MegaGlest: Could not find the program 'megaglest'

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#1

Hi,

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Installed MegaGlest from Official Repositories, trying to run the game gives mentioned error.

# cat /usr/share/applications/megaglest.desktop
[Desktop Entry]
Categories=Game;StrategyGame;
Comment=A real time strategy game.
Name=MegaGlest
Icon=megaglest
Exec=megaglest
Terminal=false
Type=Application
Keywords=realtime;strategy;game;

# find / -iname 'megag*'
/var/cache/pacman/pkg/megaglest-data-3.13.0-2-any.pkg.tar.xz
/var/lib/pacman/local/megaglest-data-3.13.0-2
/usr/share/pixmaps/megaglest.xpm
/usr/share/pixmaps/megaglest.png
/usr/share/applications/megaglest_g3dviewer.desktop
/usr/share/applications/megaglest_editor.desktop
/usr/share/applications/megaglest.desktop
/usr/share/app-info/icons/archlinux-arch-community/64x64/megaglest-data_megaglest.png
/usr/share/menu/megaglest
/usr/share/megaglest
/usr/share/licenses/megaglest-data
/usr/share/appdata/megaglest_editor.appdata.xml
/usr/share/appdata/megaglest.appdata.xml
find: ‘/run/user/1000/doc’: Permission denied
find: ‘/run/user/1000/gvfs’: Permission denied

There seems to be no executable in any bin/sbin.

Ideas?

Thanks

#2
There should be 
pkgfile -l megaglest
community/megaglest     /usr/
community/megaglest     /usr/bin/
community/megaglest     /usr/bin/megaglest
community/megaglest     /usr/bin/megaglest_editor
community/megaglest     /usr/bin/megaglest_g3dviewer
community/megaglest     /usr/share/
community/megaglest     /usr/share/megaglest/
community/megaglest     /usr/share/megaglest/editor.ico
community/megaglest     /usr/share/megaglest/g3dviewer.ico
community/megaglest     /usr/share/megaglest/glest.ini
community/megaglest     /usr/share/megaglest/glestkeys.ini
community/megaglest     /usr/share/megaglest/megaglest.ico
community/megaglest     /usr/share/megaglest/servers.ini
community/megaglest     /usr/share/megaglest/start_megaglest_gameserver

Try reinstalling:

sudo pacman -S megaglest
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#3

I already reinstalled using Add/Remove Software twice, no change.
Still installed and doing

pkgfile --update
pkgfile -l megaglest

showed same output as yours.
Then

sudo pacman -S megaglest
resolving dependencies...
looking for conflicting packages...

Packages (5) ftgl-2.4.0-2  libircclient-1.10-3  miniupnpc-2.1.20190408-1  xerces-c-3.2.3-1  megaglest-3.13.0-7

Total Download Size:    5,27 MiB
Total Installed Size:  23,04 MiB

:: Proceed with installation? [Y/n] y
:: Retrieving packages...
 xerces-c-3.2.3-1-x86_64                                    1456,4 KiB  1259 KiB/s 00:01 [####################################################] 100%
 ftgl-2.4.0-2-x86_64                                         317,8 KiB  2,90 MiB/s 00:00 [####################################################] 100%
 libircclient-1.10-3-x86_64                                   75,2 KiB  3,06 MiB/s 00:00 [####################################################] 100%
 miniupnpc-2.1.20190408-1-x86_64                              38,9 KiB  3,80 MiB/s 00:00 [####################################################] 100%
 megaglest-3.13.0-7-x86_64                                     3,4 MiB  3,04 MiB/s 00:01 [####################################################] 100%
(5/5) checking keys in keyring                                                           [####################################################] 100%
(5/5) checking package integrity                                                         [####################################################] 100%
(5/5) loading package files                                                              [####################################################] 100%
(5/5) checking for file conflicts                                                        [####################################################] 100%
(5/5) checking available disk space                                                      [####################################################] 100%
:: Processing package changes...
(1/5) installing xerces-c                                                                [####################################################] 100%
(2/5) installing ftgl                                                                    [####################################################] 100%
(3/5) installing libircclient                                                            [####################################################] 100%
(4/5) installing miniupnpc                                                               [####################################################] 100%
(5/5) installing megaglest                                                               [####################################################] 100%
:: Running post-transaction hooks...
(1/1) Arming ConditionNeedsUpdate...

Seems Add/Remove Software did not install all because

Total Download Size:    5,27 MiB
Total Installed Size:  23,04 MiB

while the total size is 509,4 MB according Add/Remove Software.....?

Working now, thanks.

#4

It is hard to say without seeing the specific output from Add/Remove software. Add/Remove software can install repo packages, AUR packages, snaps and flatpaks so maybe you installed one of those other formats instead of the repo package?

#5

Nope, definitely Official Repositories.
Pamac History in Add/Remove Software:

[2020-07-17T19:25:54+0200] [ALPM] installed megaglest (3.13.0-7)
[2020-07-17T19:25:54+0200] [ALPM] installed miniupnpc (2.1.20190408-1)
[2020-07-17T19:25:54+0200] [ALPM] installed libircclient (1.10-3)
[2020-07-17T19:25:54+0200] [ALPM] installed ftgl (2.4.0-2)
[2020-07-17T19:25:54+0200] [ALPM] installed xerces-c (3.2.3-1)
[2020-07-17T19:24:04+0200] [ALPM] installed pkgfile (21-2)
[2020-07-17T18:58:55+0200] [ALPM] installed megaglest-data (3.13.0-2)
[2020-07-17T18:57:57+0200] [ALPM] removed megaglest-data (3.13.0-2)
[2020-07-16T20:33:30+0200] [ALPM] installed megaglest-data (3.13.0-2)

That last install (in terminal) shows a different version...?

#6

I see what is wrong here.

In Add/Remove Software I installed the one with the shiny icon, MegaGlest (megaglest-data) but i should have installed the other called megaglest.

The icon was confusing making me think "that's the one".

Thanks so far.

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