Craig Mayhew’s Blog

If you want to get the STABLE RELEASE of the ubuntu second life viewer, eg the same as the lindens official release then add the following lines to your /etc/apt/sources.list (you will need to do this as root e.g. sudo vim /etc/apt/sources.list):

# Second Life (Open Metaverse viewer)
deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/openmetaverse/ubuntu hardy main
deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/openmetaverse/ubuntu hardy main

Note: If you are not running hardy heron but instead are running a later version of ubuntu then you can change the “hardy” bit to e.g. “intrepid” or “jaunty” and it should work just fine.

Update lists:

sudo apt-get update

Install Second Life:

sudo apt-get install omvviewer

You should then find in the Applications menu, under games is the “Open Metaverse viewer” aka second life!

After installing the latest version of wine via command line and rebooted ubuntu, I was greeted by this message after typing my user/pass and logging in.

“User’s $HOME/.dmrc file is being ignored. This prevents the default sessin and language from being saved. File should be owned by user and have 644 permissions. User’s $HOME directory must be owned by user and not writable by other users.”

I could login in OK, but something was clearly wrong and needed fixing. Change my name to your user name. Here’s how to fix it:

sudo chmod 644 /home/craig/.dmrc
sudo chown craig /home/craig/.dmrc
sudo chmod -R 700 /home/craig
sudo chown -R craig /home/craig

(If you get permission errors when trying this then drop out of the GUI and into recovery mode. This can be done by pressing Esc on the grub screen and selecting the latest recovery version)

I’m not sure precisely why this error message started appearing, but it had something to do with the way I installed the latest wine. I did via command line and not by the package manager.

Here’s an excellent guide to getting VPN connections working in gutsy and hardy.

http://tipotheday.com/2007/11/28/connect-to-windows-vpn-server-pptp-with-ubuntu-gutsy/

Unfortunately when using the network-manager-pptp package there is a bug with one of the network packages that prevents anyone with a static IP from succesfully connecting to a VPN server. When you left click your network icon you should see one of your network connections as selected. If they are all greyed out then you will suffer from this VPN issue. Unfortunately at the time of writing there is no fix other than to set your network connection from a static IP to roaming mode. Some people have suggested that Interpid Ibex will have a fix for this problem.

The bug tracker for this can be found at https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/network-manager/+bug/116274

Does anyone know a better work-around for this?