@Joe: If you are still having problems running X-Plane then send me a
private message and I can help you sort out the problems (just click on
my name and then click "Contact this user" at the top-right.)
This still repros in 10.04. Frankly though this is not an Ubuntu bug,
the bug is in Laminar Research's code. Their code has two issues here:
1) They link against an outdated version of libopenal (libopenal.so.0),
but it so happens that their code works fine with libopenal.so.1 too, so
you can just symlink it to get around the problem as Keot pointed out.
2) Their path parsing code is unnecessarily strict in that it rejects
paths with backslash in them, even though that's perfectly valid (this
bug occurs on Windows too). Only workaround here is to rename the
directory that it's stumbling over so that it doesn't contain
backslashes (for example, if a directory contains a space then they seem
to translate it to an escape sequence involving backslash, and then
their path parser rejects it).
These bugs both repro with the installer for their free demo, so you
don't need to buy the product to repro the bug. But I don't think Ubuntu
should attempt to provide workarounds for broken closed-source code, so
I am marking this as Invalid.
I am sending bug reports to Laminar Research and giving them the URL to
this bug, so hopefully they will fix the problems in a future version.
** Changed in: ubuntu
Status: Incomplete => Invalid
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Installer_Linux on X-Plane 9 will not activate
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