aquashift

I downloaded the uncompiled files for linux, downloaded all the dependencies listed : HERE, and managed to get it to work. If anyone else is using the Kali 2.0 distribution and wants to run 0ad, as of July 18th, 2016, the package that comes with the standard repos will not work. Instead download the game from Debian Jesse distribution site HERE, then follow the instructions on the first link I gave in this post. Thanks.

I'm up-to-date with those packages. I'm gonna try to edit the pyrogenesis file and comment out wherever it says if [ "$(id -u)" == "0" ]; then show_message --error $"Cannot run as root user" exit 1 and comment them out. Cheers

I can confirm I have sound on every app I've tried so far (around 25). I think you are correct in your assumption that the dependencies for Kali are not up-to-date. I am not sure if I have SDL installed because I am ignorant of what it is. I'll research it and get back to you.

I am trying to run 0ad on the Kali 2.0 rolling distribution. The package comes in the official distribution repository. It installs just fine with apt-get install 0ad All the necessary packages install, and the apt-get command exits with no error status. However, typing 0ad anywhere in a terminal will not yield anything, nor is there an init script for 0ad in my /usr/bin folder. To execute the 0ad startup script, I have to go to my /usr/games directory. This works, sort of: cd /usr/games su -c ./0ad aquashift aquashift is a user i created with no root access so I can execute the 0ad startup script. 0ad spits out an error message when I try running it with root privileges. When I do try to initialize 0ad with no root privileges, though, I get this big error log: root@KandA:/usr/games# su -c ./0ad aquashift Cache: 400 (total: 5789) MiB TIMER| InitVfs: 2.47756 ms TIMER| CONFIG_Init: 2.2397 ms connect(2) call to /dev/shm/jack-1000/default/jack_0 failed (err=No such file or directory) attempt to connect to server failed AL lib: (WW) ALCjackBackendFactory_init: jack_client_open() failed, 0x11 AL lib: (WW) alc_initconfig: Failed to initialize backend "jack" No protocol specified xcb_connection_has_error() returned true XDG_RUNTIME_DIR (/run/user/0) is not owned by us (uid 1000), but by uid 0! (This could e g happen if you try to connect to a non-root PulseAudio as a root user, over the native protocol. Don't do that.) No protocol specified AL lib: (WW) alc_initconfig: Failed to initialize backend "pulse" No protocol specified xcb_connection_has_error() returned true XDG_RUNTIME_DIR (/run/user/0) is not owned by us (uid 1000), but by uid 0! (This could e g happen if you try to connect to a non-root PulseAudio as a root user, over the native protocol. Don't do that.) No protocol specified ALSA lib confmisc.c:768:(parse_card) cannot find card '0' ALSA lib conf.c:4292:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_card_driver returned error: No such file or directory ALSA lib confmisc.c:392:(snd_func_concat) error evaluating strings ALSA lib conf.c:4292:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_concat returned error: No such file or directory ALSA lib confmisc.c:1251:(snd_func_refer) error evaluating name ALSA lib conf.c:4292:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_refer returned error: No such file or directory ALSA lib conf.c:4771:(snd_config_expand) Evaluate error: No such file or directory ALSA lib pcm.c:2266:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM default AL lib: (EE) ALCplaybackAlsa_open: Could not open playback device 'default': No such file or directory ERROR: Sound: AlcInit failed, m_Device=0x0 m_Context=0x0 dev_name=OpenAL Soft err=a005 TIMER| shutdown ConfigDB: 1.715 us ERROR: OpenAL error: (null); called from ~CSoundManager (line 277) TIMER| resource modules: 304.678 us TIMER TOTALS (9 clients) ----------------------------------------------------- tc_png_decode: 0 c (0x) tc_dds_transform: 0 c (0x) tc_pool_alloc: 62.053 kc (2x) tc_transform: 0 c (0x) tc_plain_transform: 0 c (0x) tc_ShaderGLSLLink: 0 c (0x) tc_ShaderGLSLCompile: 0 c (0x) tc_ShaderValidation: 0 c (0x) xml_validation: 0 c (0x) ----------------------------------------------------- TIMER| shutdown misc: 272.678 us Cache: 400 (total: 5789) MiB TIMER| InitVfs: 143.171 ms TIMER| CONFIG_Init: 1.63005 ms ALSA lib confmisc.c:768:(parse_card) cannot find card '0' ALSA lib conf.c:4292:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_card_driver returned error: No such file or directory ALSA lib confmisc.c:392:(snd_func_concat) error evaluating strings ALSA lib conf.c:4292:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_concat returned error: No such file or directory ALSA lib confmisc.c:1251:(snd_func_refer) error evaluating name ALSA lib conf.c:4292:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_refer returned error: No such file or directory ALSA lib conf.c:4771:(snd_config_expand) Evaluate error: No such file or directory ALSA lib pcm.c:2266:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM default AL lib: (EE) ALCplaybackAlsa_open: Could not open playback device 'default': No such file or directory ERROR: Sound: AlcInit failed, m_Device=0x0 m_Context=0x0 dev_name=OpenAL Soft err=a005 No protocol specified ERROR: SDL library initialization failed: No available video device terminate called after throwing an instance of 'PSERROR_System_SDLInitFailed' what(): System_SDLInitFailed Aborted I found out that the Jack it's talking about is a sound server used for making real-time audio. There is also a pyrogenesis executable in the same folder, and running it the same way I ran the 0ad file yields the exact same error message verbatim. Can anyone help me please?