Update the updater for linux seems broken!

[hobbes1069]

When I run "tdm_update.linux" the first thing it does is make sure it's up to date, which is fine except two things:

 

1. When it relaunches itself, it breaks the connection to the terminal screen so no amount of "^C^C^C^C^C" will stop it.

2. It changes directories somehow because it tries to download the whole mod again in ~/.doom3/darkmod/darkmod.

 

Any ideas?

 

Thanks,

Richard

[hobbes1069]

Scratch that, even when I run it with "--noselfupdate" it still tries to download the whole mod again.

[Tels]

You probably have a very old updater version, these had problems with updating itself. Have you tried to download a recent version from here:

 

http://www.bloodgate...pdate_linux.zip

 

unzip and replace the one you have and then start it again.

 

About the console: Oh, yeah, that bugged me, too. We are short on developers, but you could still create a bug report for it: http://bugs.angua.at/my_view_page.php

 

Edit: I forgot: If you have the directory .~/doom3/darkmod/darkmod and place the updater into .~/doom3/darkmod/, it probably will change one level down (because darkmod/ exists). So delete that directory and try with the newest updater again. That behaviour could be improved, too.

[hobbes1069]

Yup, downloaded that twice. I think the problem is it picks the wrong directory right off the bat so when it doesn't see tdm_update.linux it goes ahead and downloads it again every time.

 

The only fix I've found so far is "tdm_update.linux --target /home/richard/.doom3/darkmod" and it says everything is up to date.

 

I've been good about "rm -rf darkmod" out of ~/.doom3/darkmod/ so I don't think that's the problem...

 

Thanks,

Richard

Edited January 28, 2013 by hobbes1069

[Tels]

Have you placed tdm_update.linux in "~/.doom3/" or in "~/.doom3/darkmod/"? In the latter case I think it again creates "darkmod", changes there and starts again? That's strange as it seems to work for everyone else.

[hobbes1069]

I tried that once just to see what happened but it didn't seem to work right but I can't remember exactly what happened. I'll try again, however, the wiki specifically tells you to download the updater zip into ~/.doom3/darkmod and run it there.

 

Richard