.0 (0xb7e87000)
libXrandr.so.2 => /usr/X11R7/lib/libXrandr.so.2 (0xb7e83000)
libgnomecanvas-2.so.0 => /usr/lib/libgnomecanvas-2.so.0 (0xb7e5a000)
libart_lgpl_2.so.2 => /usr/lib/libart_lgpl_2.so.2 (0xb7e43000)
libpangoft2-1.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libpangoft2-1.0.so.0 (0xb7e1f000)
libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0 (0xb7bd9000)
libgdk-x11-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libgdk-x11-2.0.so.0 (0xb7b6e000)
libatk-1.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libatk-1.0.so.0 (0xb7b54000)
libgdk_pixbuf-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libgdk_pixbuf-2.0.so.0 (0xb7b43000)
libpangoxft-1.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libpangoxft-1.0.so.0 (0xb7b3c000)
libpangox-1.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libpangox-1.0.so.0 (0xb7b32000)
libpango-1.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libpango-1.0.so.0 (0xb7b00000)
libgobject-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0 (0xb7ad5000)
libsqlite3.so.0 => /usr/lib/libsqlite3.so.0 (0xb7a83000)
libxml2.so.2 => /usr/lib/libxml2.so.2 (0xb7962000)
libz.so.1 => /lib/libz.so.1 (0xb7950000)
libpopt.so.0 => /usr/lib/libpopt.so.0 (0xb7949000)
libSDL_mixer-1.2.so.0 => /usr/lib/libSDL_mixer-1.2.so.0 (0xb78d9000)
libvorbisfile.so.3 => /usr/lib/libvorbisfile.so.3 (0xb78d1000)
libvorbis.so.0 => /usr/lib/libvorbis.so.0 (0xb78a9000)
libogg.so.0 => /usr/lib/libogg.so.0 (0xb78a4000)
libsmpeg-0.4.so.0 => /usr/lib/libsmpeg-0.4.so.0 (0xb784a000)
libstdc++.so.5 => /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.5 (0xb7793000)
libSDL-1.2.so.0 => /usr/lib/libSDL-1.2.so.0 (0xb7714000)
libartsc.so.0 => /usr/lib/libartsc.so.0 (0xb770e000)
libgmodule-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libgmodule-2.0.so.0 (0xb770b000)
libgthread-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libgthread-2.0.so.0 (0xb7707000)
libglib-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0 (0xb7694000)
libesd.so.0 => /usr/lib/libesd.so.0 (0xb768a000)
libaudiofile.so.0 => /usr/lib/libaudiofile.so.0 (0xb7667000)
libaudio.so.2 => /usr/lib/libaudio.so.2 (0xb7652000)
libXt.so.6 => /usr/X11R7/lib/libXt.so.6 (0xb7602000)
libXext.so.6 => /usr/X11R7/lib/libXext.so.6 (0xb75f4000)
libvga.so.1 => /usr/lib/libvga.so.1 (0xb758e000)
libaa.so.1 => /usr/lib/libaa.so.1 (0xb7572000)
libncurses.so.5 => /lib/libncurses.so.5 (0xb7531000)
libslang.so.1 => /usr/lib/libslang.so.1 (0xb74be000)
libX11.so.6 => /usr/X11R7/lib/libX11.so.6 (0xb73d0000)
libasound.so.2 => /usr/lib/libasound.so.2 (0xb731c000)
libm.so.6 => /lib/libm.so.6 (0xb72f6000)
libdl.so.2 => /lib/libdl.so.2 (0xb72f2000)
libpthread.so.0 => /lib/libpthread.so.0 (0xb72de000)
libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0xb71ab000)
libutil.so.1 => /lib/libutil.so.1 (0xb71a7000)
libXrender.so.1 => /usr/X11R7/lib/libXrender.so.1 (0xb719d000)
libpangocairo-1.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libpangocairo-1.0.so.0 (0xb7190000)
libcairo.so.2 => /usr/lib/libcairo.so.2 (0xb7142000)
libfontconfig.so.1 => /usr/X11R7/lib/libfontconfig.so.1 (0xb710c000)
libfreetype.so.6 => /usr/lib/libfreetype.so.6 (0xb70a2000)
libXinerama.so.1 => /usr/X11R7/lib/libXinerama.so.1 (0xb709e000)
libXi.so.6 => /usr/X11R7/lib/libXi.so.6 (0xb7096000)
libXcursor.so.1 => /usr/X11R7/lib/libXcursor.so.1 (0xb708d000)
libXfixes.so.3 => /usr/X11R7/lib/libXfixes.so.3 (0xb7088000)
libXft.so.2 => /usr/X11R7/lib/libXft.so.2 (0xb7076000)
sh-3.00#

Apologise for this massive post. Not really sure what to do now as it seems like video card problems, yes?

Thanks again

Boo

[raffy]

It is looking for libaudiofile.so.0 but what you have installed must be libaudiofile.so.0.0.2 in /usr/lib (please verify this name first before you do the instruction below). Open a terminal while in /usr/lib and command in console:

ln -s libaudiofile.so.0.0.2 libaudiofile.so.0

Hopefully that will take care of the error.

[Boo2themoon]

Hi Raffy,
Here is what I did.
Using the file manager I went to /usr/lib right mouse clicked and choose "open terminal here" Correct?

I got this statement:
sh-3.00# ln -s libaudiofile.so.0.0.2 libaudiofile.so.0
ln: `libaudiofile.so.0': File exists
sh-3.00#

I tried to start Gcompris from the dotpup menu but got the same results. Splash screen then reboot.



Thanks

Boo

[muggins]

having to reboot doesn't sound good. i've no idea what's happening there? where did the libaudiofile.so.0 come from?

just in case i've attached it from the 2,.13 cdrom, so you can try replacing it to see if you what results you get.

also, if you type gcompris in a console window, & it dies, does it leave any error messages?

[Boo2themoon]

Hello muggins
I will try this when I get home.
Thanks for the Help
Boo