Hatari Ubuntu 16.04 LTS crash

[abyssangel]

Hi guys

This is my first day on the forum!
Please can anyone advise me on why Hatari crashes on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
when i try to open stos basic the game creator disk and yet installed it
via the synaptic package manager?

Thanx!!

[Eero Tamminen]

Does it print anything when you start it from a terminal window?

Btw. Ubuntu 16.04 seems to provide ancient Hatari v1.8.0 version from 2014: https://packages.ubuntu.com/search?keyw ... ite=xenial

Hatari has had a lot of improvements since: https://hatari.tuxfamily.org/doc/release-notes.txt

You might consider using something newer.

[junosix]

I'd suggest upgrading to Ubuntu 20.04 (the 20.04.1 release was out last week), it's a worthwhile update and the version of Hatari that's in the repos is 2.2.1.

[Eero Tamminen]

Building latest Hatari version yourself in the old Ubuntu version shouldn't be too hard either...

1. Install Hatari build dependencies:

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sudo apt install cmake libpng-dev libreadline-dev zlib1g-dev portaudio19-dev libsdl1.2-dev python3

(You may also use "libsdl2-dev", but I think old Ubuntu version of that, and that old Ubuntu version didn't work too well together, they were buggy.)

2. Download Hatari code:

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wget https://download.tuxfamily.org/hatari/2.2.1/hatari-2.2.1.tar.bz2

3. Extract & configure Hatari sources:

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tar xvf hatari-2.2.1.tar.bz2
cd hatari-2.2.1/
mkdir build && cd build
cmake ..

4. Build & install Hatari:

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make
sudo make install

Note: If you later upgrade your Ubuntu installation to latest, it's best to remove the local Hatari installation as its dependencies have changed. Just go to the same "hatari-2.2.1/build" directory, and run there:

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sudo make uninstall

Similar procedure works for latest Hatari git sources, except that you get them with (this obviously needs "git" package to be installed):

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git clone git://git.tuxfamily.org/gitroot/hatari/hatari.git

(You can speed this up / reduce the download size by skipping all the history with "--depth 1" option.)

[simonsunnyboy]

Another point might be a missing or buggy TOS image. Make sure to use a proper TOS or latest EmuTOS. I'm not sure if Ubuntu provides anything sane.

[neanderthal]

Btw. Ubuntu 16.04 seems to provide ancient Hatari v1.8.0 version from 2014

Hmm,I think I downloaded with my even more ancient Ubuntu mate 16 and got version UI 1.2 from 2012.
Is the UI version same as the main engine btw?
And yeah,I like to lazy around with softs when can
Must admit run into some few snags so far,will pop up info if still there after upgrade the old thing..hehe

[Eero Tamminen]

No, Python UI has its own version.