Re: Installing TORCS without root privileges

Hi,

after a long struggle, I finally managed to install TORCS in a custom
directory on a Linux *server* (Fedora 13). All files appear to be present (
I compared my custom install to standard install on another Linux machine).
However, when I run the executable (located in ~/myTorcsInstall/bin/) I get
the following error:

freeglut (/home/user/myTorcsInstall/lib/torcs/torcs-bin): failed to open
display ''

Interestingly enough, this also happens when I run TORCS in text-only mode
(i.e. ./torcs -T ). I tried re-installing it, but the problem doesn't seem
to go away. I have the following packages installed:

freeglut-2.6.0-5.fc13.x86_64
freeglut-devel-2.6.0-5.fc13.x86_64

Any suggestions are highly appreciated.



On 26 October 2010 01:07, Lawrence Yao <[email protected]> wrote:

> I think you have to set the following environment variable
>
> export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/path/to/your/plib/folder
>
> then when TORCS runs it looks for any libraries in LD_LIBRARY_PATH folder
> also.
>
>
>
> On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 11:16 PM, Miroslav Batchkarov <[email protected]
> > wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I am trying to install TORCS on a Linux machine, but I have no root
>> access. I used the --prefix option of configure to install it in my home
>> directory, but there is a problem with the dependencies (more specifically
>> plib). Plib was installed in my home directory using the same method, but
>> TORCS doesn't see it. Is there a way I can change the search path to include
>> plib? Should I create a symbolic link to the plib folder and where should I
>> place it? Any assistance is highly appreciated.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Miroslav
>>
>>
>

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