Other World Mapper Forum

Heyas, and thanks for reading what I am going to predict is a question I should have figured out. New to Linux and I don't know what to do with the .tar file once I have extracted its contents.

I assume I need to do something with the OWM shared library file? The lack of instructions makes me think that everyone knows how... except me. 8P

Nope, you don't need to do anything special. Just execute the file 'OWM' in the OtherWorldMapper directory created when you extracted the tarball.

(It's been almost a year since the last release, so I may be misremembering, but I'm 95% certain that "untar and execute" is all I had to do to get it to work on Debian 10.)

You may get some errors about missing libraries or old library versions, which you'll need to handle via your linux distribution. I was never able to get OWM working with Debian 9 because some of the graphics libraries were too old in that Debian version, but I've had no problems with it in Debian 10, which is old enough (and Debian updates slowly enough) that I would expect the current release of any other distribution to also have everything you need.

You are right. I was making it harder than it was. Which is how I like to roll.

From terminal I just got into the OWM directory and executed ./OWM and there it is.

Thank you so much

Thank both for the question and the reply

We'll add better instructions with the upcoming release.... which will be soon now for real .

Working through two stubborn Linux issues right now and we'll be finished.

- Alejandro