No setup for crispy heretic on linux

[Justinba007]

When I run crispy setup, it only changes settings for crispy doom. Don't see any options for crispy heretic or hexen. Maybe I am dumb and it's a command when running it or something but I've been googling and can't figure out how to change bindings for crispy heretic on linux.

[fabiangreffrath]

We are not release AppImage files, so what exactly do you mean by "on linux", which distribution are you using?

[Justinba007]

I am using MXLinux, which is debian based I believe. I used sudo apt-get crispy-doom (or whatever the command listed in the read me was) to install it. I got a crispy setup app, but it only seems to edit settings for crispy doom and not crispy heretic.

[Justinba007]

Is it possibly a problem with the repository? Is there supposed to be a separate crispy heretic setup, or is the crispy setup supposed to change settings for both games?

[fabiangreffrath]

Instead of providing a distinct setup executable for each game, the crispy-doom Debian packages contains a single crispy-setup executable that asks which game you want to configure:

[Justinba007]

Well therein lies the issue, it doesn't ask me and just goes straight to crispy doom setup. Does it need to know where the WAD is? I did have to add a command to crispy heretic for it to find my WAD for it.

[fabiangreffrath]

Wow, Crispy Doom 5.12! Where did you dig this up? I'm not even sure this had Heretic support at all. Please upgrade to the latest version. It's available as a Debian package as well.

[fabiangreffrath]

Oh wait, that's the version in Debian stable. Just a bit more than two years old. Hm, could you try to just install the package from Debian testing?

[mikeday0]

I’m fairly certain crispy-setup needs to find the corresponding IWADs before it will give you option to set up a particular game. At least, that’s the case for Chocolate.

[fabiangreffrath]

And then you could try the following: ln -sf /usr/games/crispy-setup ~/crispy-heretic-setup and execute the latter.

[Justinba007]

So I upgraded to the test version which is 6.0.0. It still doesn't ask me on boot however that command does work. Is there a way to tell it where my iwad is permanently, or should I just create a new .desktop with that command?

[mikeday0]

So I upgraded to the test version which is 6.0.0. It still doesn't ask me on boot however that command does work. Is there a way to tell it where my iwad is permanently, or should I just create a new .desktop with that command?

You can put your iwads in a folder that's on the iwad search path. Here's the relevant section of the crispy-doom man page. I personally like to use the DOOMWADDIR and DOOMWADPATH environment variables as they are supported by nearly every sourceport.

[Justinba007]

Tried setting DOOMWADDIR as a variable in my .bashrc, still doesn't find it automatically. Also tried putting the wad in the autoload path in the crispy heretic and crispy doom config files and nothing seems to work. I already have the game working with the -iwad command, and the command for the config above works, so at this point I have everything I need to play the game, it's just slightly inconvenient.

[mikeday0]

Try defining DOOMWADDIR in a .pam_environment file in your home folder. (Note that you can't use ~ in this file, it has to be /home/<user> instead) Log out and log back in. .bashrc only works for terminal sessions, not if you're trying to launch the application from your window manager. Variables in .pam_environment get created any time you log in.

[fabiangreffrath]

Debian has the game-data-packager script that helps to install your WAD files into .deb packages, along with a desktop entry etc. You should probably try it. It also takes care to install the files into the proper location under /usr/share/games/doom.