Chapter 2. Installation

Table of Contents

Windows
Linux
Autopackage
Macintosh
What is installed where
Windows
Linux
Macintosh

Windows

For Windows there is a common installer. Double-click on the downloaded glGo-xxx.exe file and follow the instructions.

You need OpenGL libraries installed, they are included in the standard installation of Windows 98 and newer (not recommended) or come with your hardware driver. See section Requirements for details.

The glGo installer includes the redistributable OpenAL library published by Creative.

[Tip]Tip

If you have trouble getting OpenAL sound working, you can start glGo from a DOS window with: glGo --sdl to use SDL sound, or glGo --nosound to turn sound off.

The installer includes the required SDL, Plib and Python runtime libraries.

If you want to play with GNU Go, get one of the many Windows GNU Go binaries and drop gnugo.exe into the glGo installation folder. You can download a ready-to-run GNU Go for Windows on the glGo webpage, the GNU Go homepage and from many other sites on the Internet.

[Note]Note

If you are running Windows 98 and have trouble with text scrolling in the IGS textareas, replace C:\Program Files\glGo\share\resource.xrs with resource.xrs_win98 found in the same directory. Also try changing the setting for "Force scrolling" in the preferences, see IGS tab.