Linux Version

Technical Support & Bugs
1

I just want to double check that the Linux version of Vassal is designed to run from an active terminal session.

I have installed it and gotten it to run, but it didn’t install like other packages–rather keeps the terminal locked up until the program is exited.

I’m a newer Linux user, so making sure I’m have it right.

I’m using Linux Mint 20.1 with Cinnamon 4.8.6, Kernel 5.4.0-70-generic

Thank you for having a look.

2

Yes, you are correct, there is no ‘installer’ as such for the Linux version, only for the Windows and Mac versions, and then only because those users are used to having installers.

Vassal can be run from the command line on all platforms.

3

Very nice, I can work with this.

Thank you for confirming.

4

np.

In fact, the ‘other’ package you can download is the ‘base’ package that should ‘theoretically’ run from the command line on every single platform.

The platform specific packages have been tweaked with installers and/or specific versions of Java or packaged libraries that will run on a wider range of machines using those platforms.

5

Thus spake LeroyJS:

I just want to double check that the Linux version of Vassal is designed
to run from an active terminal session.

I have installed it and gotten it to run, but it didn’t install like
other packages–rather keeps the terminal locked up until the program is
exited.

If you want control back in your terminal, run with &, like you would
any other program you want to background.

–
J.

6

Ah, I didn’t know about that trick. Thank you.

7

its very easy to create a Launcher from your desktop for vassal.
You should be able to “right click” on your desktop and the option to create a Launcher should be in the menu
Select the vassal.sh as executable , your vassal directory as working directory

Do not select run in Terminal

Let me know if you need any help.
Dave

8

Hi look What I have found
aur.archlinux.org/packages/vassal/

I think arch linux has a solution for this.

9

Thanks for the link to the Arch package—I hadn’t known there was one.

But how does the Arch package solve the problem? (And to which problem are you referring?)

10

I apologize to you. I misread the topic very wrong so I found this link on the net and shared it. I thought that topic starter has a problem to installing the vassal on Linux version.