[Q] CELstart 1.2 (Linux) install error - Wrong Python version

[Kriss]

Greetings!
Today I tried to install CELstart on Linux (my version is very similar to Slackware 12.1), but after downloading and installing all necessary packages I got this error in installer(translation, maybe not 100% correct):
ERROR: 'Python language runtime' package was found, but version is wrong, necessary version wasn't found.
[IV 2.4 for @python.org/python]
ERROR: An error happened while checking package CELstart
Is there any way to avoid this without downgrading (I think...) Python 2.5.x to 2.4.x?

[Vincent]

Hello,

  please try one of the more recent CELStart 1.2.1 binaries, they were built against python 2.5
http://www.crystalspace3d.org/downloads/contrib/celstart-1.2.1-linux-x86.tar.bz2
http://www.crystalspace3d.org/downloads/contrib/celstart-1.2.1-linux-x86_64.tar.bz2
(use the former if your system is 32bits, the latter if 64bits).
Note that you may have to add the resulting celstart directory to your LD_LIBRARY_PATH environment variable for python support to work.

Downgrading system-wide installed python to 2.4 would be risky to say the least (don't do it !).
However, building it yourself from source and putting it in a non-system directory and using it only as needed should do no harm.
Hopefuly, that won't be needed with these more recent builds.

[Kriss]

Thank you!
BTW how did you find them? o.O

[Vincent]

Thank you!
BTW how did you find them? o.O

Because I made them, and asked to have them available for download on CS website
Thanks for reminding me to update the CELStart download page, I'll do that now...

[Kriss]

That explains much...
BTW

Note that you may have to add the resulting celstart directory to your LD_LIBRARY_PATH environment variable for python support to work.

You meant to create a file like this?

Code:

#!/bin/sh
cd /path/to/crystalspace/
env "LD_LIBRARY_PATH=./" ./celstart_static

[Vincent]

Code:

#!/bin/sh
cd /path/to/crystalspace/
env "LD_LIBRARY_PATH=./" ./celstart_static

Yes, that should work.

[Kriss]

P.S.
Windows version (http://www.crystalspace3d.org/downloads/contrib/celstart-1.2.1-windows.zip)
requires python25.dll and I didn't find it in the archive...

[Vincent]

Windows version (http://www.crystalspace3d.org/downloads/contrib/celstart-1.2.1-windows.zip)
requires python25.dll and I didn't find it in the archive...

Yes, you need to install python 2.5, and possibly add Python install directory (where python25.dll resides) to the PATH.

[Kriss]

Well, yes... I noted this because it needs this file to actually run CELstart 1.2.1 (and doesn't have it out-of-the-box while CELstart 1.2 does have python24.dll included and doesn't require anything).
P.S.
Didn't understand why walktest was there...
I didn't have this dll after installing python 2.5.2... I got it from blender and copied to CELstart directory...
After that everything was fine... Thanks for update.
Hope you don't mind me nitpicking...