Mine-imator
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stuffbydavid
The Linux Version is not working
The Linux Version is not working. I tested it on 3 distributions; Linux Mint, Ubuntu and Arch Linux. i tried using Lutris but it was so DAMN slow. i guess a flatpak release would be nice.
have you used Wine with it? for me I had no problems under Arch (despite some flickering and slight lag I think)
have you used Wine with it? for me I had no problems under Arch (despite some flickering and slight lag I think) Lutris uses wine. bottles does not even make a bottle for mine-imator.
Install libtiff.so.5 (or another version of libtiff, I think I used a version that was already installed on my computer, such as libtiff.so.6)
Copy the libtiff.so.5 file to /usr/local/bin/Mine-Imator/Data and have it be named accordingly if you're using a different version. This'll work on any version of Linux, because I had to do the same thing on Arch.
No idea why this isn't included in the main installation.
Likely libtiff.so.5 was dropped by the distributions for a reason. Depending on the API change the program needs to be re-built against libtiff.so.6 and the deb package fixed to properly declare the dependency. You could also vendor libtiff.so.5 and ship a flatpak or snap I guess but it depends on who maintains the Linux build.
Finally came back to this,
I'm not surprised libtiff5 got removed in the latest distributions, considering api changes and great improvements as previously said, but even from that standpoint this is weird. Not allowing it entirely by default on the package servers is another problem, considering compatibility. It's not too common to accommodate things that allow older programs to work, but it is still confusing to people installing other stuff using libtiff5 considering mine-imator died in 2020-2021 ish and 6 came soon after. This doesn't seem to be noticed as a critical bug by the dev, maybe because it's just software rot or Linux, but I think they just stopped MI's development entirely in all forms (can't blame them).